Dark Shadows is a 2012 dark fantasy film based on the gothic television soap opera of the same name. Directed by Tim Burton, the film stars Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter, Eva Green, Jackie Earle Haley, Jonny Lee Miller, Chloë Grace Moretz, and Bella Heathcote in a dual role. Christopher Lee has a small role in the film, his 200th film appearance and his fifth and final appearance in a Burton film. Jonathan Frid, star of the original Dark Shadows series, makes a cameo, which was his final screen appearance, as he died shortly before the release of the film. One of the film s producers, Richard D. Zanuck, died two months after its release.

The film had a limited release on May 10, 2012, and was officially released the following day in North America. It performed poorly at the United States box office, but did well in foreign markets. Reviews for the film were mixed; critics praised its visual style and consistent humor, but felt it lacked a focused or substantial plot and developed characters.

Plot

In 1760, young Barnabas Collins and his wealthy family set sail from Liverpool to the New World, where they establish the town of Collinsport in Maine and construct Collinwood Mansion, their grand estate. Fifteen years later, Barnabas spurns the advances of his servant, Angelique, who is secretly a witch. In response, she murders his parents using magic and curses Barnabas so that all he loves will die .

Barnabas becomes obsessed with dark magic to prove his parents were murdered. Under Angelique s spell, his fiancée Josette jumps to her death from a cliff called Widow s Hill . He throws himself after her, but survives, further cursed by Angelique to eternal suffering as a vampire. Angelique turns the town against Barnabas and gets him buried alive.

In 1972, almost 200-years-later, Maggie Evans, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Josette, travels to Collinwood to fill the position of governess. She assumes the alias Victoria Winters and meets the dysfunctional current-residents of Collinwood: Collins matriarch Elizabeth and her teenage daughter Carolyn; Elizabeth s brother Roger and his young son David, who believes he is being visited by his late-mother s ghost; and a live-in alcoholic psychiatrist, Dr. Julia Hoffman. That night, Victoria is visited by the ghost of Josette.

A construction crew building a McDonald s unwittingly frees Barnabas from his tomb. He apologetically feeds on their blood and then makes his way to Collinwood, perplexed by the modern-day technology and fashion he encounters.

At Collinwood, Barnabas hypnotizes the caretaker, Willie, into his service and reveals to Elizabeth that the legends of the family curse and her long-lost ancestor are true. He asks to rejoin the family and shows Elizabeth the manor s secret passages and hidden treasure. Though wary, she introduces him to the family as a distant relative from England.

While adjusting to modern life and falling for Victoria, Barnabas uses his powers of persuasion and the family treasure to restore both the Collins Canning Company and Collinwood to their former glory. Dr. Hoffman learns of his true nature and offers to try to turn him mortal again. They start by removing his blood and giving him transfusions of human blood.

Angelique, having survived through the centuries and now the owner of the dominant Angel Bay Seafood, is still in love with Barnabas. To protect Victoria, he gives in to Angelique s lust and they have sex in her office, but, afterwards, a remorseful Barnabas again rejects Angelique.

Barnabas hosts a happening at Collinwood for the entire town, with Alice Cooper as entertainment. He finds Victoria alone, who reveals she has seen the ghost of Josette her entire life; her parents committed her to an asylum as a result, but she eventually escaped and Josette directed her to Collinwood. She returns Barnabas affections and they kiss, to Angelique s dismay.

More eager than ever to be human, Barnabas goes to Dr. Hoffman s office, where he discovers her transfusing his blood into herself to try to stop her aging. He drains all the blood from her body, and he and Willie dump her at sea, telling everyone she went away on business.

Barnabas confronts the greedy Roger and offers him a choice: to become a better father to David, or to leave Collinwood with enough money to live out his life elsewhere; Roger chooses the latter. Heartbroken, David is nearly struck by a falling disco ball, but Barnabas saves him with supernatural speed and catches fire in the daylight, revealing himself as a vampire. David, Carolyn, and Victoria are shocked.

Desperate, Barnabas meets with Angelique, who goads him into confessing to his murders and demands he join her as her paramour. He refuses, so she again traps him in a coffin. Angelique destroys the Collins’ cannery and, with a recording of Barnabas confession, rallies the town against the family.

David frees Barnabas, who confronts Angelique at Collinwood. They battle, and the townspeople see that she is a witch. Elizabeth and Carolyn, who reveals herself to be a werewolf, join the fight, and Angelique enchants the house to turn against the Collins family. She admits she was responsible for the werewolf that bit Carolyn as an infant, and for the deaths of David s mother and Barnabas parents. The ghost of David s mother appears and incapacitates Angelique, and the family escape the burning manor. Angelique offers Barnabas her heart, which crumbles as she dies.

