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Winona Ryder and Tim Burton's 3rd collaboration. Their previous one, Edward Scissorhands was 21 years earlier.
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This film reunites Tim Burton with Winona Ryder and Catherine O'Hara who previously worked with Burton on Beetlejuice.
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Tim Burton's first film since Big Fish not to feature Johnny Depp, and his first since Sleepy Hollow not to feature Helena Bonham Carter.
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A turtle named "Shelley" is buried in the pet cemetery. Mary Shelley wrote "Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus," the novel on which this film is loosely based.
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Persephone the poodle is named after the Greek nature goddess who was kidnapped by and forcibly married to Hades, god of the underworld and lord of the dead.
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Victor's friend and next-door neighbor is "Elsa Van Helsing", a reference to Abraham Van Helsing, Bram Stoker's Dracula character, and Elsa Lanchester, the original "The Bride of Frankenstein".
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The character Mrs. Frankenstein (Victor's mother) resembles Barbara Bain, once married to Martin Landau, who provides the voice for the character Mr. Rzykruski.
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Nassor is strongly similar in appearance and speech to original 1931 Frankenstein's monster while his hamster is a Mummy. Both Frankenstein and The Mummy where played by the actor Boris Karloff.
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The towns name, New Holland was once the name of the island continent of Australia from the mid 1600s till the 1800s. It was named by the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman after whom the Australian island state Tasmania was named.
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The film was filmed at Three Mills Studios. In the movie, at the fair, there are casks of "Drie Molens" beer. "Drie Molens" in Dutch means "Three Mills".
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Tim Burton created the Weird Girl ("Staring Girl") in his book "The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories" (1997).
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The clock in Victor's attic workshop carries the brand of Miles Paulley, art department assistant coordinator.
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One of Tim Burton's regular actors, Christopher Lee, did not take part in this film, but archive footage of him in Horror of Dracula is watched by Victor's parents on television.
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One of Tim Burton's famed director trademarks is absent from this movie. Most Burton movie opening credits "follow" a person or object, this one's credits do not.
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