Dark Shadows 🎥 2012 Movie Info

Plot Summary

A young Barnabas Collins and his wealthy family immigrated from Liverpool to Maine, where they established the town of Collinsport and constructed the Collinwood Mansion. Fifteen years later, Barnabas is engaged to Josette while having an affair with Angelique, who is secretly a witch, but he refuses any further advances. Enraged, Angelique murders his parents using magic and curses Barnabas. She then casts a spell on Josette, making her jump to her death from the cliff called Widows’ Hill. A distraught Barnabas attempts to fall to his death but fails, discovering that Angelique’s curse has transformed him into a vampire.

She rallies the town against him, and Barnabas is buried alive in a hidden tomb. In 1972, Maggie Evans, under the alias Victoria Winters, is hired as governess for the Collins family, now consisting of matriarch Elizabeth, 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. Meanwhile, a construction crew unwittingly frees Barnabas from his tomb and he drinks their blood to restore himself. At Collinwood, Barnabas hypnotizes the caretaker, Willie, to become his familiar, and reveals to Elizabeth that the family curse is true.

He asks to rejoin the family and shows her the manor’s secret passages and hidden treasure. Meanwhile, an older Angelique has displaced the Collins family fishing business by starting her own company, Angel Bay Seafood. Once discovering that Barnabas has escaped, she goes to Collinwood to confront him, reminding him of her powers and popularity within the town before she leaves. While adjusting to modern life and falling for Victoria, Barnabas uses his powers and the family treasure to restore his family’s finances. Dr. Hoffman learns of his true nature while she is under hypnosis.

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