It's official: Alice Cooper is in Dark Shadows. No, I'm not saying an Alice Cooper song is used in the latest Dark Shadows international trailer, I'm saying the man himself, Alice Cooper aka Vincent Furnier, is featured in person, performing "No More Mr. Nice Guy" as-- who else?-- himself.
The trailer, which can be found below or on the RuTube channel that premiered it, is more or less identical to the official trailer that premiered last week, except for the Cooper stinger (and the pretty hilarious Barnabas Collins' quip accompanying it). As such, it has made the prospects of Dark Shadows about a million times brighter, as Cooper's goofy/creepy/badass persona seems to play perfectly into the off-the-wall tone Burton and company are going for.
This isn't the first time Cooper has played himself (see Wayne's World and Roadie for previous meta Cooper cameos) or popped up in a horror movie ( Monster Dog and John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness remain high points of his thespian career). Let's face it, the man's inclusion simply makes everything better, especially movies. Watch this fact demonstrated in the trailer below:
Dark Shadows, a tongue in cheek adaptation of Dan Curtis' supernatural soap opera of the same name, will hit theaters May 11th. The film marks Johnny Depp and Tim Burton's eighth collaboration together, from a script by Seth Grahame-Smith (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter). The film's ensemble cast includes Eva Green, Johnny Lee Miller, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jackie Earl Haley, Chloe Grace Moretz, and Burton muse Helena Bonham Carter.
Synopsis:
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 Brouchard (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.
Extra Tidbit: Check out the soundtrack for Wes Craven's Shocker for a killer Megadeth cover of "No More Mr. Nice Guy."
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