Dark Shadows

I never got around to reviewing "Dark Shadows" when we saw it a few weeks ago.  I suspect that it has pretty much made its run and is almost ready for video.

It's not that it wasn't a good movie.  It was.  I enjoyed it.  Oh, it had its seamy moments and in true vampire tradition, it was gory and outrageous at times. 

It's just that it was very, very funny and the anti-hero Barnabas Collins was "drawn" to be quite humorous in his encounters with the world.  And, yes, in a strange way, good did triumph over evil.

The main drawback was the strange evil powers of his antagonist.  If she was so adept at keeping him buried for a couple hundred years, you would think that she could have been adept in keeping him in his place and defeating him.

The characters in general were also quite funny.  It was like watching a spoof of Daytime soap operas but, hey, I think that's what it was supposed to be. 

I enjoyed seeing the movie on the big screen but I think it will be no less entertaining on video.  I recommend it to adult viewers who hail back to the 60's.  I suspect that many young adults will find it pretty boring.