Barnabas races to Widow s Hill and finds Victoria, who says there is only one way for them to be together. When he refuses to turn her into a vampire, she steps off the cliff. He leaps after her, biting her neck on the way down. On the rocks, he holds her in his arms. Now a vampire, she awakens as Josette. As they kiss, a voiceover from Barnabas declares that his curse is now lifted.

Though Barnabas thinks he is finally safe, Dr. Hoffman, bound and on the sea floor, opens her eyes.

Cast

• Johnny Depp as Barnabas Collins, an 18th-century vampire who awakens in 1972.Justin Tracy as Young Barnabas
• Justin Tracy as Young Barnabas
• Eva Green as Angelique Angie Bouchard, a vengeful witch who plots a vendetta against Barnabas and his family. She is still alive in the 20th century, having posed as five successive generations of women who own a seafood business called Angel Bay, which has outcompeted the Collins family business. Her face and body begin to crack over the course of the film, resembling a porcelain doll. Raffey Cassidy as Young Angelique
• Raffey Cassidy as Young Angelique
• Bella Heathcote as Victoria Winters / Josette du Pres. Heathcote plays both Josette, Barnabas 18th-century love, and Victoria, David s governess and Barnabas 20th-century love-interest. In the end of the film she becomes Josette and a vampiress when Barnabas followed & bit her on the neck when she fell off the cliff. Victoria and Maggie Evans roles from the original series were combined for the film, and, in her first scene in the movie, Maggie adopts the alias of Victoria Winters , inspired by a poster on the train to Collinsport advertising winter sports in Victoria, British Columbia. Alexia Osborne as Young Victoria
• Alexia Osborne as Young Victoria
• Michelle Pfeiffer as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard, the family matriarch.
• Helena Bonham Carter as Dr. Julia Hoffman, the family s vain and often inebriated live-in psychiatrist, who was hired to treat David s trauma over his mother s death.
• Jonny Lee Miller as Roger Collins, Elizabeth s ne er-do-well brother.
• Chloë Grace Moretz as Carolyn Stoddard, Elizabeth s rebellious 15-year-old daughter, who is revealed to be a werewolfess late in the film.
• Gully McGrath as David Collins, Roger s precocious 10-year-old son, who is regularly visited by the ghost of his dead mother.
• Jackie Earle Haley as Willie Loomis, caretaker of Collinwood Mansion.
• Ray Shirley as Mrs. Sarah Johnson, Collinwood s elderly maid.
• Christopher Lee as Silas Clarney, a king of the fishermen who spends a lot of time in the local pub, The Blue Whale.
• Alice Cooper as himself
• Ivan Kaye as Joshua Collins, the father of Barnabas Collins.
• Susanna Cappellaro as Naomi Collins, the mother of Barnabas Collins.
• Josephine Butler as Laura Collins, David s mother, whose ghost has been appearing to her son since she drowned in a shipwreck caused by Angelique.
• William Hope as Sheriff Bill (credited as Sheriff), the sheriff of Collinsport.
• Guy Flanagan as Bearded Hippie
• Sophie Kennedy Clark as Hippie Chick 1
• Hannah Murray as Hippie Chick 2
• Shane Rimmer as Board Member 1
• Jonathan Frid as Guest #1

At the San Diego Comic-Con 2011, it was confirmed that four actors from the original series would appear in the film. In June 2011, Jonathan Frid, Lara Parker, David Selby, and Kathryn Leigh Scott all spent three days at Pinewood Studios to film cameo appearances. They all appeared as guests during the ball held at Collinwood Manor and can be seen arriving as a group. Frid died in April 2012, making this his final film appearance.

Production

In July 2007, Warner Bros. acquired film rights for the gothic soap opera Dark Shadows from the estate of its creator, Dan Curtis. Johnny Depp had a childhood obsession with Dark Shadows, calling it a dream to portray Barnabas Collins, and ended up persuading Tim Burton to direct. The project s development was delayed by the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. After the strike was resolved, Burton was attached to direct the film.

By 2009, screenwriter John August was writing a screenplay for Dark Shadows. In 2010, author and screenwriter Seth Grahame-Smith replaced August, but, on the finished film, August did receive story credit with Smith for his contributions to the film.

