Two centuries later, Barnabas is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 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.
Julia Hoffman Helena Bonham Carter , to help with her family troubles. In , the Collins family moves from Liverpool to the Maine to expand the family empire and dedicate to fishing business. One year later, they are successful and the city of Collinsport is raised in the place. Then, for fifteen years, Joshua and Naomi Collins build their Collinswood mansion. But Angelique is a powerful witch that curses Barnabas and his family, killing his parents, Josette and turning him into a vampire.
Then she brings the locals that lock him in a coffin and bury him for the eternity. In , the young Victoria Winters comes to the decadent Collinswood to be the tutor of the young David Collins, who lost his mother two years ago.
She finds a dysfunctional family composed by the devoted matriarch Elizabeth Collins Stoddard ahead of the family business that is near bankruptcy; her rebel daughter Carolyn Stoddard; her brother and David's father Roger Collins; the psychiatrist Dr. When eleven workers release and awake Barnabas, he drinks their blood and returns to Collinswood.
He meets Elizabeth and she tells him that the family has been cursed then Barnabas shows a hidden room with a treasure inside and he promises to protect them and assume the business. When he sees Victoria, he rekindles his love for her. But the witch Angelique is still alive and is prominent in the town and she has not forgotten Barnabas or that he broke her heart. Ultimately he was unable to protect himself from Angelique, who in her quest for revenge effortlessly turned the town against him, even leading an angry mob to bury Barnabas alive inside a chained coffin, where he would helplessly languish and thirst for the next years.
Nearly two centuries later, in probably October , Barnabas is accidentally freed by construction workers building a McDonald's restaurant off Highway 9 near Collinsport. The crew uncovers the coffin with an earthmover and, curious what might be inside and not suspecting the cost of that curiosity, they eagerly use bolt cutters to unfasten the coffin's chains.
Still vampirically "alive" and youthful due to Angelique's curse, but thirsting beyond his control, Barnabas attacks and rapidly drains the terrified workers of their blood, killing them all. Unfamiliar with scientific and technical developments since his imprisonment in , Barnabas believes at first that he has been released into hell to be punished for his vampiric crimes and dabbling in black magic.
He later recounts to the modern Collins family that his escape was due to an enormous "yellow dragon," the equipment that had unearthed him at the construction site; and he confuses the illuminated giant M forming McDonald's "golden arches" with a symbol of Mephistopheles.
Barnabas also mistakes the headlights of an oncoming car for the eyes of the devil. Eventually making his way to the Collinwood estate, Barnabas is stunned and disappointed to find the once glorious property, built by the finest craftsmen of his parents' era, now in a state of decrepitude that is obvious even in the darkness of night.
In a pumpkin patch on the estate, Barnabas encounters and hypnotically induces cooperation from the inebriated caretaker, Willie Loomis , from whom he learns that descendants of his family are alive in the present day, which the startled vampire is told is Barnabas has Willie help him cleanse himself so that he can make himself more presentable to the others at Collinwood.
Barnabas first introduces himself to the young people of Collinwood, David Collins and year-old Carolyn Stoddard , and is then confronted by the understandably very suspicious Elizabeth Collins Stoddard. After revealing his vampiric nature to Elizabeth, but assuring her that he plans only to rejoin the Collins family and restore its long-diminished fortunes, Barnabas demonstrates his secret knowledge that long-concealed passages beneath Collinwood are a treasure trove of riches.
After extracting a promise from Barnabas that his revelations will remain their secret, Elizabeth then declares, "Welcome home, Barnabas Collins. Barnabas is introduced the following morning to the other inhabitants of Collinwood, Elizabeth's brother Roger Collins , and the live-in family psychiatrist Dr.
Julia Hoffman. More importantly to Barnabas, he meets the recently arrived governess, Victoria Winters , who reminds him of his long-lost love Josette and who, over time, reveals that she has been led to Collinwood by Josette's ghost and that she is also attracted to Barnabas.
Barnabas soon learns that Angelique Bouchard is also still alive and youthful looking and now blonde , years after she cursed him with vampirism. He realizes that she has used witchcraft to establish herself as a pillar of the community, being the owner of the highly successful Angel Bay Seafood company, which is the chief competitor to the languishing Collins Canning Company , and thus is responsible for the supernaturally engineered decline of the Collins family.
As he sets about using the hidden fortune from the secret rooms beneath the mansion to renovate Collinwood and restore the family business and reputation, Barnabas also continues learning about the modern world. His antiquated mannerisms and curious appearance arouse the curiosity of Dr.
Hoffman , who uses hypnosis to learn that he is a vampire. She agrees to begin using laboratory treatments to help Barnabas, but when he learns that she is instead secretly trying to use his blood to help her achieve eternal youthfulness for herself, Barnabas views her as a traitor, drains her of blood, and drops her seemingly dead body into the Atlantic waters off the coast of Collinsport.
After she learns of his successful efforts to revive the Collins family business and community standing, Angelique is infuriated and offers Barnabas both "business propositions" and romantic overtures to try to threaten and seduce him into joining together with her.
The Series: Was Laura wrong about David and her other kids? Or did she repeatedly return and murder her children in the hopes that it would be different this time? The film: If Angelique was just a servant girl why was she wearing such a nice dress in the first scene where she's told not to look at Barnabas? Also did anyone else notice Angelique's mother sounds exactly like adult Angelique? Even bigger question: Seeing we find out Angelique is a witch and after the backstory presented prior to the credits, we find out she's been pretending to be her own descendants for over two centuries after Barnabas' burial, are we even sure if Angelique we see as a child the same one we see as a grown up, or is Angelique's mother actually THE Angelique we see throughout the whole film and she did away with the child after a certain age and took her place?
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