Tim Burton
Genuinely witty film about a precocious boy whose dog dies...so he rejuvenates him a la Frankenstein. All done in stop-motion black and white.
The town's adults are largely grotesque caricatures. The monsters that end up threatening it are drawn from classic horror films...dracula, mummy, godzilla, etc. Even the kid's classmates resemble Lugosi, Lorre, Karloff.
Burton has never really grown and developed as a filmmaker...he's still the jr. high school nerdy kid who's obsessed with monsters and icky stuff...and as long as he comes up with films like this that's fine with me. Very entertaining.
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