"Stop Motion With Devilishly Excellent 4K Detail"
Warner Bros. are releasing Tim Burton's animated movie CORPSE BRIDE on 4K UHD in standard, steelbook, and a posh collectors' edition that has the steelbook, two double-sided posters, eight characters sketch cards, four storyboard sketches stickers, and a 'Corpse Bridge' zine.
Victor Van Dort (Johnny Depp) is due to be married to Victoria Everglot (Emily Watson) in the chapel of Pastor Galswells (Christopher Lee). But Victor fluffs his marriage vows and goes off to the nearby creepy Tim Burton forest to practice. Unfortunately when he does get them right the corpse of Emily (Helena Bonham Carter) rises from the dead, considers herself married to him, and drags him down to the underworld.
Meanwhile, as Victor has disappeared, the slimy Barkis Bitten (Richard E Grant) offers to marry Victoria himself, and of course he has a hidden agenda. Will Victor get back topside, possibly with aid of a skeleton with a Michael Gough voice? Are there plenty of songs? Does Victor get reunited with his deceased pet dog Sparky?
You can probably guess the answers. While CORPSE BRIDE isn't perhaps quite as good as NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS it's still a delightful, charming piece of Burton-style Gothic. Warners' new 4K transfer allows you to see a lot more detail on the puppets (and indeed their costumes) and the voice roles include, as well as the above, Tracey Ullman, Paul Whitehouse, Joanna Lumley and Jane Horrocks, with Danny Elfman providing an excellent score and some memorable songs.
The UHD disc comes with two new extras - The Minds Behind Corpse Bride (9 minutes) and Corpse Bride Reflections (6 minutes), both of which have screenwriter John August, producer Allison Abbate and co-director Mike Johnson discussing the film 20 years on. The rest of the extras are a bundle of ported over little featurettes from 2005 includingInside the Two Worlds of Corpse Bride (4 minutes), Making Puppets Tick (7 minutes), The Animators (7 minutes), Pre-Production Galleries (14 minutes and fascinating if you're into how the puppets went from metal frames to film), Tim Burton: Dark Vs Light (4 minutes) Danny Elfman Interprets the Two World (6 minutes) and two good pieces on the voice cast: Voices from the Underworld (6 minutes) and The Voices Behind the Voice (8 minutes).
Tim Burton's CORPSE BRIDE is out on 4K UHD and Digital from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment in standard, steelbook and collectors' editions on Monday 22nd September 2025
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