TRAILER: 'Dark Shadows' - Nerdy Rotten Scoundrel

The remake of the ’60s supernatural soap opera directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp as vampire Barnabas Collins at long last has a trailer.

To say it is unlike anything you would expect would be an understatement. There has been endless speculation on how this film would come across when the first leaked photos of Johnny Depp in costume from the set made their way online.

Now that the first live action sneak peek has been released, you can safely throw away any notions of modern angst ridden tween friendly themes and brooding characters that have made Twilight, True Blood, and The Vampire Diaries so popular. Burton’s Dark Shadows bears the director’s distinct gothic look and has an unexpected quirky campy ’70s setting (and swinging soundtrack as well).

If you are unfamiliar with this cult favorite series from decades past, here is the official synopsis of the upcoming film from Warner Bros.

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, each harboring their own dark secrets. Matriarch Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (Michelle Pfeiffer) has called upon live-in psychiatrist, Dr. Julia Hoffman (Helena Bonham Carter), to help with her family troubles. Also residing in the manor is Elizabeth’s ne’er-do-well brother, Roger Collins, (Jonny Lee Miller); her rebellious teenage daughter Carolyn Stoddard (Chloe Moretz); and Roger’s precocious 10-year-old son, David Collins (Gulliver McGrath). The mystery extends beyond the family, to caretaker Willie Loomis, played by Jackie Earle Haley, and David’s new nanny, Victoria Winters, played by Bella Heathcote.