Old Spook Lane Creepy Chats: Corpse Bride

In this episode of Old Spook Lane Creepy Chats, Arun and Patricia
concludes Tim Burton Month with looking back at the 2005 stop
motion animated film Corpse Bride. Based on a Jewish folktale
named The Finger, Corpse Bride takes place in a Victorian town in
England where a young man named Victor, the son of fishmongers,
is arranged to being married to the daughter of an aristocratic
family named Victoria. After completely forgetting his wedding
vows during rehearsal, Victor runs into the woods and places the
wedding ring on a branch while practicing his vows. But it turns
out that the "branch" is a finger belonging to a corpse of a
woman named Emily who was killed before her wedding day from her
lover. Now Victor is married to a dead woman and tries his best
to get away from the world of the dead to return to the world of
the living and Victoria before the sun rises and she would end up
marrying a lord.


Corpse Bride made $118 million dollars on a $40 million dollar
budget receiving positive reviews from critics for its animation,
spooky atmosphere, music, and story. However, in recent years, it
has been seen as "mediocre" from animation fans saying it isn't
as good as The Nightmare Before Christmas or Coraline when it
comes to spooky stop motion animated films. This is Patricia's
first time watching it, while Arun has seen it several times.
What did they think of the film? Listen and find out.