Yea, I wasn't too much of a fan of the revival show. It wasn't that it was played straight but that it lacked alot of the demented, slightly bizarre and surreal vibe of the original series. I also thought Ben Cross wasn't a very good Barnabas. He wasn't very charasmatic.
Angelique was in the revival but the show was canned before they could really conclude it. We get their backstory and what not, but they never saw it through.
Anyways, I'm not really feeling the trailer all that much. I was expecting something closer to Sleepy Hollow. The thing with Dark Shadows is that it's aged the same way that the old Universal Horror films did. The scares have dissipated but what you're left with is something incredibly surreal, demented and mildly disturbing. And for all the goofs and slip-ups of the show, it was still damn good. All of that seems to be missing in this trailer. Depp's Barnabas seems to lack much of charm of Frid's, who was far more suave and straight laced. It helped that Collinwood felt so detatched from the rest of the world. The "man out of time" as a comedy thing feels really tired here, too. I really wish Burton played it straight, but we'll see I guess.
) and reveals he drove his fiancee 200 years ago to her suicide....yeah okay. 
