Dark Shadows, 2012
Director
Cast
- Johnny Depp
- Michelle Pfeiffer
- Eva Green
- Chloë Grace Moretz
- Jonny Lee Miller
- Helena Bonham Carter
- Bella Heathcote
- Jackie Earle Haley
- Christopher Lee
visit the film locations
Visit: Surrey
Visit: Devon
Visit: North Devon & Exmoor
Visit: South Devon
Trivia
Bourne Woods are a screen regular, featured in Gladiator and The Wolfman
Dark Shadows location: the site of ‘Collinwood Manor’‘Collinwood Manor’: Bourne Wood, Farnham, Surrey
Although it’s set in coastal ‘Maine’, Dark Shadows was made entirely in England. Tim Burton’s homage to the cult US TV series of the 70s (which didn’t make it to the UK) is, of course, gloriously Gothic, but doesn’t contain any surprises. It suffers from pet project syndrome, and it feels time for Burton and Johnny Depp to move out of their comfort zone.
The centre of the story is the ‘Collinwood Manor’. After much location scouting, as far away as Scotland (Ecclesgreig Castle, near Montrose, supposedly an inspiration for the setting of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, was a contender), the mansion was finally built from scratch in the familiar locale of The Bourne near Farnham, Surrey.
Amazingly, the fishing port of ‘Collinsport’ is a set built at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, making good use of the facility’s enormous water tank.
Although the towering cliffs are CGI, the rocky beach scenes were filmed on the south coast of Devon, at Great Mattiscombe Sands near Start Point, about nine miles from Kingsbridge.
The asylum, from which the young Maggie escapes, is Beckenham Place Park, Beckenham Hill Road, Lewisham, a golf course near Bromley in South London.