Filming began in May 2011. Production took place entirely in England, at both Pinewood Studios and on location. Depp attempted to emulate the rigidity and elegance of Jonathan Frid s original portrayal, but also drew inspiration from Max Schreck s performance in Nosferatu.

A number of Burton s frequent collaborators worked on the film s crew, among them production designer Rick Heinrichs, costume designer Colleen Atwood, editor Chris Lebenzon, and composer Danny Elfman. French cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel—known for his work in Amélie, A Very Long Engagement and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince—also worked on the project.

Music

Score

The film was scored by long-time Burton collaborator Danny Elfman. An album featuring 21 tracks of compositions from the film by Elfman was released on May 8, 2012.

Track listing

Dark Shadows: Original Score

No.	Title	Length
1.	Dark Shadows Prologue (Uncut)	7:52
2.	Resurrection	2:54
3.	Vicki Enters Collinwood	1:21
4.	Deadly Handshake	2:14
5.	Shadows (Reprise)	1:08
6.	Is It Her?	0:43
7.	Barnabas Comes Home	4:18
8.	Vicki s Nightmare	1:26
9.	Hypno Music	0:47
10.	Killing Dr. Hoffman	1:14
11.	Dumping the Body	0:58
12.	Roger Departs	2:33
13.	Burn Baby Burn / In-Tombed	2:49
14.	Lava Lamp	2:17
15.	The Angry Mob	4:40
16.	House of Blood	3:38
17.	Final Confrontation	2:20
18.	Widows Hill (Finale)	3:47
19.	The End? (Uncut)	2:42
20.	More the End?	1:55
21.	We Will End You!	1:09

Soundtrack

Dark Shadows: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Soundtrack album by Various artists
Released	May 8, 2012
Recorded	1966–2012
Genre	Progressive rock, psychedelic rock, hard rock, pop, R&B, orchestral
Length	44:43
Label	WaterTower Music, Sony Music
Producer	Various, Tim Burton
Dark Shadows music chronology
Dark Shadows: Original Score (2012) Dark Shadows: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2012)

A number of contemporaneous early-1970s rock and pop songs appear in the film, along with others from earlier and slightly later. These include Nights in White Satin by The Moody Blues, I m Sick of You by Iggy Pop, Season of the Witch by Donovan, Top of the World by The Carpenters, You re the First, the Last, My Everything by Barry White and Get It On by T. Rex. Alice Cooper makes a cameo in the film and sings No More Mr. Nice Guy and Ballad of Dwight Fry . A cover of the Raspberries song Go All the Way by The Killers plays over the end credits.

Dark Shadows: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack was released on May 8, 2012, as a download and on various dates as a CD, such as on May 22 as an import in the United States and on May 25 in Australia. It features 11 songs, among them two score pieces by Danny Elfman and a recitation by Depp as Barnabas of several lines from The Joker by Steve Miller Band. Songs not featured on the soundtrack that are in the film include Superfly by Curtis Mayfield, Crocodile Rock by Elton John and Paranoid by Black Sabbath.

Track listing

Dark Shadows: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

No.	Title	Artist	Length
1.	Nights in White Satin (1967)	The Moody Blues	4:26
2.	Dark Shadows – Prologue	Danny Elfman	3:56
3.	I m Sick of You (1972/1973)	Iggy Pop	6:52
4.	Season of the Witch (1966)	Donovan	4:56
5.	Top of the World (1972)	The Carpenters	3:01
6.	You re the First, the Last, My Everything (1974)	Barry White	4:35
7.	Bang a Gong (Get It On) (1971)	T. Rex	4:26
8.	No More Mr. Nice Guy (1972/1973)	Alice Cooper	3:08
9.	Ballad of Dwight Fry (1971)	Alice Cooper	6:36
10.	The End?	Danny Elfman	2:30
11.	The Joker (original song from 1973)	Johnny Depp	0:17

Reception

Box office

The film grossed $79.7 million in the United States and Canada, and $165.8 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $245.5 million.

For a Burton film, Dark Shadows achieved below-average domestic box office takings, with many commentators attributing that to the domination of The Avengers. It made $29.7 million in its first weekend, then $12.8 million in its second.

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, Dark Shadows holds an approval rating of 35% based on 259 reviews, with an average rating of 5.30/10; the site s critical consensus reads: The visuals are top notch but Tim Burton never finds a consistent rhythm, mixing campy jokes and gothic spookiness with less success than other Johnny Depp collaborations. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 55 out of 100, based on 42 critics, indicating mixed or average reviews . Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of B− on an A+ to F scale.

