Dark Shadows might be the most underrated film by Tim Burton and a movie that marks one of the greatest performances by Johnny Depp as the eccentric vampire. It's this irony along with this weirdness that Johnny Depp puts in the role that make that specific vampire to be a memorable character. Dark Shadows is a movie about humour and how we approach it. And Tim Burton, after many years, decides to take out all of his dark and morbid humour out. You see funny situations are causing laughter, but dark and sinister situations cause a hilarious laughter. Dark Shadows finds director Tim Burton to be in a most amusing appetite, giving to the audience a movie that balances between a non scary horror movie, a family drama and a pure untameable comedy. You see Tim Burton has always been a man of dark laughter he has proven it in some of his greatest films like Beetlejuice and Mars Attacks! and he is here in a mood that really shatters any kind of decency in the movie, by giving a film that looks like a soap opera, breathes like a satire and walks like a movie that is here to purely entertain. Dark Shadows is a movie that finds comment in the smallest details, it finds humour in the most catastrophic situations, it produces laughter where there should be a horrific, dramatic element. You could easily say that this is the life of a family but gazed through a lens that magnifies the absurd, the funny, the preposterous, the weird, the one that we shouldn't talk about, the one that keep it as a secret and we are ashamed of it. Tim Burton is a director of pure eccentricity, of pure ideals that have to do with the awkward and the one that most people would never talk about, he is a creator that sits in a throne by himself and with this movie over here he proves that he can make the most funny film from elements that have nothing to do with laughter.
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