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.
