‘Wednesday’: Tim Burton Explains the Backstory Behind the Haunting Stop-Motion Animation Scene

There’s something comforting in Tim Burton using stop-motion animation to tell the chilling story of a long-dead, misguided young student in the new season of Wednesday. As every fan of The Nightmare Before Christmas or his creepy-crawly creatures from Beetlejuice already knows, the filmmaker has a long history with the format. What might surprise even his most ardent followers, however, is just how far back this obsession goes. Like the Netflix series about Jenna Ortega’s macabre young…