Should we or should we not be surprised that director Tim Burton and star Johnny Depp have turned “Dark Shadows” into a campy comedy?

Burton and Depp have teamed for a series of movies that have varied wildly in quality and reception by fans and critics. The idea of them teaming for “Dark Shadows,” the big-screen version of the fondly remembered 1960s daytime supernatural soap, set off the expected alarm bells.

Would the movie be ghoulish and straight-faced or campy and over the top?

With the release of the “Dark Shadows” trailer, I think we know the answer.

The basic premise of the show is translated into the movie’s plot. Barnabas Collins (Depp) is cursed by a witch in the 1700s and buried for two centuries. He is dug up in 1972 and joins his descendants in his gothic ancestral home.

In the series, anti-hero Collins (played by Jonathan Frid) mostly overcame his impulses to kill and fought the forces of evil.

In the movie, it appears that Barnabas is reunited with his family only to have to fight off some … corporate takeover attempt by Angelique, the witch who cursed him 200 years earlier.

The plot appears to revolve around Barnabas’ attempts to resist the romantic intentions of Angelique (Eva Green) in a series of scenes that involved groovy period music and … a disco ball of death?

“Dark Shadows” was unlikely to be a full-on supernatural soap opera in its big-screen incarnation. And honestly, while the original show has fans — including me — they won’t make up the bulk of the movie audience. To succeed, “Dark Shadows” has to sell tickets to millions of people who weren’t even born when the show went off the air.

But it remains to be seen if Burton and Depp have produced a funny, shocking hit like “Beetlejuice” or the latest in a string of oddball movies like “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and “Alice in Wonderland.”

The movie opens May 11.