50 God-Tier Acting Moments Buried in Bad Movies
27. Eva Green - Dark Shadows
Eva Green, who rose to fame as Casino Royale's fantastic Bond Girl, is an interesting figure. The French actress has been in many bad movies over the years, yet she's pretty much always one of the best things in them. Green has this wonderful ability to spin straw into gold, delivering gloriously charismatic turns in many a bad movie, and Dark Shadows is one of the best examples of this.
Tim Burton's adaptation of Dark Shadows, a 1960s Gothic Soap Opera, was a maddening waste of stratospheric potential. As you'd expect from Burton, it looks fantastic, but the script is a tonally discombobulated mess, the whole thing is off-puttingly mean-spirited, and most of the fantastic cast are wasted. Most of them.
Eva Green was perfectly cast as Angelique Bouchard, a vengeful witch with a grudge against Johnny Depp's vampire and his family, and she's an absolute riot. She's a deliciously evil yet endlessly entertaining supernatural femme fatale, and she steals the entire film while making it look effortless. Ironically, despite being the villain, Angelique is honestly the most entertaining and likable character in the movie.