Some critics felt the film lacked a focused or consistent plot or genre (as either horror, comedy or drama), pointing to problems with Grahame-Smith s script, and that some jokes fell flat. Some claimed that Burton and Depp s collaborations had become tired. Many of these same critics, however, noted that this film s visual style was impressive.

Positive reviewers, on the other hand, opined that the film successfully translated the mood of the soap opera and that its 70s culture pastiche worked to its advantage. There was also acclaim for the characters and actors, most notably Depp as Barnabas—who several critics said was the stand-out character due to his humorous culture shock—and Pfeiffer.

Roger Ebert gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of four and said: offers wonderful things, but they aren t what s important. It s as if Burton directed at arm s length, unwilling to find juice in the story. He went on to note that Much of the amusement comes from Depp s reactions to 1970s pop culture, and concluded that the film begins with great promise, but then the energy drains out . Manohla Dargis, in a mostly-positive review written for The New York Times, said that the film isn t among Mr. Burton s most richly realized works, but it s very enjoyable, visually sumptuous and, despite its lugubrious source material and a sporadic tremor of violence, surprisingly effervescent, and opined that Burton s gift for deviant beauty and laughter has its own liberating power.

Rolling Stone s Peter Travers gave the film a mixed two-and-a-half stars out of four, claiming that After a fierce and funny start, Dark Shadows simply spins its wheels, and adding that the pleasures of Dark Shadows are frustratingly hit-and-miss. In the end, it all collapses into a spectacularly gorgeous heap. In The Washington Post, Ann Hornaday dismissed the film, awarding it just one-and-a-half stars out of four and explaining that Burton s mash-up of post- 60s kitsch and modern-day knowingness strikes a chord that is less self-aware than fatally self-satisfied. Dark Shadows doesn t know where it wants to dwell: in the eerie, subversive penumbra suggested by its title or in playful, go-for-broke camp.

Richard Corliss of Time pointed out that s affection is evident, and his homage sometimes acute, and reasoned: All right, so Burton has made less a revival of the old show than a hit-or-miss parody pageant, but praised the star power of the film, relenting that attention must be paid to movie allure, in a star like Depp and his current harem. Angelique may be the only demonic among the women here, but they re all bewitching. Peter Bradshaw, in the British newspaper The Guardian, weighed the film in a mixed write-up, giving it three stars out of five, and pointing out his feeling that the Gothy, jokey darkness of Burton s style is now beginning to look very familiar; he has built his brand to perfection in the film marketplace, and it is smarter and more distinctive than a lot of what is on offer at the multiplex, but there are no surprises. There are shadows, but they conceal nothing.

Accolades

Award	Category	Recipient	Result	Ref.
Young Artist Award	Best Performance in a Feature Film – Supporting Young Actor	Gully McGrath	Nominated
Kid s Choice Award	Favorite Movie Actor	Johnny Depp	Won
Saturn Awards	Best Performance by a Younger Actor	Chloë Grace Moretz	Nominated
	Best Production Design	Rick Heinrichs	Nominated
BMI Film & TV Awards	Best Film Music	Danny Elfman	Won
British Society of Cinematographers	GBCT Operators Award	Des Whelan	Nominated
Empire Awards	Best Horror Film		Nominated
Golden Trailer Awards	Best Animation/Family Poster	Warner Bros. Ignition Creative	Nominated
	Best Summer 2012 Blockbuster Poster	Warner Bros. Ignition Creative	Nominated
	Best Wildposts	Warner Bros. Ignition Creative	Nominated
Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards	Best Film	Tim Burton	Nominated
The Operators Award	Feature Film	Des Whelan	Nominated

Home media

Dark Shadows was released on both Blu-ray and DVD in the United States on October 2, 2012 (the date confirmed by the official Dark Shadows Facebook page and the official Dark Shadows website). It was released on both formats several days earlier in Australia; in stores on September 24, and online on September 26. The film was released on home video in the UK on October 15.

The DVD includes just one featurette, The Collinses: Every Family Has Its Demons , while the Blu-ray contains a total of nine short featurettes and six deleted scenes. Several worldwide releases of both the DVD and Blu-ray contain an UltraViolet digital copy of the film.

Possible sequel

In December 2011, Pfeiffer told MTV that she was hoping there would be sequels to the film. On May 8, 2012, various tabloids, like Variety, reported that Warner Bros. may have wanted to turn Dark Shadows into a film franchise. On the same day, Collider mentioned that the ending lends itself to a possible sequel. When Burton was asked if he thought this could be a possible start to a franchise, he replied: No. Because of the nature of it being like a soap opera, that was the structure. It wasn t a conscious decision. First of all, it s a bit presumptuous to think that. If something works out, that s one thing, but you can t ever predict that. had more to do with the soap opera structure of it.

