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Tim Burton’s 10 Best Movie Adaptations

Tim Burton, cinema’s so-called Master of the Macabre, is most known for his unique cinematic style and quirky, gothic creations – think Beetlejuice or Edward Scissorhands. Most of his oeuvre, however, is made up of adaptations of pre-existing works, ranging from books to comics to old soap operas.

5) Frankenweenie

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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.

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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.

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