The UK branch of Warner Home Entertainment has officially announced and detailed its upcoming Double Play edition of director Tim Burton's Dark Shadows (2012), starring Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer and Eva Green. The release will hit retail shelves on October 15th.
Note: Retailer HMV will also offer an exclusive SteelBook release. See our listing here.
Tim Burton directs this fantasy drama-horror based on the cult 1960s television series. When playboy Barnabas Collins (Depp) breaks the heart of the beautiful Angelique Brouchard (Green), an old family curse is released as Angelique, a witch, turns Barnabas into a vampire before burying him alive. Two centuries later, Barnabas is inadvertently freed and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. Returning to his former home at Collinwood Manor, he finds his estate in ruins and the dysfunctional dregs of his family in tatters. Matriarch Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (Pfeiffer) has enlisted the services of live-in psychiatrist Dr Julia Hoffman (Helena Bonham Carter) to help with her numerous family problems - but between Elizabeth's loser brother, Roger Collins (Jonny Lee Miller), her rebellious teenage daughter, Carolyn Stoddard (Chloe Moretz), and Roger's precocious 10-year-old son, David Collins (Gulliver McGrath), Dr Hoffman has certainly got her work cut out.
Special Features
Maximum Movie Mode featuring:
Becoming Barnabas - It takes more than just a set of prosthetic fangs! Get the scoop from directly from Johnny Depp on his reimagining of this infamous and undead cult character.
Welcome to Collinsport! - Explore every strange nook and peculiar cranny of the most spectacularly detailed city to never exist!
A Melee of Monstrous Proportions - Join the fight and experience the thrilling final battle sequence in a way that only Tim Burton and Johnny Depp could imagine.
Angelique: A Witch Scorned - Johnny Depp and Eva Green reveal the lurid details of their character's centuries old lascivious and tumultuous relationship.
Reliving a Decade - From groovy bell bottoms to classic rock & roll, strut through the Collinsport of the 70s and discover the topsy-turvy world that Barnabas finds himself in after centuries in the grave.
Dark Shadowy Secrets - Watch out for exploding buildings and all manner of bizarre, supernatural occurrences as Tim Burton's spectacular props and special effects wizards bring this eccentric world to crazy life.
The Collinses: Every Family Has Its Demons - Become scarily familiar with this creepy cast of quirky characters as Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and their co-stars reveal their unique working relationship.
Alice Cooper Rocks Collinsport! - Shock rock the night away with the master of musical horror himself, Alice Cooper, as Johnny Depp and the cast invite him to rock the roof off of Collinsport Manor.
Dark Shadows: The Legen Bites Back - Uncover the method behind Tim Burton's madness as he twists and tweaks his favorite classic movie monsters for the gothic universe of Dark Shadows