To me, the Depp Barnabas looked the way a vampire should look. He has all the attributes: pasty; lanky, and the long fingernails come right out of Stoker. Vampries aren't the hunks found in blech like Twilight. They are mobile corpses. My one complaint would be that he didn't look more atrophied when released from the coffin after 200 years, not having any blood. He should've looked like an extra from The Walking Dead. Once he fed, then he would take on a more "filled" appearance. I would imagine some emaciated ghoul, terrifying in appearance, coming out of that coffin. That would've been a nice shock. From stills I've seen of DS04, that's what the originally found Barnabas looked like.
Gerard