Year	2012
ReleaseDate	2012-05-11
RuntimeMins	113
RuntimeStr	1h 53min
Plot	An imprisoned vampire, Barnabas Collins, is set free and returns to his ancestral home, where his dysfunctional descendants are in need of his protection.
Awards	Awards, 2 wins & 13 nominations
Directors	Tim Burton
Writers	Seth Grahame-Smith, John August, Dan Curtis
Stars	Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Eva Green
Produced by	Bruce Berman, Brenda Berrisford, Christi Dembrowski, Johnny Depp, Katterli Frauenfelder, Derek Frey, Nigel Gostelow, Tim Headington, David Kennedy, Graham King, Chris Lebenzon, Richard D. Zanuck
Music by	Danny Elfman
Cinematography by	Bruno Delbonnel
Film Editing by	Chris Lebenzon
Casting By	Susie Figgis
Production Design by	Rick Heinrichs
Art Direction by	Neal Callow, Dean Clegg, John Dexter, Christian Huband, Jason Knox-Johnston, Chris Lowe, Richard Selway, Phil Sims
Set Decoration by	John Bush, Angela Kyriacou, Greer Whitewick
Costume Design by	Colleen Atwood
Makeup Department	Natalie Abizadeh, Natasha Allegro, Karen Asano-Myers, Victoria Bancroft, Nicola Beales, Emmy Beech, Nikki Belding, Steve Buscaino, Michael Byrne, Steven Byrne, Orla Carrol, Sharon Colley, Helen Conroy, Robb Crafer, Benjamin Crean, Sarah Elizabeth Daily, Sally Rose Davidson, Tamsin Dorling Barbosa, John Eldred-Tooby, Amanda Louise Ellis, Kathryn Fa, Dan Frye, Paul Gooch, Joel Harlow, Carol Hemming, Charlie Hounslow, Andy Hunt, Soleil Jackson, Duncan Jarman, Catriona Johnstone, John Kavanagh, James Kernot, Sophia Knight, Joseph Koniak, Ailsa Lawson, Sebastian Lochmann, Louise Luxton, Leonard MacDonald, Kristyan Mallett, Eva Marieges Moore, Grace McComisky, Madlen Mierzwiak, Alice Moore, Laura Morse, Chloe Muton-Phillips, Sue Newbould, John Nolan, Vanya Pell, Marc Pilcher, Spencer Robertson, Alex Rouse, Amanda Rudkin, Debbi Salmon, Thomas Smith, Ronnie Specter, Malwina Suwinska, Liz Tagg, Julia Vernon, Eloise Waymouth, Georgie Whittle, Natalie Wickens, Faye Windridge, Pippa Woods, Evie Wray, Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou
Production Management	Gary Bunn, Victoria Cadiou, Elizabeth Miller Gavcus, Mikhail Janowski, Marianne Jenkins, Olivia Lyne, Siobhan Lyons, Jessie Thiele Schroeder, Luke Stevenson
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Sound Department	Fletcher Alliston, Dafydd Archard, Simon Bennett-Leyh, Jeremy Brown, Peter Burgis, Joe Carey, Curt Cash, Tony Dawe, Andie Derrick, Glen Gathard, Arthur Graley, Tom Johnson, Gerard Loret, Richard Lovell, Ben Meechan, Zak Melemendjian, Dan Morgan, Pip Norton, Ian Sands, Tom Sayers, Michael Semanick, Julian Slater, Barnaby Smyth, Jason Stevens, Keenan Wyatt, Denise Yarde, Luke Brown, Samir Foco, Peter Gleaves, Simon Hill, Richard Lovell, Markus Moll, Jordan O Neill, Drew Oliveras, Steve Pritchard, Andrew Stirk, David Turner, Keenan Wyatt
