"Dark Shadows" cast members Johnny Depp, Eva Green and Michelle Pfeiffer talk about pop culture's ongoing fascination with vampires.<br/> <br />Depp plays Barnabas Collins, a cursed vampire imprisoned for 200 years and set free in 1972.<br/> <br />Barnabas is met with culture shock when he comes face to face with roads, cars, troll dolls and lava lamps.<br/> <br />SOUNDBITE: Johnny Depp saying (English):<br/> <br />"To have this vampire coming back 200 years later in 1972, and basically being the eyes that we never had back then; the eyes that can see the absurdity."<br/> <br />Eva Green plays evil sorceress Angelique Bouchard, who condemns Barnabas to eternal hell as the undead after he confesses that he doesn't love her.<br/> <br />SOUNDBITE: Eva Green, "Dark Shadows" co-star, saying (English):<br/> <br />"She would die for him; she would do anything for him. She just wants his love back. I don't know what's alluring about him though. His fingers probably, that's what she likes about him."<br/> <br />Michelle Pfeiffer plays head of the Collins household, Elizabeth Collins Stoddard.<br/> <br />She dished on her childhood obsession with vampires and explained their seductiveness.<br/> <br />SOUNDBITE: Michelle Pfeiffer, "Dark Shadows" actress, saying (English):<br/> <br />"This one image burns into my mind, and that's this woman and her neck is being sucked on by Dracula and this look of ecstasy is on her face and I just remember going, 'Oh my god.' It was the sexiest thing I've ever seen."<br/> <br />"Dark Shadows" hits theaters on May 11.<br/> <br />Roselle Chen, Reuters.
