After discussing Beetlejuice costumes yesterday we started thinking just how many Tim Burton films we can offer costumes for – Halloween may be gone, but there are always plenty of Movies parties out there (a Hollywood theme may be a little debatable as, these days, Burton makes most of his films here in England, where he now lives). Anyway, we digress.

Last week we were noting such characters as the Corpse Bride and Edward Scissorhands in connection with Halloween, and of course Jack Skellington and Sally the Rag Doll arguably have links with both Halloween and Christmas. In addition to this, not Halloween–based as such, but still macabre, we have Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber, and his accomplice and pie-maker, Mrs Lovett. Burton has also made his mark on some favourite storybook characters – Willie Wonka and Alice in Wonderland, and even reinvented superheroes, with the second re-launch of Batman, Jack Nicholson’s Joker and the PVC-clad Catwoman in the 1990’s. Other films such as Big Fish and Sleepy Hollow are less costume-rich (there is a Headless Horseman outfit, but it’s a decorative harness for dogs!)

His current projects include a film based on a sort of Addams-family-style soap opera of the 1960s – Dark Shadows – and a remake of one of his early film projects – Frankenweenie (the Frankenstein story with a canine twist. You can find the original on the Nightmare Before Christmas DVD). Not sure what costumes there will be, but if they exist, we will have them!