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Tim Burton's Dark Shadows

I often watched this and felt it was Tim Burton just living out the dream of a classic horror fan who gets to pay visual homage to the past using familiar scenes and the Gothic vampire lore in ways he could only imagine. People are paying him—giving him a budget to die for—to live out the dream through direction, through the production Hollywood allowed him access to. I mean just the two images above are examples of this. Think about it, Tim Burton shoots vampire Barnabas rising from his casket exactly as Max Schreck’s Nosferatu did, with him closing the scene yawning as he has awakened to a new day. Then you have Willie Loomis taking Barnabas to meet a fisherman named Blarney played by Christopher Lee. You see Barnabas attempting to cast a spell on Christopher Lee, Dracula himself, and I can only imagine Burton was a bit giddy at setting, preparing, and completing such a sequence.