Watch Vincent by Tim Burton
Good reasons to watch Vincent
This is Tim Burton’s very first animated movie: 5 and a half minutes of poetry, imagination and dark humor around a simple idea…
Vincent Malloy, a lonely young boy, dreams of becoming horror actor Vincent Price. Instead of just being a good boy, he would so much prefer living with bats, invent horrible zombie dogs, and bury his wife alive. If only his mother did not always get in the way!
“Vincent Malloy is seven years old, / He’s always polite and does what he’s told. / For a boy his age he’s considerate and nice, / But he wants to be just like Vincent Price.”
Vincent is poetically narrated by horror movie actor Vincent Price himself (House of Wax, The Fly, The Raven …), one of Tim Burton’s idols. This short movie alternates almost seemlessly between Vincent’s ordinary life and his fantasized impersonation of Vincent Price’s most horrific cinematic doings. Burton uses black-and-white photography to produce dramatic Expressionist effects through strong contrasts. He also intertwines Vincent’s real life and dreamed existence through a rhyming narration that bridges incessantly between the worlds of normality and of horror.
Unter the darkly benevolent shadow of Edgar Allan Poe, on whose work many of Vincent Price’s movies were based, Vincent is a precursor of Burton’s later movies, such as The Nightmare Before Christmas, which used the same stop motion technique of ‘claymation’, and shares the same esthetics as Corpse Bride or Beetlejuice.
Less than 6 minutes long, a shot of Tim Burton’s early genius to drink bottomless!
All You Need to Know about Vincent
1982 - 6 min
Director Tim Burton
Stars Vincent Price
What to drink 2 parts spider slime, 1 part viper venom, a pinch of bat hair cut under the moonshine
