An imprisoned vampire, Barnabas Collins, is set free and returns to his ancestral home, where his dysfunctional descendants are in need of his protection.

 



The first of four planned acts of Shadows on the Vatican starts with a flashback to 1996: On a charity mission in Africa, an eminent Vatican priest named Dellerio is gunned down by unknown assailants even as his protégé, James Murphy, watches helplessly from an airborne helicopter. Shattered by the brutal incident and disenchanted with the Ecclesiastical Authority, James goes on to abandon his priesthood in Italy and return to his native Chicago to become a doctor. Now, fourteen years later, he's back in Rome on the invitation of Cristoforo, his best friend from his days with the Church, who says that he knows what really happened in Africa. But before they can meet, Cristoforo is violently attacked, leaving him in a coma, and the outrage propels James to initiate an investigation into a deadly conspiracy that spans continents and decades, perhaps involving some of the most influential members of the Catholic Church.

The end seemed inescapable... Vatar - the Prince of Darkness had won. But a lonely Mage stands high up on a mountain ridge, defying the Demon. He lifts his staff high in the air then thumps it down on the earth - and unimaginably powerful spells are created, harnessing the infernal powers of nature.

Storyline: Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey, Jr.) and his longtime trusted associate, Doctor Watson (Jude Law), take on their arch-nemesis, Professor Moriarty (Jared Harris), with the help of Holmes's older brother Mycroft Holmes (Stephen Fry) and a gypsy named Sim (Noomi Rapace).

The end seemed inescapable... Vatar - the Prince of Darkness had won. But a lonely Mage stands high up on a mountain ridge, defying the Demon. He lifts his staff high in the air then thumps it down on the earth - and unimaginably powerful spells are created, harnessing the infernal powers of nature.

 

Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey, Jr.) and his longtime trusted associate, Doctor Watson (Jude Law), take on their arch-nemesis, Professor Moriarty (Jared Harris), with the help of Holmes s older brother Mycroft Holmes (Stephen Fry) and a gypsy named Sim (Noomi Rapace).

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...

An imprisoned vampire, Barnabas Collins, is set free and returns to his ancestral home, where his dysfunctional descendants are in need of his protection.