Childhood revisited. Wonderfully macabre, it oddly echoes the heart of Edgar Allan Poe, portraying in cadence the soul of evil at its bud, or simply a child's inner world which judges everything in a B&W way - as illustrated by the gloomy visuals - and easily succumbs to the siren calls of punishment for those too drab and simpleminded to understand or follow, sinks in a world of darkness, rests in a bed of claws and falls into morbid daydreams. Who hasn't dreamed of being Vincent Price?

The film has nice visuals, it's hard to dispute, and there are sections that manage to raise a chuckle, but the poem itself is diabolically badly-written and jarringly slipshod to the extent where even Price's narration can't save it. It's better than most of Burton's films, but it's proof that he is -- and always has been -- a one-trick pony.

An amazing and macabre animation by great Tim Burton.

Best narrating I've ever heard.

Vincent is a nice little short and all, but it's not the mind-blower it's often cracked up to be. Nothing here is particularly brilliant, fun, or clever. Disappointing.

If you want something in verse, stick to the meter.

Excellent little short.

3/5

Vincent Price's sweet voice is the only thing this has got going for it. A template for the Butonization to follow over the next two decades.

It's funny seeing a short by Burton where he mocks the gothic aesthetic rather than adhering to it blindly as he later would. This is very amusing and delightful, theatrical in all the right ways.

Burton's best film, even though I really like the Batman ones as well as Mars Attacks!