Tim Burton's Vincent

This is Vincent, a 1982 stop-motion short film written, designed and directed by Tim Burton and Rick Heinrichs. It's narrated by actor Vincent Price, a life-long idol and inspiration for Tim Burton.

Vincent is the story of a young boy, Vincent Malloy, who pretends to be like the actor Vincent Price. He is obsessed with the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, and it is his detachment from reality when reading them that leads to his delusions that he is in fact a tortured artist, deprived of the woman he loves, mirroring certain parts of Poe's "The Raven".

This is sinister beauty at it's best. Tim Burton is a genius.