Dark Shadows: Meet the Residents

Barnabas is a rich and powerful playboy, and the master of Collinwood Manor. He falls in love with Josette DuPres and consequently breaks the heart of Angelique Bouchard. Angelique, being a vile and demonic with, curses Barnabas, turning him into a vampire. 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, with each member of the Collins family harboring their own dark secrets

Before Dark Shadows hits the theaters this 11th of May, here's a rundown of the characters you will get to know within the story.

Dashing, charismatic and undead, Barnabas Collins carries himself with the confidence and grandeur of royalty. But making sense of modern times isn't easy for the Victorian vampire, having just been freed from two centuries of entombment to find his family in ruin and his scorned lover, Angelique, still cursing his name.

 Stoic in the face of a centuries-old family curse, Elizabeth is the elegant and formidable matriarch of the dysfunctional Collins family, and the only one Barnabas entrusts with the truth of his identity. She's determined that above all, their family will endure, and she is the picture of sophistication and strength even as their fortunes crumble around them.

Dr. Hoffman is the rather intense, often hungover live-in psychiatrist who has been treating young David Collins since his mother was tragically lost at sea. Brilliant but batshit, she's an expert on disorders of the body and mind...and things that mix with bourbon. Barnabas' rather odd and anachronistic behavior immediately raises the suspicions Dr. Hoffman, who has no idea what kind of problems she’s really digging up.

Angelique Bouchard is Collinsport's wealthiest, most powerful resident...and, unbeknownst to the townsfolk, a vile demonic witch. Ageless, sinister and positively obsessed with Barnabas, Angelique is driven by envy and rage to destroy all that he loves and make him suffer alone for eternity.

Elizabeth's rebellious 15 year old daughter Carolyn is having as much fun living on a remote, dilapidated Victorian estate as any teenager would. When she's not dreaming of running away to New York or antagonizing her cousin David, she's lamenting how no one understands what she's going through.

There's more to David's new nanny than meets the eye. The spitting image of Barnabas' long-lost love Josette, Vicky is undeterred by visitations from Josette's ghost and appears to be running from a dark secret that propels her mysterious connection with the Collins family.

Every wealthy family has one, and Elizabeth's brother Roger Collins is the resident greedy, ne'er-do-well playboy at Collinwood Manor. Roger has been adrift from his son David since the death of David's mother, becoming an increasingly unscrupulous, arrogant absentee dad.

 A precocious and lonely 10 year old, David believes his dead mother communicates with him. His family dismisses his claims, but David finds a believer in his new governess, Vicky, and an ally in Barnabas, who assures him that being a Collins is far more important than being a bit mad.

Part chauffeur, part cook, part groundskeeper and frequent drinker, Willie is the last of Collinwood Manor's loyal servants to still answer the call. He's salty and unpretentious, a stark contrast to Barnabas' formality and flourish.

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