Caroline Thompson Archives

Edward Scissorhands (1990)

Rating: ★★★★

Jul 5, 2002Alienated Artificial Boy

Tim Burton and Johnny Depp in one of their best collaborations. Burton creates this sweet oddball fable that is a take on Frankenstein where the monster becomes an alienated youth with scissors for hands

Director: Tim Burton

Actors: Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Alan Arkin, Dianne Wiest, …

Category: Fantasy

5 July 200230 January 2026 by Roog

The Addams Family (1991)

Rating: ★★★½

Apr 1, 1999Kinky Perverse Family

The big screen version of the 1960s tv series and Charles Addams' cartoons is a highly enjoyable Hollywood Halloween Party, a chance for name actors to put on costume and ape life with a ghoulish, mildly perverse, moderately subversive spin

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld

Actors: Raul Julia, Anjelica Huston, Christina Ricci, Christopher Lloyd, …

Category: Fantasy

1 April 199920 November 2022 by Roog

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

Rating: ★★★★★

Feb 8, 2004Halloween Denizens Take Over Christmas/Stop-Motion Animation

Tim Burton and Henry Selick combine on this stop-motion animated fantasy made in Burton's characteristcially eccentric style, a beautifully stylised and dark fantasy in which assorted Halloween denizens invade Christmas

Director: Henry Selick

Actors: Chris Sarandon, Danny Elfman, Catherine O'Hara, William Hickey, …

Category: Fantasy

8 February 200423 April 2020 by Roog

Snow White (2001)

Rating: ★★★

Jun 29, 2008Fairy-Tale

Caroline Thompson, a regular Tim Burton scriptwriter, directs a uniquely revisionist version of the fairytale in which she digs in to explain the origins of many of the familiar aspects of the story

Director: Caroline Thompson

Actors: Miranda Richardson, Kristin Kreuk, Clancy Brown, Michael J. Anderson, …

Category: Fantasy

29 June 20085 October 2024 by Roog

Corpse Bride (2005)

Rating: ★★★★

Oct 31, 2005Stop-Motion Animated Gothic

Tim Burton's successor to The Nightmare Before Christmas where Burton co-directs another venture into stop-motion animation that takes place in a similar dark and beautifully stylised world

Director: Mike Johnson, Tim Burton

Actors: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson, Joanna Lumley, …

Category: Fantasy

31 October 200511 January 2026 by Roog

City of Ember (2008)

Rating: ★★★★

Aug 13, 2009Young Adult/Underground City

Excellent Young Adult adapted work about teenagers in a vast underground city coming to an awareness of the forgotten surface world. The underground world is a production designer's marvel

Director: Gil Kenan

Actors: Saoirse Ronan, Harry Treadaway, Bill Murray, Tim Robbins, …

Category: Science Fiction

13 August 200929 September 2025 by Roog

Welcome to Marwen (2018)

Rating: ★★

Apr 12, 2019Man Builds a Fantasy Doll Village/True Story

Robert Zemeckis of Back to the Future and Forrest Gump fame makes a film of the true-life story of Mark Hogancamp who recovered from a brutal assault by building a fantasy village of dolls. The results are bizarre where Zemeckis seems more interested in making a Sucker Punch-like fantasy where the dolls come to life

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Actors: Steve Carell, Leslie Mann, Merritt Wever, Eiza Gonzalez, …

Category: Fantasy

12 April 201915 September 2022 by Roog