Vincent (1982)

Vincent
DirectorTim Burton
Genredrama film, fantasy film, horror film
Runtime6 min
CountryUnited States
Budget$60,000

Plot

Vincent is the story, told in rhyming verse, of a 7-year-old boy, Vincent Malloy, who pretends to be like the actor Vincent Price (who narrates the film). He does experiments on his dog Abercrombie in order to create a horrible ravenous zombie dog. He is obsessed with the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, and it is his detachment from reality when reading them that leads to him seeing himself as a tortured artist and mad scientist, deprived of the woman he loves, mirroring certain parts of Poe's "The Raven". His mother dismisses his delusions and tells him to go outside and have "some real fun", to no avail. The film ends with Vincent feeling terrified of being tortured by the going-ons of his make-believe world, quoting "The Raven" as he falls to the floor in frailty, believing himself to be dead.

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