Interview with a vampire Tim Barton in his unique and unique style filmed “Dark Shadows” in the form of a chic black comedy about the confrontation between a vampire and a witch. The resulting product resembles a mixture of “The Addams Family” and “Beattlejuice”, with unusually bright casting and equally amazing characters!
However, such a picture could benefit from being generally without banter and comedy, manifesting itself really a horror film in the style of Sleepy Hollow, but it would be a completely different movie. The comedy of Barton’s Shadows is clearly manifested even in the prologue itself, when the capital letter of the demon Mephistopheles is denoted by the “McDonald’s” corporate letter “M”. Such irony gives a hint of what the picture will turn out to be in the future and does not disappoint expectations.
A comedy of horrors and a “horror comedy” to throw from tense horror to wildly funny situations, season humor with murders, and complement horror with humor. The director achieved the perfect balance without turning into cold-blooded cynicism, without trying to produce genre revolutions, and without sliding into a parody. The creepy main villain performed by Eva Green contrasts with the wildly funny heroes Helena Bonham-Carter and Jackie Earl Haley.
All three heads outplayed the young Chloe Moretz, with the most amazing and stunning character of the film, presenting the main final surprise of the picture. One of her dances in the living room is already worth all the dialogue and transfusion scenes, gatherings with hippies and kavardak on the ceilings with the witch Green. And the appearance of Ellis Cooper and the abundance of jokes around him can not be ignored!
Depp vampire is still worthy of a much stronger reincarnation. His character is not at all suitable to compete with the images of Cruise and Pitt in “Interview with the Vampire”, and I would like to see a much more non-comic and deep study of this image from Johnny. So this Mr. Collins is not much different from Wonka or the Hatter, and in the daytime scenes generally insanely resembles Michael Jackson in sunglasses.
Still, the character came out successful and in some ways even contradictory. Standing up for his family, not without a sense of love, while cold-blooded dealing with workers or a gang of hippies. Johnny Depp’s signature twists in the image should definitely like his fan(s) and replenish his collection of movie freaks.
Otherwise, the film is worthy of praise, both for the study of the entourage and images, and for the visual design with special effects. Especially I want to note the house that comes to life from the inside, although these scenes with scenery and statues could be more, for greater effect and entertainment of the finale.
But the humorous part almost always, one way or another, concerns the sexual aspects of life and in most cases looks too vulgar. The villain hides an uncompromising vampire in a coffin, necessarily taking off her panties before that and putting them on his face, the younger brother will during lunch lay the teenage girl with the phrases “she touches herself and murmurs like a kitten”, and everything in the spirit. The picture would have to get a censor rating R and turn to its fullest in all directions, from the bloody carnage at the campfire, left behind, to the naked Eva Green, regularly trying to seduce the main character with varying success.
It turned out a picture for which the phrase “Tim Barton’s film” in itself will be the perfect definition. To this you can add the word “branded”, since this is the style of the master director that is recognizable and beloved by many viewers. In addition, good vampire movies have become a huge rarity, so “Dark Shadows” should not be missed in any case!
8 IZ 10
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