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Mills, Tom Mitchell, Christina Mitrotti, Jambunatha Mn, Farhad Mohasseb, Daniel Moore, Marguerite Moreau de Lizoreux, Mélanie Moulin, Martin Mueller, Mike Mulock, Nick Murphy, Sandra Murta, Nandhakishore, Charlotte Nelson, Shaan Nelson, Elliot Newman, Dillan Nicholls, Tommy Nikjoo, Vasko Nikolovski, Jamie Nimmo, Reika Nixon, Stephen Nixon, Donal Nolan, Erik Nordby, Matthew Novak, Brian Nugent, Sean O Hara, Cem Olcer, Daniele Orsetti, Guillaume Palegie, Suneel Kumar Palla, Sanjay Panchal, Gurpreet Singh Pannu, Peter Panton, Stuart Partridge, Anthony Peck, Vasho Pekar, Alexis Peraste, Alexis Perrin, Ben Perrott, Richard Perry, Vesna Peshevska, Christine Peterson, Kalle Peterson, Frank Petit, Christine Petrov, Dojchin Petrovski, Goran Petrushevski, Chris Petts, Chi Pham, Jacquelyn Jac Piette, Massimiliano Piscozzi, Camil Planella, Jason Pomerantz, Felix Pomeranz, Andrew Poole, Gligor Postolovski, Tim Pounds-Cornish, Kukal Prasanth, Simon Priestman, Rajasekar Prince, Howard Protheroe, Esdras Prudente, James Purdy, Paul Raeburn, Simon Rafin, Preetham Raj, Ramkumar Raju, Clement Rambach, Michael Ranalletta, Edward Randolph, Jennah Rasmussen, Julien Record, Tom Reed, Jon Reid, Kristian Rejek, Clement Renaudin, Martin Reneleau, Eddy Richard, Sullivan Richard, Geoffroi Ridel, Dominic Ridley, Benjy Riehl, Misho Ristov, Liz Roberts, Andy Rolfe, Steve Ross, Isabelle Rousselle, David Rouxel, Jean-Marc Rulier, Peter Salter, Lucas Salton, Mohit Salunke, Jerome Samson, Sribalaji Santharam, Jeremy Sawyer, Federico Scarbini, Tom Schwarz, Leanna Vaiman Scott, Simon Scott, Steve Scott, Lucy Seaborne, Adrien Servadio, Sajith Sethumadhavan, Joseph Severn, Rasoul Shafeazadeh, Swati Shamsundar Malu, Madhu Sharan, Rahul Sharma, Ceylan Shevket, Prashant Shitole, Randal Shore, Naveen Shukla, Davide Sibilia, Natalie Silver, Elena Simonovska, Tom Sinden, Ashwin Singh, David Sjodin, Christian Sjostedt, Klaus Skovbo, Laurel A. Smith, Rupert Smith, Nick Soothill, Reina Sparks, Sreevinod, Sheldon Stopsack, Mirek Suchomel, Vinayaga Sundar, Romain Sunier, Richard Surridge, Jeevith Suryakanth, Attila Szalma, Attila Szapek, Richard Sällqvist, Marc Taganas, Florent Taisne, Emilie Talles, Trevor Tang, Anne-Laure Tarabeux, François Tarlier, Nicolas Terriere, Sawan Thakrar, Olivier Thibaut, Richard Thomas, Rick Thomson, Rebecca Timons, Mark Tompkins, Joel Tong, Leigh Took, Hoa Tran, Jamie Tremelling, Lazar Trenchev, Christine Troianello, Arnaud Trouvé, Curtis Tsai, Paul Tuersley, Marine Tuloup, James Turner, Audrius Urbonavicius, Jonny Vale, Edouard Valton, Chris Van Dyck, Jozef van Eenbergen, Oliver Velichkovski, Nitya Venugopal, Christophe Verspieren, François Vico, Dominique Vidal, Christopher Michael Walker, Thomas Warrender, Martin Waters, Gregory Watkins, Arnaud Watteau, John L. Weckworth, Paulo Welter, Ruth Wiegand, Tobias Wiesner, Rich Wills, Doug Winder, Jamie Wong, Trevor Wyatt, Mert Yamak, Angus Young, Anton Yri, Joelle Xin Zhow, Emil Alagjozovski, Iker Alonso, Christopher Cameron, Christopher Collis, Neil Damman, Zoran Dimanovski, Katarina Gacevska, Robert Greb, Jonathan Harden, Cat Harris, Guy Hauldren, Uday Joshi, Goran Kocov, Lazetutkovski, Sabari Nobishwaran, Matthew Ovens, Radhakrishnan, Stephanie Ross, Mk Sajith, Nadica Slatinec, Alan Stanzione, Elena Velkova
