Reviews
Six ca.eight-minute animated Shockwave-based shorts, created,
written and directed by Tim Burton, in a cumulative online release by
AtomFilms starting from October 2000
Favourite line:
"Is that your stain or are you happy to see me?"
Track Samples
See right pane.
Did you know...
-
Stainboy, formerly Stain Boy, originated
as a character in Tim Burton's 1997 publication The Melancholy
Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories, subverting the superhero
cultural aesthetic and moral currents into a sweetly pathetic muse
and now to a gamely commentary on social values and expectation
-
Stainboy was originally intended to comprise 26
episodes but only 6 were made. Burton was to move on to directing
Planet of the Apes. (Alison McMahan, The Films of Tim
Burton: Animating Live Action in Hollywood (2005))
-
Members of the "cast" are, typically,
Burton regulars: Glenn Shadix (various voices including Sgt. Glen
Dale) played Otho in Beetlejuice, the Mayor in Nightmare
Before Christmas, and later, Senator Nado in Planet of the
Apes,
Lisa Marie (Match Girl, Stainboy's mother, and Cracker Girl) was
Burton's girlfriend at the time, and also had parts in most of his
movies from this period: Mars Attacks! (the alien everyone
remembers), Vampira in Ed Wood, and Nova in Pota)
( IMDb)
STAIN BOY
Of all the super heroes,
The stranger one by far,
Doesn't have a special power,
Or drive a fancy car.
Next to Superman and Batman,
I guess he must seem tame.
But to me he is quite special,
And Stain Boy is his name.
He can't fly around tall buildings,
Or outrun a speeding train,
The only talent he seems to have
Is to leave a nasty stain.
Sometimes I know it bothers him,
That he can't run or swim or fly,
And because of this one ability,
His dry cleaning bill's sky-high.
|
 |
Track Listing
|
 |
