One of the most absurd complaints that I remember about Cross' casting as Barnabas was that Barnabas would sound too English because Cross was from England. And mind you, this was before anyone had even heard Cross speak one word as Barnabas, so no one really knew what sort of accent he would have in the role. But even if that was going to turn out to be the case, apparently the complainers had forgotten that Barnabas' backstory/lie was that he'd just come from England, so why shouldn't he have sounded as English as anyone else who'd actually lived there? But, of course - and you hit the nail on the head - the real reason behind the complaint was that Frid's Barnabas never had an English accent, so naturally, in the complainers' minds, Cross' Barnabas shouldn't either, no matter how much sense it could make for Barnabas to actually have one. And there seems to be a similar lack of logic with some of the complaints about this film...
107 days 1 hours 39 minutes 40 seconds until the day the Depp/Burton Dark Shadows is released(ET)!!