Stunts	Tom Aitken, Lucy Allen, David Anders, Mark Archer, Lloyd Bass, Michael Byrch, Marvin Campbell, Nick Chopping, Jonathan Cohen, James Cox, Talila Craig, Matt Da Silva, Kelly Dent, Levan Doran, Richard Dwyer, Bradley Farmer, Dave Fisher, James Grogan, Dee Harrop, Nick Hobbs, Gary Hoptrough, Rob Hunt, Eunice Huthart, Tolga Kenan, Paul Kennington, Cristian Knight, Derek Lea, Marc Mailley, Nick McKinless, Jo McLaren, Richard Mead, Erol Mehmet, Lee Millham, Rory Mulroe, Bonnie Parker, Charlie Pawlett, Ian Pead, Martin Pemberton, Chris Pollard, Charles Ramsay, Steve Scott, Marcus Shakesheff, Mark Southworth, Matthew Stirling, Roy Taylor, Arran Topham, Andy Wareham, Calvin Warrington-Heasman, Martin Wilde, Nick Chopping, Marc Mailley, Bonnie Parker, Ian Pead, Martin Wilde
Camera and Electrical Department	Jacob Barrie, Jeremy Braben, Dave Brennan, Steve Brooke Smith, Julian Bucknall, Luke Cairns, Pete Cavaciuti, John Chambers, Luke Chisholm, Damian Cooper, Nick Crew, Jason Cuddy, Simon Cullen, Oscar Deeks, Jess Doxey, Oliver Driscoll, Billy Dunn, Steve Ellingworth, Mike Farr, Wezley Joao Ferreira, Peter Field, Chuck Finch, Stephen Finch, Kevin Fitzpatrick, Jaime Fletcher, Leah Gallo, Dan Garlick, Rob Gilmour, Lee Godfrey, Stuart Godfrey, Andrew Haddock, Colin Hazell, Sam Hazell, Simon Heck, Garry Hedges, Tommy Holman, Stuart Hurley, Tim Hyson, Ian Jackson, Andrew Jones, John Jordan, Nick Kenealy, Russell Kennedy, Patrick King, Jody Knight, Lee Knight, Chris Knoll, Dora Krolikowska, Matt Lumley, Susan MacDonald, Billy Merrell, Richard Merrell, David Mills, Nick Mitchell, Julian Morson, Andy Mountain, Peter Mountain, Roz Naylor, Gary Nolan, Mattias Nyberg, Russell O Connor, Scott Parker, Steve Petrie, Simon Purdy, Michael J. Schwartz, Luke Selway, Frank Shields, Robert Skinner, James Starr, Ryan Taggart, Peter Talbot, Richard Thomas, Kirk Thornton, Neil Tomlin, Mike Valentine, James Wade, Dave Wells, Des Whelan, Charlie Whitaker, George White, Steve Wood, Ian Speed
Animation Department	Peta Bayley, Dan Blacker, David Crispino, Brecht Debaene, Mike Ford, Andrew Michael Innes, Sabrina Lecordier, Mariano Mendiburu, Chris Singer
Casting Department	Louis Elman, Miranda Howard-Williams, Kate McLaughlin, Sarah Bason
Costume and Wardrobe Department	Carrie Arakaki, Cathryn Avison, Marcia Bethell, Cheryl Beasley Blackwell, Jane Bogunovic, Sabrina Calley, Christine L. Cantella, Jay Cheng, Charlotte Child, Ellen Crawshaw, Anthony Drewett, Louise Egan, Carlos Fontanarrosa, Perry Goyen, Elizabeth Healy, Mila Hermanovski, Courtney Hoffman, Warren Holder, Harriet Kendall, Sam Keyte, Bryan Kopp, Ekaterina Kreinin, Samantha Langridge, Linda Lashley, Alison Levine, Zimer Longhin, Cavita Luchmun, Robyn Manton, Heidi McQueen-Prentice, Kathryn Mysko Von Schultze, Karen Naser, Hayley Nebauer, Dani Phelps, Kimberley Phillips, Kait Pickering, Kelly Porter, Jonny Pray, Lisa Robinson, Sophia Spink, Chan Chi Wan, Ros Ward, Sheena Wichary, Kanani Wolf, Dominic Young, Rosie Lack, Jacqueline Mulligan, Heather Rayat
Editorial Department	Matt Adams, Cherri Arpino, Matthew Benns, JC Bond, Nick Davis, Dan Dolan, Peter Doyle, David Johnston, Todd Kleparski, Grace Lan, Mitch Mitchell, Faye Morgan, Steve O Leary, Daniel Paress, Cheryl Potter, Kirsty Squibb, Lee Wimer, Clare McKee, Jonathan Sykes
Location Management	Jason Allen, Tom Asquith, Carn Burton, Rob Campbell-Bell, Chris Hankey, Ali James, Matt Mirrington, Duncan Muggoch, Emma Pill, Matt Risebrow, Luke Stevenson, David Wieder, Finlay Bradbury
