slashfilm.com — Early in his career, Tim Burton directed a modern gothic violent retelling of Hansel and Gretel. Never heard of it before? It exists - although little evidence of its existence can be found. Even worse, chances are that if you haven’t seen it, you never will.
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geekuskhanJan 1, 2008
I'm calling bulls**t on this entire article. The guy knows no one who has actually seen the film? Also he states definitively that it aired on the Disney Channel on Halloween night 1982. I mean that's pretty specific. But its also bulls**t since according to Wikipedia the Disney Channel made it's first broadcast on April 18 1983.Either this guy is just making stuff up or someone is pulling his leg.
lordsteveJan 1, 2008
The trick to making a name for yourself in any kind of art form is to make all of your stuff look/feel the same. Some just go farther off the beaten path than others. If you don't like it, don't watch it, but don't complain.
PaulTheBookGuyJan 2, 2008
Wikipedia is a big pile of crap dumped out by a bunch of idiots, and moderated by another bunch of idiots. Who cares what wikipedia says.
m0thilyJan 3, 2008
(Spoilers possible below:)I have to weigh in and say that I have seen and do own a copy of this on VHS (somewhere!)... For the longest time, I was trying to figure out *what it is* (other than a slightly demented version of Hansel and Gretel), how to buy a copy on DVD or watch it online, because it's floating somewhere in my 8,000 boxes of old VHS tapes. It was taped for me by my great-aunt, and my brother and friends and I have been watching it and laughing about it for years. If this is the one we're talking about, it shows two kids, a brother and sister, who wander out into the forest and wind up in an edible house (inhabited by an evil witch, who happens to also be their stepmother/mother). My favorite quote from this is when a deranged stop-motion or puppet gingerbread man says to Hansel: "If you want my body, and you thank I'm tasty, come on, Hansel, take a bite!"I checked on iMDB's photos, and Michael Yama is one of the characters I remember, but I'm pretty sure he played the evil (step-?)mother basically in drag, not Gretel, as iMDB says... I could be wrong, but yeah.Maybe if we add it to our Amazon wish lists, the studio will consider releasing it, on a Tim Burton collection of shorts or something?
dafrakJan 7, 2008
hello yohenyo just wanted to know where abouts you have downloaded it from thank you
frankenfagMar 24, 2008
"somewhere in my 8,000 boxes of old VHS tapes"get to work.
Jeff_BronsonDec 14, 2009
Ok, I'd like to find this online to watch, regardless of similar design elements in many of his films, they are still entertaining and macabre.
themonarch122Mar 2, 2010
Yes. It's real. I saw part of it at the Moma exhibit.Did not know it was so rare.