Before things took off with "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" and "Beetlejuice," Tim Burton made a live-action black-and-white film, in 1984, called "Frankenweenie." You can find it on YouTube. It's really ...

The grownups think he’s strange, this quiet boy who may be a genius or a menace. He makes bizarre home movies about his beloved pit bull terrier, and when the creature is killed, he resolves to bring ...

In 1984 Tim Burton launched his career with a live-action short named "Frankenweenie," and now he returns to that material for the new "Frankenweenie," which is a stop-action black-and-white comedy ...

Ever since Mars Attacks!, Tim Burton has mostly been in the adaptation business, rendering dark and becurlicued Sleepy Hollows, Alice in Wonderlands, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factorys. With ...

Frankenweenie, the story of a young science nerd who brings his dead dog back to life with a blast from a lightning bolt, is an expansive adaptation by Tim Burton of his 1984 live-action short of the ...

If you’re a horror fan with a taste for the gothic and you’ve already wrapped your first (or, like us, definitely-not-first) watch of Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, you’re probably hungry for more ...

Shelley Duvall was a woman who couldn't help but make everything she did feel far more whimsical and spontaneous than it was on the page. Fittingly for a woman who spearheaded the production of a ...