“A hearse, the curse and some twisted verse.”
The Curse of Eleanor Crabtree is a short film by James Cowen that tells the tale of a woman cursed by immortality and the extreme steps she takes to be reunited with her murdered fiance. Inspired in part by the wonderful Tim Burton’s ‘A Nightmare before Christmas’, this black comedy is set in a surreal world stuck somewhere between the 18th Century and the 1950s. The film fuses animation and live action techniques to construct a unique and hilarious slice of life, told as a rhyming poem.
Rather immodestly, I freaking love this score. It’s not often I get to put my Danny Elfman hat on…
