Beetlejuice (1988)
Tim Burton’s comedy about a deceased couple haunting their old house and hiring a deranged bio-exorcist to scare out the living family.
Tim Burton
This archive gathers the films directed by Tim Burton reviewed at Master of Worlds: “Beetlejuice (1988)”, “Dumbo (1941 / 2019)”, “James and the Giant Peach (1996)”, “Sleepy Hollow (1999)”, and “The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)” — 5 titles in all. Seen together they show a consistent sensibility across different films. The reviews focus on the direction as craft — what it contributes, how it serves each story, and what separates the work from the ordinary version of the same material. Rather than rank the films, the collection treats them as a body of work worth examining. The list expands as additional titles are added.
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
1999 Tim Burton gothic horror with Johnny Depp as Ichabod Crane investigating Headless Horseman beheadings in 1799 New York.
James and the Giant Peach (1996)
James and the Giant Peach is Henry Selick’s second feature and one of the strangest American family films of the 1990s. Tim Burton produced it. Selick…
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) — Review
The Nightmare Before Christmas is one of the great stop-motion animated productions in cinema history and one of the most distinctive American animated films of the 1990s. Henry Selick directed. Tim Burton produced and developed the story and characters. Caroline Thompson wrote the screenplay. The…
Dumbo (1941 / 2019) — Contrast Review
The Dumbo property exists in two substantial Disney adaptations across nearly eighty years. The 1941 animated production is one of the great classical Disney achievements and the production that financially saved Disney following the substantial commercial disappointment of Fantasia. The 2019 Tim…