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You're going about your day, happily embalming the dearly departed on your gurney, when you see an ominous woman ... of eldritch horror set in a twisted nightmare vision of Victorian Europe.

We examine one of the most erratic, yet singular, directing careers in modern Hollywood. Let us return to the world of Tim Burton.