Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie is a charming homage to classic monster movies

The Nightmare Before Christmas is inescapable this time of year. But fans of Tim Burton-produced stop-motion animated Halloween flicks scored by Danny Elfman should also check out Frankenweenie. Burton directed the 2012 stop-motion film, expanding the live-action short of the same name he made in 1984, to put a kid-focused spin on the story of Frankenstein and other classic monster movies.