Tim Burton’s 10 Best Movie Adaptations

5) Frankenweenie

Many have accused Tim Burton of plagiarizing himself in his recent movies, but that is legitimately what he did with 2012’s Frankenweenie, a feature-length stop-motion adaptation of his own live-action short film from the 1980s. While it doesn’t quite have the spark of 2005’s Corpse Bride, the movie is a welcome slice of classic Burton that comfortably sits in the upper-middle section of his filmography.

Retelling the Frankenstein legend as a story about the lengths a boy would go to save his beloved dog, Frankenweenie is a fairly slight, touching tale that acts – as many of his films do – as an homage to the monster movies Burton loved as a boy. Uniting old-school Burton collaborators like Martin Short, Winona Ryder and Martin Landau, it was also the first film since 2003 that the director had made without Johnny Depp.