Tim Burton's twist on an old US horror-soap continues his run of hit/miss reimaginings.
Plus points include Johnny Depp’s 200-year-old dandy bloodsucker and Eva Green’s femme fatale – both fun, both lush enough to eat – while the design pairs Burton’s period fetishism (Sweeney Todd) with his ’70s nostalgia.
But the cast look lost, the culture-clash gags creak, silliness stifles scares and fancy trumps feeling, rendering the result goofily watchable but toothless next to, say, True Blood’s sex-schlock soap.
