Today i would like to intro a movie of "Dark Shadows to you .

Dark Shadows

This story is telling in the year 1752, Joshua and Naomi Collins, with young son Barnabas (Thomas McDonell), 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 a grown-up 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 care-free… until he makes the grave mistake (literally) of breaking the heart of Angelique Bouchard (Eva Green). A witch, in every sense of the word, Angelique uses her powers to cause the death of Barnabas' parents and then, when she learns he has fallen completely in love with the beautirful Josette duPres (Bella Heathcote), bewitches Josette into falling to her death from Widow's Hill and, when Barnabas leaps after her to join her in death, dooming him to a fate worse than death: turning him into a vampire, turning the entire town against him and then having him locked inside a chained coffin and buried alive.

Dark Shadows': The story behind the grand, Gothic set design

For anyone familiar with the original long-running television series “Dark Shadows,” one of the biggest surprises of Tim Burton's big-screen remake opening this week may lie with what's behind the massive front doors of Collinwood Manor.

Freed from the budgetary constraints of a daily soap opera set and fertilized with the vision of Burton and production designer Rick Heinrichs, the interior of Collinwood was built on a soundstage as a full-fledged, exquisitely detailed character of its own. Fading Gothic grandeur is seamlessly combined with maritime motifs that reference the Collins family's ties to the sea.

The floor of the grand foyer is tiled in a blue-and-white pattern that evokes ocean waves, and upon closer examination, the immense chandelier overhead proves to have milky white octopus tentacles snaking among the strings of crystals.

“I designed the undulating floor tile based on a 12th century basket-weave design I'd found,” Heinrichs said. “It was made to our specifications out of extra hard plaster, since a movie production can be a lot of wear.” The production designer said the marine-themed chandelier had to be sketched out and then rendered in 3-D.

ilmgoers also will see sea horses flanking the fireplace, sea serpents encircling the newels at the bottom of the grand staircase and denizens of the briny deep, including a trident-wielding Neptune, standing sentinel on carved wooden panels throughout the house — figures that were first made in miniature before larger versions were milled.

“It was tricky,” Heinrichs said, adding that the inordinate level of detail was necessary. “When Barnabas [Johnny Depp] walks into Collinwood, he makes a reference to the artisans and craftspeople who worked on the house. So it needed to reflect that amount of effort.”

The Collins family of "Dark Shadows" inevitably gravitates to the grand foyer for key moments, but much of the action takes place in smaller, more intimate spaces inside and outside the ancestral home: behind barking dog fireplaces, in hidden treasure rooms. Let's just say that this Collinwood Manor holds as many secrets as the family that inhabits it.

-- Adam Tschorn