Cast
Cast overview, first billed only:
  Johnny Depp  ...  Barnabas Collins 
  Michelle Pfeiffer  ...  Elizabeth Collins Stoddard 
  Helena Bonham Carter  ...  Dr. Julia Hoffman 
  Eva Green  ...  Angelique Bouchard 
  Jackie Earle Haley  ...  Willie Loomis 
  Jonny Lee Miller  ...  Roger Collins 
  Bella Heathcote  ...  Victoria Winters / Josette DuPres 
  Chloë Grace Moretz  ...  Carolyn Stoddard 
  Gulliver McGrath  ...  David Collins 
  Ray Shirley  ...  Mrs. Johnson 
  Christopher Lee  ...  Clarney 
  Alice Cooper  ...  Alice Cooper 
  Ivan Kaye  ...  Joshua Collins 
  Susanna Cappellaro  ...  Naomi Collins 
  Josephine Butler  ...  David's Mother

In the year 1752, Joshua and Naomi Collins, with young son Barnabas, set sail from Liverpool, England to start a new life in America. But even an ocean was not enough to escape the mysterious curse that has plagued their family. Two decades pass and Barnabas (Johnny Depp) has the world at his feet-or at least the town of Collinsport, Maine. The master of Collinwood Manor, Barnabas is rich, powerful and an inveterate playboy...until he makes the grave mistake of breaking the heart of Angelique Bouchard (Eva Green). A witch, in every sense of the word, Angelique dooms him to a fate worse than death: turning him into a vampire, and then burying him alive. Two centuries later, Barnabas is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate has fallen into ruin. The dysfunctional remnants of the Collins family have fared little better...

As it should. It sucks! Thirty seconds are good, title and last few seconds of end titles have sampled some appropriate music from the original series, and that little bit is all that that worked for me, (and that will work only for those who recognize it), and is in sharp contrast to everything else that is a muddled mess of a bastard adaptation of some of the original story line. Was surprised that they did keep it very serious for the most part. All the funny bits are in the adds and trailers. But the Nosferatu Barnabas look prevented any of this cinematic waste to work at all. In short the original fan will like the fact that it is a muddled mess and the newbie will just be bored to tears. So ironically original fans may get more enjoyment out of this, bit not in any way that the makers of this intended. If you blink you will miss the classic cast enter a doorway and then two of them in a background of another shot. Not a word spoken or mouthed. That may be something for all to follow as a good example of how to handle this. Don't speak about it, and I for one won't waste any more time thinking about it.