Dark Shadows is a 2012 American comedy horror film based on the 1966–1971 gothic horror soap opera of the same name. The film is directed by Tim Burton and stars Johnny Depp as Barnabas Collins, a 200-year-old vampire, and Michelle Pfeiffer as his cousin Elizabeth Collins Stoddard, a reclusive matriarch of the Collins family. It was released on the evening of May 10, 2012, opening fully the following day in the United States. In 1760, Joshua and Naomi Collins sail from Liverpool to North America. They set up a fishing port in Maine called Collinsport, and also build Collinwood Manor.... Their son, Barnabas , grows up to be a wealthy playboy in the town. He breaks the heart of one of their servants, Angelique Bouchard , who is a witch and kills his parents in revenge and curses his family. He then studies dark magic to prove Angelique is in fact a witch, falling in love with Josette du Pres in the meantime. Angelique, in an act of jealousy, puts a spell on Josette, which forces her to leap to her death from a nearby cliff called Widow's Peak. Barnabas runs after Josette but he arrives too late.
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