Monday, March 19, 2012

Care for a Bite?

I don’t think I have ever seen a full episode of the supernatural-flavored, 1966-1971 ABC-TV soap opera Dark Shadows. However, the trailer for Tim Burton’s more comedic big-screen interpretation of that series concept (starring Johnny Depp and scheduled for release this coming May 11) looks, well, kind of fun. Watch it here.

2 comments:

Robin at CrimeTimePreview said...

I've watched bits of the original on YouTube – camp or what! But, you're right, Tim B's movie looks great fun.

Matt said...

Angela and I have been watching the original series for over a year. At 20 minutes a pop, they're like candy. It's exasperatingly bad TV, but strangely compelling too if you can ignore the botched lines, the primitive effects and the shadow of the microphone moving around or the cameraman bumping into the furniture. After each episode we gag and say we'll never do it again, but we keep doing it. Burton's looks like a great romp, but it will be too polished...