Two of Burton’s films, Frankenweenie and Sleepy Hollow, feature scenes at a windmill reminiscent of the ending of Frankenstein where the angry villagers find both monster and the creator in a windmill.īurton added, “In the specific time that I grew up in just because you watched monster movies people thought you were weird which I always felt was an odd thing because if I liked musicals or westerns would people think you’re weird? It didn’t seem that unnatural to me. Frankenweenie was eventually released as a full-length animated feature in 2012.
Disney released Frankenweenie on home video during the early ‘90s. Screen Rant reported that Disney shelved Frankenweenie until Burton’s success with Beetlejuice. While there, he made Frankenweenie first as a live-action short in 1984, starring Daniel Stern and Shelley Duvall as Victor’s parents. Burton’s first job was working for Disney’s animation department. Universal horror’s influence can be seen, specifically with Tim Burton’s homage to Frankenstein, Frankenweenie. My parents said that I used to watch those movies before I could even walk and talk. I grew up watching the old Universal horror movies, Japanese monster movies, and pretty much any kind of monster movie, that was my genre. Barrett Oliver as Victor Frankenstein and Shelley Duvall as Susan Frankenstein in Burton’s live-action short, Frankenweenie (1984)
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In a 2013 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, “Tim Burton on His Life and Movies Coming Full Circle with ‘Frankenweenie,”, not surprisingly, Burton said that he always loved monster movies. According to the documentary, Tim Burton: The Twisted Story of the Eccentric Filmmaker, by Screen Rant on YouTube, Bill Burton was a minor league baseball player who worked for the Burbank Parks and Recreation Department and Jean had a gift shop dedicated entirely to cats.ĭuring childhood, Burton retreated into monster movies and drawing. His landscape is full of odd angles and eccentric shapes and designs which create an off-kilter and dreamlike effect.īorn on August 25, 1958, to Jean and William Burton, Tim Burton grew up in Burbank, California. Tim Burton’s macabre wonderlands are reminiscent of German silent horror films from the ‘20s which were heavily inspired by German expressionism.
Burton is more than just a director-he creates worlds. Lydia Deetz, Edward Scissorhands, Jack Skellington, and the citizens of Halloweentown are just a few examples of macabre but benevolent characters that populate Burton’s world. What’s interesting is that the characters that have a macabre sensibility are not sinister. His main characters are always misunderstood outcasts. In movies like Edward Scissorhands and The Nightmare Before Christmas, the settings are fairytale-like and magical. Tim Burton uses macabre imagery in a unique way.
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