Tim Burton´s

movies
THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS
Halloween Town is a fantasy world filled
with various monsters and supernatural
beings associated with the holiday. Jack
Skellington, respected by the citizens as the
"Pumpkin King", leads them in organizing
the annual Halloween celebrations.
However, Jack has grown weary of the
same annual routine and wants something
new. Wandering in the woods the next
morning, he encounters six trees containing
doors leading to other holiday-themed
towns and enters the one for Christmas
Town. Awed by the unfamiliar holiday, Jack
returns to Halloween Town to show the
residents his findings, but unaware of the
idea of Christmas, they compare everything
to their ideas of Halloween.
Corpse´s Bride
In an unnamed Victorian town, Victor Van Dort, the
son of nouveau riche fish merchants, and Victoria
Everglot, the abused and unloved daughter of
impoverished aristocrats, prepare for their
arranged marriage, which will simultaneously raise
the social class of Victor's parents and restore the
wealth of Victoria's family ("According to Plan").
Although they fall in love instantly, the nervous
Victor ruins their wedding rehearsal by forgetting
his vows and clumsily setting Lady Everglot's dress
on fire. Fleeing to a nearby forest, he practices his
vows with a tree and places his wedding ring on an
upturned root. However, the root is revealed to be
the finger of a dead woman named Emily, who rises
from the grave claiming that she is now Victor's
wife, and spirits him away to the Land of the Dead.
Edward´s Scissorshands
One evening, an elderly woman tells her granddaughter
the story of a young man named Edward who has
scissor blades for hands. As the creation of an old
inventor, Edward is a humanoid who is almost
completed. The Inventor homeschools Edward, but
suffers a heart attack and dies before giving real hands
to Edward, leaving him permanently "unfinished".Many
years later, Peg Boggs, a local door-to-door Avon
saleswoman, tries to sell at the decrepit Gothic mansion
where Edward lives. She finds Edward alone and offers
to take him to her home after discovering he is virtually
harmless. Peg introduces Edward to her husband Bill,
their young son Kevin and their teenage daughter Kim.
Edward falls in love with Kim, despite her initially fearing
him. As their neighbors are curious about their new
houseguest, the Boggs throw a neighborhood barbecue
welcoming Edward.
Miss Peregrine´s Home for Peculiar Children
A 16-year-old boy named Jacob
Portman arrives, thanks to his
grandfather, on a mysterious island.
There, in "Miss Peregrine's Home for
Peculiar Children", she helps a group
of orphaned children with different
abilities and characteristics.