Title: Not Much Shadow
Product review: "Dark Shadows" was a soap opera back in the late 1960's whose characters had skeletons in their closet, literally. The original show had one of the first sympathetic portrayals of a vampire who wasn't all bad. The movie had promise with the campy acting, good atmosphere background music, and nice visuals. BUT, the characters were not treated well - the witch became a Superman arch-villain, the doctor (my favorite from the original TV show) was treated shabbily and opportunities for a real plot were just wasted. Changes from the original storyline didn't make sense and the ending of the movie was utterly forgettable. The filmmakers could have had a lot of fun with Barnabas' angst in not wanting to kill people and the whole haunted, dysfunctional family. Too bad, if they had done it right, they could have made more movies starring the Collins Family.
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