Vincent is a 1982 stop motion short horror film written, designed and directed by Tim Burton, and produced

by Rick Heinrichs.
It is the secondDisney horror film, the first being The Watcher in the Woods. At approximately six minutes in length, there is
currently no individual release of the film except for a few bootleg releases. It can be found on the 2008 Special Edition and
Collector's Edition DVDs of The Nightmare Before Christmas as a bonus feature and on the Cinema16 DVD American Short
Films.
The film is narrated by actor Vincent Price, a lifelong idol and inspiration for Burton. From this relationship, Price would go on
to appear in Burton's Edward Scissorhands. Vincent Price later said that the film was "the most gratifying thing that ever
happened. It was immortality — better than a star on Hollywood Boulevard".[1]
Vincent is the poetry story of a 7-year-old boy, Vincent Malloy, who pretends to be like the actor Vincent Price (who narrates
the film). He does experiments on his dog Abercrombie in order to create a horrible ravenous Zombie dog. He is obsessed
with the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, and it is his detachment from reality when reading them that leads to his delusions that he is
in fact a tortured artist, deprived of the woman he loves, mirroring certain parts of Poe's "The Raven". The film ends with
Vincent feeling terrified of being tortured by the going-ons of his make-believe world, quoting "The Raven" as he falls to the
floor in frailty, believing himself to be dead.

It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels

name Lenore—
And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is
Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels sitting
name Lenore.”
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber
Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.” door;

“Be that word our sign in parting, bird or fiend!” I And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that
shrieked, upstarting— is dreaming,
EDGAR ALLAN POE
(1809-1849) “Get thee back into the tempest and the Night’s And the lamp-light o’er him streaming throws his
Plutonian shore! shadow on the floor;

Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating
hath spoken! on the floor

Leave my loneliness unbroken!—quit the bust above Shall be lifted—nevermore!

my door!

Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form
from off my door!”

Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”


Vincent Malloy ___ seven years old
He___ always polite and ____what he’s told
For a boy his age, he’s considerate and nice
But he ___to be just like Vincent Price
He doesn’t mind ____with his sister, dog and cats
Though he’d rather _____a home with spiders and
bats
There he could ____on the horrors he’s invented
And _____dark hallways, alone and tormented
Vincent is nice when his aunt comes to ____him
But ________dipping her in wax for his wax
museum
He _____to experiment on his dog Abercrombie
In the hopes of ______a horrible zombie
So he and his horrible zombie dog
Could go _______for victims in the London fog
His thoughts, though, aren’t only of ghoulish crimes
He _____to paint and ____to pass some of the
times
While other kids _____books like Go, Jane, Go!
Vincent’s favorite author is Edgar Allen Poe
One night, while reading a gruesome tale
He read a passage that ____him turn pale
Such horrible news he ____not survive
For his beautiful wife had been _____alive!
He dug out her grave to make sure she _____dead
Unaware that her grave ____his mother’s flower
bed
His mother ____Vincent off to his room
He ____he’d been _____to the tower of doom
Where he was _____to spend the rest of his life
Alone with the portrait of his beautiful wife
While alone and insane ______in his tomb
Vincent’s mother burst suddenly into the room
She said: “If you ____to, you can go out and _____
It’s sunny outside, and a beautiful day”
Vincent tried to____, but he just couldn’t speak
The years of isolation had made him quite weak
So he ____ out some paper and scrawled with a
pen:
“I am ________by this house, and can never leave
it again”
His mother said: “You’re not possessed, and you’re
not almost dead
These games that you _____are all in your head
You’re not Vincent Price, you’re Vincent Malloy
You’re not tormented or insane, you’re just a young
boy
You’re seven years old and you are my son
I want you to get outside and have some real fun.
”Her anger now spent, she walked out through the
hall
And while Vincent backed slowly against the wall
The room _____to swell, to shiver and creak
His horrid insanity had _____its peak
He _____Abercrombie, his zombie slave
And ______his wife call from beyond the grave
She _____from her coffin and made ghoulish
demands
While, through cracking walls, _____skeleton hands
Every horror in his life that had crept through his
dreams
Swept his mad laughter to terrified screams!
To ______the madness, he reached for the door
But fell limp and _____down on the floor
His voice was soft and very slow
As he quoted The Raven from Edgar Allen Poe:
“and my soul from out that shadow
that lies floating on the floor
shall be______?
Nevermore…”
Words to use and complete
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