Tim Burton likes to make family movies scary
Filmaker Tim Burton thinks it is fine to make his family movies scary – because he wasn’t easily frightened as a child.
The acclaimed director – whose latest animated adventure ‘Frankenweenie’ has some frightening scenes – insisted watching “monster” films when he was young never harmed him.
He said: “I grew up on horror. I loved monster movies, films they don’t show on television nowadays. It never bothered me. I was three, four, five years old watching these movies.”
However, Tim – who has children Billy, eight, and Nell, four, with partner Helena Bonham Carter – admits he is sometimes shocked by the content of children’s stories when he reads with his kids.
He added to Time Out magazine: “I’ve always felt kids are their own best barometer of what they can take. My little girl is four and when we read fairytales, even I’m a bit shocked.
“Fairytales are pretty hardcore, but they’re also a way of kids exploring things like death without it being too traumatic. What fascinates me more is that parents forget all that.”
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