Before things took off with "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" and "Beetlejuice," Tim Burton made a live-action black-and-white film, in 1984, called "Frankenweenie." You can find it on YouTube. It's really ...

The original half-hour version of "Frankenweenie" almost did Tim Burton in. Rather than release it in 1984, the folks at Disney sent Burton packing. He then became one of the most talented filmmakers ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Tim Burton's "Frankenweenie", a black-and-white animated tale of a boy and his dog, will be the opening picture at this year's London film festival, organizers announced on Thursday ...

When young Victor's pet dog Sparky (who stars in Victor's home-made monster movies) is hit by a car, Victor decides to bring him back to life the only way he knows ...

Tim Burton’s “Frankenweenie” (a longer, very faithful version of Burton’s 1984 short film of the same name) concerns a boy and his dog, Sparky, and a madcap experiment, in a town of mad scientists in ...

There’s never a shortage of horror movies in October as Halloween draws near. But the gorefests often made today bear little resemblance to the classics known by adults of every age from endless ...