Corpse Bride

The name Tim Burton is synonymous with eccentricity and the macabre, and leading it to this production (actually he’s co-director) is guaranteed to pull an assortment Goths and stray spectres recovering from Halloween excess. Using stop-motion animation, Burton and Mike Johnson create a dark Victorian world of gloomy shadows and ghoulish apparitions in what is in fact a love story that crosses the great divide between living and the dead. With Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham-Carter voicing the protagonist (who physically resemble them in great detail) among a host of other famous names, this is classes Tim Burton: morbid and beautiful, repulsive and enchanting, bizarre and delightful.