Dark Shadows
Syfy HD, 9pm/syfy+1, 10pm ★★★
Sex ●●● Violence ●●● Language ●●●
Johnny Depp’s eighth screen collaboration with director Tim Burton is entertaining fare, though Burton’s customary visual flare is once again let down by his usual slapdash plotting. Depp plays a dandyish 18th-century vampire who emerges after two centuries in a coffin and rejoins his faded New England family. Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter, Chloë Grace Moretz, Bella Heathcote, Jonny Lee Miller and Eva Green are among those providing gloriously campy support. 2012, 12, 113MIN