Tim Burton made this short film in 1982. It's our second animated movie of the 'Fest and, like Rango, it's fairly meta. The film's about a young boy who loathes his pleasant suburban existence. He'd rather be horror film legend Vincent Price than boring old Vincent Malloy. Hilariously, it's actually narrated by Price himself, who said later that the film was "the most gratifying thing that ever happened. It was immortality—better than a star on Hollywood Boulevard." Clocking in a little under 7 minutes, Burton heaps on the atmosphere, as if he was trying to expunge Disney (where he worked early on) out of his system. It's set to a Dr Seussian poem, which you can read here. It features lush rhymes like this:
His thoughts, though, aren’t only of ghoulish crimesYou can listen to its main theme here:
He likes to paint and read to pass some of the times
While other kids read books like Go, Jane, Go!
Vincent’s favourite author is Edgar Allen Poe
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