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You know what frightens me? A generation of kids raised in a bubble that keeps out anything scary.
With Halloween upon us, and a number of recent family movies such as Frankenweenie and Brave pushing the creepy crawly boundaries of what today’s most overprotective parents deem acceptable, it seems to me like the perfect time to suggest that we all relax and let the little ones enjoy a good scare.
Burton’s mother made this skeleton costume for him one Halloween, using a snowman decoration for a bobbling head. It bears an uncanny resemblance to Jack Skellington, the main character in Burton’s stop-motion animated hit The Nightmare Before Christmas.
There are no mist-shrouded haunted houses in Tim Burton’s spick-and-span hometown of Burbank, Calif.
The only blood suckers out at night are mosquitoes. No corkscrew trees claw the sidewalk on Evergreen Street, where the filmmaker grew up in the 1960s and early ’70s in one of its many neat little cracker-box houses.
But then, at the end of his road … was a sprawling graveyard.
With the filmmaker’s new stop-motion animated movie Frankenweenie debuting in theaters this weekend, it seemed like a good time to go back and tell the strange story of Tim Burton’s otherwise normal hometown, and how it shaped his twisted cinematic visions.
With clips like the one in which Martin Landau channels Vincent Price, it’s hard not to wonder if Tim Burton’s upcoming 3D stop-motion film Frankenweenie (Oct. 5), about a boy who reanimates his dead dog, might be a little frightening. Burton says there’s nothing to worry about.
“Kids are funny and they are all so different. I don’t think this movie is scary at all. I think it is fine for kids,” the director said at the movie’s Hollywood premiere last night. “My daughter’s 3 and her favorite movie currently is War of The Gargantuas. I’m an excellent parent.” READ FULL STORY »
As if the thought of science class isn’t scary enough for some kids, imagine someone like Martin Landau’s Frankenweenie character, the looming Mr. Rzykruski, breaking down lightning like he does in the new clip below.
Something tells me that the folks in this Tim Burton film about a boy who brings his dead dog back to life, out Oct. 5, might have of other things to worry about though.
More on Frankenweenie:
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