Title: Dark Shadows Directed By: Tim Burton Starring: Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter, Eva Green, Jackie Earle Haley, Jonny Lee

PG-13 • 1 hour 53 min • 2012

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Dark Shadows (Warner Bros.) was probably a beneficiary of the low expectations I brought into it. Tim Burton adapts a late-'60s/early '70s TV soap...

Tim Burton and Johnny Depp's latest collaboration adapts the vintage Gothic soap opera, focusing on aristocratic vampire Barnabas Collins as a fish out of water in the 1970s. NPR's Bob Mondello says that except for Depp's clever turn as Barnabas, there isn't much to sink your teeth into.

Review: 'Dark Shadows' is a lesson in Tim Burton's quirks

Sometimes it might be best to let sleeping vampires lie.

Dark Shadows This bizarre but weirdly bloodless retro-camp exercise is neither funny nor eerie enough to seduce the uninitiated.

Not for the first time, Johnny Depp is all dressed up — this time as an elegant 19th-century vampire unleashed in 1972 — with nowhere particularly coherent...

The film recalls bloated misfires of decades past like The Witches of Eastwick and Dracula.