With the cool breeze blowing by recently, it can only mean one thing: fall is approaching, and rather quickly. The creepy, goosebumps season is near! As Halloween tip-toes closer, with only a little over a month to go, the air feels stranger by the day, and what settles that feeling in more than Tim Burton’s classic, “Corpse Bride”?
“Corpse Bride” premiered for the first time at the 62nd Venice International Film Festival on Sept. 7, 2005, before being officially released in theaters on Sept. 23, 2005. As of September, and October of 2025, the stop-motion movie celebrates its 20 years of fame by appearing on the big screen once again! As the years have gone by and technology has advanced further; it was possible to reform the movie into a much better, 4K resolution.
While it wasn’t introduced or intended to be a Halloween movie, it still sparks that spooky feeling we all love. In the beginning of the story, a 19-year-old boy by the name of Victor Van Dort, is set to marry a girl, who is 19 years old as well, named Victoria Everglot in an arranged marriage. Whilst rehearsing his lines in a forest, Victor chooses a hand-like branch to place the ring on, awakening the corpse of a bride, Emily Merrimack, who is still in her wedding dress. Throughout the rest of the story, Victor and Emily navigate The Land of The Dead as he attempts to make it back home in time for the wedding, and must choose between the living-dead girl, and the breathing one awaiting him. This story stems from the brilliant writer Tim Burton who, alongside Allison Abbate, produced the movie beginning in November of 2003.
Although opinions on the movie vary, most of them are on the positive side.
“It is not my favorite Tim Burton movie,” judges statistics teacher Mrs. Anderson, “but it is a lot of fun, and I am excited about the idea of taking my kid to see it in theaters.”
From a personal viewpoint, “Corpse Bride” is a beautifully written and produced movie. The story tells a small lesson while intriguing all observers into what might happen next. The overall stop motion, clay style of the movie, brings it more to life, and forms the characters really well, while telling a sentimental love story.
“I love it so much,” senior Jade Johnson notes, “I love the love story.”
If you are interested in viewing, tickets will be available online, and in person, for participating theaters, such as Cinemark and Marcus Theaters.