Music Department	John Barrett, Steve Bartek, Steve Bauman, Christoph Bauschinger, Mark Berrow, Richard Bissill, Rachel Boot, Peter Clarke, Peter Cobbin, Bobby Collins, Chris Cozens, Anne-Marie Cullum, Michael Dore, Tom Hardisty, Michael Higham, Skaila Kanga, Greg Maloney, Marc Mann, Melisa McGregor, Everton Nelson, Sam Okell, Abbie Osmon, Jake Parker, Andy Richards, Ryan Robinson, Tim Rodier, Shie Rozow, Dennis S. Sands, Edgardo Simone, David Slonaker, Darren Smith, Peter Snipp, Noah Scot Snyder, Allen Walley, Lawrence Wallington, Rick Wentworth, Jonathan Williams, Warren Zielinski, Carter Armstrong, Rachel Bolt, Steve Mair, Bruce White
Script and Continuity Department	Nikki Clapp, Sharon Mansfield
Transportation Department	Jim Adams, Paul Andrews, Bryan Baverstock, Peter Devlin, Mark Dilliway, Carl Isherwood, Gary Kett, Andy Levett, David O Donoghue, Brendan O Gorman, Brett Owens, Janek Piner, Steve Rehnsi, Samuel Sharpe, Harry Taylor, Peter Trotman, Bill Walker, Rowan Wallbank, Rob Willoughby
Additional Crew	Sara Akhteh, Clare Aldington, Holly Asquith, Trevor Bagge, Daisy Baldry, Stephanie Barker, Celia Barnett, Brenda Berrisford, Russell Borrill, Hayley Buckingham, Grant Butler, Kohli Calhoun, Hannah Chitty, Sarah Clark, Chris Coles, Malcolm Connolly, Jessica Corlett, Ian Creed, Cathy Curtis, Tracy Curtis, Robin Demetriou, Laurie Deuters, Stephen Deuters, Maria Ana D. Dias, Sekani Doram, Charlotte Draper, Trevor Duke-Moretz, Harry Elvin, Amanda Fernie, Alexander Fielding, Ann-Marie Fitzgerald, Holly Gardner, Kya Garwood, Sonny Gill, Adam Del Giudice, Barrie Gower, Sofus Graae, Peter Hills, Nathan Holmes, Charles Howes, Chris Hugall, Dan Isaacson, Carl Isherwood, Craig Jamieson, Francesca Jaynes, Aaron Jenner, Bobbie Johnson, Chaz Johnson, Kelly Johnson-Beaven, Alex Kerr, Huey Kerrigan, Nessa King, Michael Koltes, Stuart Jerome Learmonth, Teariki Leonard, Kieran Linehan, Bethan Lloyd, Becky Maxwell, Emily Mayson, Victoria Morgan, Steve Morphew, Richard Morrison, Christopher Mullen, Nick Murray, David Murrell, Carolyn O Reilly, Alfie Oldman, Teresa Orlando, Edd Osmond, Christian Otty, Michael Peavey, Charlotte Piddington, Jim Pierson, Max Pirkis, Michelle Reed, Norman Campbell Rees, Christina Rice, Barnaby Riggs, Alex J Riley, Ben Rothwell, Angela Rowden, Richard Ruck, Kirsty Savory, Dave Shaw, Thea Soady, Kirsty Squibb, Jonjo Stickland, Siggy Stone, Artur Surma, Neil Swain, David Taylor, Harry Taylor, Katharine Tidy, Norman Todd, Laura Torrance, Rob Townsend, Peter Trotman, Louise Van Hamme, Duprez Veronique, Hamish Ward, Dean Wares, Leah Williams, Lois Williams, Keenan Wyatt, Dean Zanuck, David Zealey, Jeanette Agaronoff, Kriss TheDish Brown, Debra Bruce-Nazarian, Dave Melmoth, Margaret Richey, Greg Silverman, Robbie Tarrant, Richard Wild
Thanks	Dan Curtis
Genres	Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Companies	Warner Bros., Village Roadshow Pictures, Infinitum Nihil
Countries	USA, Australia, UK
Languages	English
ContentRating	PG-13
ImDbRating	6.2
ImDbRatingVotes	270178
MetacriticRating	55
Keywords	vampire,blood,surrealism,cartoon on tv,year 1972