In 2005, Tim Burton's gothic musical Corpse Bride hit theaters to critical and commercial acclaim, reigniting that macabre charm that the filmmaker attained with his first stop-motion success, The ...

After his time in the chocolate factory became a huge success it could almost be said that Tim Burton, once again, held in his hand the golden ticket (you can add a groan here for the terrible joke).

Take something creepy and gruesome like maggots, disembodied heads, severed eye balls and corpses, transform them into puppets, and they’re slightly less disturbing for those of us who don’t like that ...

Dirs:Mike Johnson, Tim Burton. UK. 2005. 75mins. Thefirst stop-motion feature directed (in part) by Tim Burton - he produced andwrote The Nightmare Before Christmas - Corpse Bride brings theHollywood ...

Tim Burton never ceases to amaze me in finding beauty in the darkest and grayest of atmospheres. True, set design is his specialty and he has always taken a liking to subjects of a gothic nature, but ...

Tim Burton s Corpse Bride: Animated feature. With the voices of Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and Emily Watson. Directed by Mike Johnson and Tim Burton. (PG. 75 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) ...

In Michael Almereyda’s funny, ardent and moving vampire picture, “Nadja,” the title character, a downtown-Manhattan descendant of Count Dracula’s, sums up the exquisite suffering of her lot: “Life is ...