Tim Burton's Corpse Bride Trailer

Apparently, Tim's latest stop motion animated feature film (based on a 19th Century Russian folktale, where a man mistakenly weds a corpse) is nearing completion in London, as there now is a trailer available over at Apple's Website. It's actually been available since January. You can really tell from the picture that it is Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter, right? Here's short synopsis of the story, to wet your appetite...

Once upon a time there was a young man who lived in a village in Russia. He was to be married and he and his friend prepared to go to the village where his bride-to-be lived, two days walk from his own village.

The first night the two friends decided to set up camp by a river. The young man who was going to be married spotted an unusual looking stick in the ground that looked like a bony finger. He and his friend started joking about this bony finger sticking out of the ground and the young man who was going to be married took the golden wedding ring from his pocket and put it on the strange-looking stick. And then he started to do the wedding dance around the stick; he danced around the stick with the golden wedding ring three times and he sang the Jewish wedding song, and recited the entire marriage sacrament as he danced around the stick, he and his friend laughing the whole time.

Their fun stopped suddenly when the earth started rumbling and shaking beneath their feet. The place where the stick had been opened up and a very bedraggled looking corpse emerged, a living corpse, she had been a bride, but now was barely more than a skeleton held together by shreds of skin, still wearing an old torn white silk wedding dress. Worms and spider webs hung on the once-beaded bodice and tattered veil.

The two young men were aghast.

"Ah," she said, "you have done the wedding dance and pronounced the marriage vows and you have put a ring on my finger. Now we are man and wife. I demand my rights as your bride."

Now doesn't that sound real horrorshow? If it is even close to being as good as Nightmare Before Christmas was I'm one happy camper. Burton rarely makes a bad movie, and this looks just fantastic!