‘Wednesday’ Fans, Add These 10 Tim Burton Movies to Your Watchlist

New audiences might be familiar with Tim Burton thanks to Netflix’s horror-ish hit Wednesday, but the director’s real fans know there’s so much behind the series that built Burton’s path as a child-friendly horror master.

Now mostly helming Wednesday as an executive producer and sometimes as a director, Burton will be on board for the show’s third season that doesn’t have a premiere date yet.

However, Wednesday’s season 2 part 2 is coming soon with two more episodes helmed by Burton and released alongside two more on September 3.

In case you’re tired waiting for an update on the titular character’s major cliffhanger in the first part’s finale, here are some other options from Tim Burton that will make you his most definite fan.

‘Alice in Wonderland’ (2010)

• On Rotten Tomatoes, Alice in Wonderland holds scores of 51% and 55% from critics and audiences
• On IMDb, the movie is rated 6.4/10

Tim Burton’s visually surreal reimagining of Lewis Carroll’s tale of the same name, the movie adapts the director’s feature gothic style in a combination of live-action and CGI as it follows Alice to the Underland where a despotic Queen rules.

‘Sleepy Hollow’ (1999)

• On Rotten Tomatoes, Sleepy Hollow has scores of 71% and 80% from critics and viewers
• On IMDb, the movie rates 7.3/10

Starring Johnny Depp, the horror follows Ichabod Crane, a New York constable sent to investigate mysterious murders in the village of Sleepy Hollow.

With time, he uncovers a terrifying legend about a Headless Horseman that starts haunting Crane alongside his own inner demons.

‘Beetlejuice’ (1988)

• On Rotten Tomatoes, Beetlejuice keeps scores of 83% and 82% from critics and audiences
• On IMDb, the movie’s rating is 7.4/10

Burton’s cult classic surreal comedy, the movie centres on a deceased couple’s ghosts trying to drive out new owners out of their home, getting some help from an eccentric exorcist called Beetlejuice.

‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ (2024)

• On Rotten Tomatoes, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice holds scores of 75% and 78% from critics and viewers
• On IMDb, the movie is rated 6.6/10

A follow-up to 1988’s Beetlejuice, the movie finds the Deetz family’s three generations decades after they first moved into the mansion, this time also having to deal with the mischievous and sometimes pretty annoying Beetlejuice.

‘Big Fish’ (2003)

• On Rotten Tomatoes, Big Fish has scores of 76% and 89% from critics and audiences
• On IMDb, the movie rates 8/10

Blending numerous flashbacks with the principal narrative, the movie follows a young man who tries to separate truth from fiction as his dying father recounts his fantastic-sounding life.

‘Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride’ (2005)

• On Rotten Tomatoes, Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride has scores of 84% and 77% from critics and viewers
• On IMDb, the movie is rated 7.4/10

One of Tim Burton’s feature animated works, the movie is inspired by a Jewish folktale and follows a shy groom who, while practicing his wedding vows, accidentally summons a deceased young woman who assumes that he’s now married to her.

‘Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street’ (2007)

• On Rotten Tomatoes, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street keeps scores of 86% and 81% from critics and audiences
• On IMDb, the movie’s rating is 7.3/10

Starring Burton’s favorites Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter, the movie follows Benjamin Barker who returns to London after years spent in an exile and seeks revenge for corrupt Judge William Turpin who stole Barker’s wife Lucy.

After finding an accomplice, Barker starts a series of horrifying murders and disguises his victims’ corpses as pie meat.

‘Frankenweenie’ (2012)

• On Rotten Tomatoes, Frankenweenie holds scores of 87% and 70% from critics and viewers
• On IMDb, the movie is rated 6.9/10

Based on Mary Shelley’s gothic novel Frankenstein, the animated movie centres on Victor Frankenstein who brings his beloved dog back to life, but doesn’t know yet what consequences the magical resurrection will have.

‘Edward Scissorhands’ (1990)

• On Rotten Tomatoes, Edward Scissorhands keeps scores of 90% and 91% from critics and audiences
• On IMDb, the movie rates 7.8/10

One of Tim Burton’s most beloved works, the movie stars Johnny Depp as an artificial humanoid with scissors instead of hands who struggles to be accepted into the society.

However, when a suburban family decides to take him in, Edward falls in love with their teenage daughter.

‘Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas’ (1993)

• On Rotten Tomatoes, Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas has scores of 95% and 92% from critics and viewers
• On IMDb, the movie’s rating is 7.9/10

Despite being directed by Henry Selick, the movie belongs to Tim Burton’s own artistic vision.

The Nightmare Before Christmas follows Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, who decides to take over the holiday in Christmas Town, but then finds himself in pretty confusing consequences of such a thought.