With These New Photos From 'Dark Shadows,' You Can Start To Assemble Your Own Trailer

Is Warner Bros. mounting the most abstract trailer release ever? We've seen so many new photos from Tim Burton's Dark Shadows in the past week, it's like the studio is just releasing the trailer one frame at a time. And it is a little bit weird that we've already got a trailer for the stop-motion version of Burton's Frankenweenie, which opens in October, while we haven' t yet seen a shred of footage for Dark Shadows, which is a mere two months away, with an opening set for May 11. (Not like the film is wanting an attention-getting cast, with the likes of Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Eva Green and Michelle Pfeiffer.)

So break out your zoetrope, print out these stills and assemble your own Dark Shadows trailer.

The top pics in this gallery are via CineMarcado, which also (thanks to the miracle of Google Translate) runs a rumor that the film won't open until June, at least in South America. I wouldn't put too much stock in that just yet, at least as far as the US release goes. The last three images are ones that showed up recently that you may have missed. There are others here.

[Images removed at the behest of Warner Bros.]

In the year 1752, Joshua and Naomi Collins, with young son Barnabas, set sail from Liverpool, England to start a new life in America. But even an ocean was not enough to escape the mysterious curse that has plagued their family. Two decades pass and Barnabas (Johnny Depp) has the world at his feet–or at least the town of Collinsport, Maine. The master of Collinwood Manor, Barnabas is rich, powerful and an inveterate playboy...until he makes the grave mistake of breaking the heart of Angelique Bouchard (Eva Green). A witch, in every sense of the word, Angelique dooms him to a fate worse than death: turning him into a vampire, and then burying him alive. 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. The dysfunctional remnants of the Collins family have fared little better, each harboring their own dark secrets. Matriarch Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (Michelle Pfeiffer) has called upon live-in psychiatrist, Dr. Julia Hoffman (Helena Bonham Carter), to help with her family troubles. Also residing in the manor is Elizabeth's ne'er-do-well brother, Roger Collins, (Jonny Lee Miller); her rebellious teenage daughter Carolyn Stoddard (Chloe Moretz); and Roger's precocious 10-year-old son, David Collins (Gulliver McGrath). The mystery extends beyond the family, to caretaker Willie Loomis, played by Jackie Earle Haley, and David's new nanny, Victoria Winters, played by Bella Heathcote.