Vincent

Ač takřka úplná prvotina Tima Burtona, Vincent je skvělou ochutnávkou a předzvěstí toho, co nám pan pohádkář zatím dal (a snad ještě mnohem více dá). Je mým oblíbeným kouskem hrůzy a upomínkou na to, že dětské fantazie se nemají brát na lehkou váhu, stejně jako ukázkou toho, jak lze poctít své hrdiny. A k tomu všemu je i libozvučný, svůj a - krásný. Stovka jako bič. (06.02.2006)

"Vincent Malloy is seven years old, he's always polite and does what he's told. For a boy his age he's considerate and nice, but he wants to be just like Vincent Price. He doesn't mind living with his sister, dog and cats, though he'd rather share a home with spiders and bats. There he could reflect on the horrors he's invented, and wander dark allways alone and tormented. Vincent is nice when his aunt comes to see him, but imagines dipping her in wax for his wax museum. He likes to experiment on his dog Abacrombie, in the hopes of creating a horrible zombie. So he and his horrible zombie dog, could go searching for victims in the London fog. His thoughts though aren't only of ghoulish crime, he likes to paint and read to pass some of the time. While other kids read books like *Go Jane Go*, Vincent's favorite author is Edgar Allan Poe. One night while reading a gruesome tale, he read a passage that made him turn pale. Such horrible news he could not survive, for his beautiful wife had been buried alive. He dug out her grave to make sure she was dead, unaware that her grave was his mother's flower bed. His mother sent Vincent off to his room, he knew he'd been banished to the tower of doom. Where he was sentenced to spend the rest of his life, alone with a portrait of his beautiful wife. While alone and insane, encased in his tomb, Vincent's mother burst suddenly into the room. She said: "If you want to, you can go out and play. It's sunny outside and a beautiful day." Vincent tried to talk, but he just couldn't speak, the years of isolation had made him quite weak. So he took out some paper, and scrawled with a pen: "I am possessed by this house, and can never leave it again." His mother said: "You're not possessed, and you're not almost dead. These games that you play are all in your head. You're not Vincent Price, you're Vincent Malloy. You're not tormented, or insane, you're just a young boy. You're seven years old, and you are my son, I want you to get outside and have some real fun." Her anger now spent, she walked out through the hall, while Vincent backed slowly against the wall. The room started to sway, to shiver and creak. His horrid insanity had reached its peak. He saw Abacrombie his zombie slave, and heard his wife call from beyond the grave. She spoke from her coffin, and made ghoulish demands. While through cracking walls reached skeleton hands. Every horror in his life that had crept through his dreams, swept his mad laughter to terrified screams. To escape the madness, he reached for the door, but fell limp and lifeless down on the floor. His voice was soft and very slow, as he quoted The Raven from Edgar Allan Poe. "And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, shall be lifted nevermore!" (28.11.2007)

Vizuálně je to samozřejmě geniální, ale bohužel mi (ano, i v krátkometrážním šestiminutovém filmu) chyběl nějaký příběh nebo aspoň zápletka. Před několika desítkami let ale muselo být něco takového jako zjevení a Tim Burton se díky tomu nesmazatelně zapsal do historie kinematografie. To musí potvrdit každý, ať už má jeho tvorbu rád nebo ne. 70% (27.03.2017)

Tak z tohohle filmečku už jasně sálá podpis Tima Burtona. Naprosto úžasná atmosféra, působivý hlas Vincenta Price, skvělý příběh, úžasně se to rýmuje, já byl nadšenkaždým slovem. Nejlepší básnička pod sluncem. Bylo to ponuré, zábavné, hororové, vtipné a úžasně se na to koukalo. Jeden z nejlepších filmů Tima Burtona. 100%. (10.02.2013)

Kdyby byl celý systém hodnocení na CSFD spravedlivý, nechal by mne udělit tomuhle filmu všech 15*. Proč tolik? Inu pŕeci 5* za nejtimoburtonovějšího Tima Burtona v celé jeho nemalé filmografii, 5* za Ďábla Price, jeho inkarnaci do loutky (přičemž jak vidět je jeho charisma tak monumentální, že čiší i z kusu dřeva) a za jeho sladkobolný monolog a nakonec 5* za Poeův patronát nad celým tímhle počinem. Žel však, té nejlepśí suroviny je vždy jak šafránu. I tak vám Mistři nekonečné díky. (16.11.2006)