Gothic in movies

'Tim Burton is a producer, motion artist, film director, poet, writer, artist, and the man behind the films with dark fantasy, spooky and horror. Most of his films gives off a dark gothic feel. The characters usually have sad stories and have painful, lonesome childhood. Some has experienced true rejection while growing up and others see themselves as a failure. The characters have pale skin and they wear dark gothic clothing. Some were set in Victorian and Medieval era. Monsters and weird characters were always there.'

- A Peek Into Tim Burton's Gothic Films And Style Tips - Part 1. By Cherish MarasiganJune 20, 2014- http://www.rebelsmarket.com/blog/posts/a-peek-into-tim-burton-s-gothic-films-and-style-tips-part-1

'Anybody that has seen a Tim Burton film will recognise that the director has a fondness for costumes with a 19th century Victorian flavour, even if the story is set in more modern times. But he is equally inspired by the famed stories and cartoon drawings of Dr. Seuss. This can be seen time and time again with characters wearing an array of clothing designed in black-and-white stripes. Elsewhere, leading ladies and heroines often sport flowing blonde locks, pale white faces and exquisite gowns akin to Pre-Raphaelite paintings. Burton is a man steeped in the history of art and his synthesising of different periods and eras is humorous and striking.

- GOTHIC MEETS SUBURBIA -

The director’s visual imagination often sees Gothic architecture and atmosphere brought together with his own upbringing in sunny Los Angeles. It shouldn’t work at all—a world of darkness, wild moors and haunted castles crossed with pastel-coloured bungalows, picket fences and verdant green lawns as American as apple pie. And yet in merging these unlikely worlds, Burton struck creative gold. The contrast is there in nearly all his films. The ruined castle perched above suburbia in “Edward Scissorhands” is a classic Burton touch. Gothic suburbia is revisited again, in animated form, in “Frankenweenie.” In “Dark Shadows,” the Gothic mansion owned by the Collins family is hidden back in the trees above the fishing port of Collinsport.'

- MARTYN CONTERIO, March 4th 2015 http://illusion.scene360.com/art/75828/tim-burton-film-analysis/