Tim Burton last directed Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
Tim Burton’s Wednesday series has resurrected the macabre Addams Family, led by the infamous pig-tailed title character . From the original comic strip, television series, and the '90s movies, the Addams are the epitome of goth, dread, darkness, and unashamed outcasts.
Burton is known for his unique dark style that became a perfect way to bring Wednesday to life for modern audiences. Before the Netflix series, another movie he directed laid down the stepping stones for Wednesday to be a success. While Burton’s prior works like Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow, and Corpse Bride do the job of enticing chills and scary thrills, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children fits the bill as having more in common with Wednesday than any other movie. A group of outcasts attends a special school to stay safe from true evil and be true to themselves. Sound familiar? What Is ‘Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children’ About? Based on the novel of the same name by Ransom Riggs and released in 2016, Burton's Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is a dark fantasy adventure that follows 16-year-old Jake Portman . Once an ordinary boy, his life takes a drastic turn after the mysterious death of his grandfather. Haunted by his grandfather’s last words and curious about the fantastic stories he used to tell, Jake travels with his father to a remote island in Wales to uncover the truth. Jake soon discovers the ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, which, thanks to a time loop, still exists exactly as it did in 1943. The home is inhabited by “peculiar” children with unique supernatural abilities. There’s a girl who can control fire, a boy filled with bees, and an invisible teen, among others. Miss Peregrine is their strict but protective headmistress who can transform and manipulate time. She protects the children from terrifying monsters who wish to harm them. Along the way, Jake soon discovers his own hidden identity. ‘Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children’ Has Its Own Brand of Outcasts At first glance, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children sounds like another version of Nevermore. They both center around secluded schools for unusual young people under the protection of a headmistress, whose main goal is to protect her students from outside harm. All the while, there’s always a big bad lurking around, hellbent on using the outcasts for their own gain. Both worlds are steeped in Burton's gothic aesthetic, with a mix of dark fantasy, coming-of-age themes, and a celebration of being a misfit. The 2016 movie set the groundwork by proving that there was a strong appetite for gothic, teen-centered fantasy that blends the eerie with the emotions, especially paired with Burton’s unique visual style and sensibilities. Wednesday builds on the same aesthetic with a more modern twist as the students of Nevermore are free to roam among normies. Both the movie and series embrace the theme of found family and one’s strangeness being the center of both projects. It sparks a direct link to young audiences looking for stories about identity and acceptance. Wednesday and Miss Peregrine also have similar protagonists. While Wednesday has no fear of being herself, she goes through an empowered hero arc of self-discovery. She also lets people into her inner circle who become important to her, even if she refuses to admit it. Jake follows the same path of uncovering that he never truly belonged in the normal world, and accepts the children with open arms and no judgment. Like Wednesday, he becomes a hero to protect his newfound family. ‘Wednesday’ and 'Miss Peregrine' are Proudly Tout Tim Burton’s Gothic Horror Aesthetic The aesthetic similarities between Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children are unmistakable and deeply rooted in Burton’s distinct visual language. Both projects showcase his signature gothic style, creating atmospheric worlds that feel eerie, elegant, and otherworldly without losing sight of emotional warmth. In Miss Peregrine, the titular home is a grand, Victorian-style mansion surrounded by misty woods and crumbling ruins. It’s a dreamlike sanctuary trapped in a 1940s time loop. Similarly, Wednesday’s Nevermore Academy is a sprawling Gothic castle perched in the woods of Vermont, isolated from the outside world and rich in haunted history. Both settings feel like characters in their own right, mysterious, timeless, and dripping with visual symbolism. Burton’s love for the creepy yet beautiful is fully realized in both worlds. From stop-motion monsters in Miss Peregrine to the living paintings and crawling body parts in Wednesday, there’s a shared fascination with the grotesque and playful side of the macabre. What’s gothic without some taxidermy, kids with chomping teeth, and some shapeshifting? Let’s not forget that Burton’s color palette is iconic, using muted, desaturated color schemes punctuated by bold, contrasting details. Miss Peregrine uses soft blues, grays, and sepia tones to create a more vintage feel, offset by bursts of color, such as bright blonde hair, a bright, vibrant carrot, and the greenery of the home garden. Wednesday stays true to Burton’s color palette with overcast gray shades, Wednesday in her signature black, and the deep purples of Nevermore. Add in sprinkles of color, like the difference between how normies dress versus the students, the bright blue eyes of a siren, or Enid’s colorful rainbow look. Burton’s taste for costuming is also evident in Wednesday and Miss Peregrine’s sharp collars, dark ensembles, and layered blacks, which blend old-world fashion with a modern twist. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children might as well exist within the same universe as Wednesday, just in a different part of the world. Both of Burton’s works are cut from the same gothic cloth, feeding into themes of the macabre and the mysterious. At their core, they explore what it means to be different and are filled with characters who don’t quite fit in, adults who harbor secrets, and a magical world of chaos. Burton builds the perfect atmosphere in Wednesday that’s true to his famed outlook on the bizarre, and Miss Peregrine was just the appetizer before the Netflix series. Your Rating close 10 stars 9 stars 8 stars 7 stars 6 stars 5 stars 4 stars 3 stars 2 stars 1 star Rate Now 0/10 Your comment has not been saved Like Follow Followed Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children PG-13 Fantasy Adventure 7.0/10 Release Date September 30, 2016 Runtime 127 minutes Cast See All Director Tim Burton Writers Jane Goldman Budget $110 million Studio 20th Century Distributor 20th Century Powered by Expand Collapse
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