Dark Shadows Movie Review (spoiler free)
By Jessica Dwyer

(reposted from www.fangirlmag.com)

I don’t think anyone had higher expectations than me for Tim Burton’s new film Dark Shadows. When many fans started to immediately bash the film after the first trailers release I still defended it. The reasons for this were many. The main ones being that I believed in Burton and Depp as fans of the original material. I can’t think of any other director in the industry right now who could do right by the creepy and strange dark soap opera that Dan Curtis made.

Whoever took it on to make a feature film in this day and age would have a hard time recreating the series. Dark Shadows always felt surreal, like a reality skewered from our own....

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Edited:5/3/2012 10:45:18 PM (sheep4)

Hi Hounds,

I just wanted to clarify an omission/misprint in the Dark Shadows film article in issue #34. 

Dark Shadows will be released on May 11th of this year. 

Thank you and go see Dark Shadows when it hits theaters and IMAX on May 11th!!

 Jessica

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