Spooky Cinema @ Northchase: The Corpse Bride In-Person
Join us at the Northchase Library for a Family Friendly Spooky Cinema Series! Each week will feature a different film. Water and popcorn provided. Bring your own pillows and blankets for comfort.
About the movie:
From Swank Movie Licensing:
Rated PG
Returning to the painstaking stop-motion animation he employed with amazing success in The Nightmare Before Christmas, Tim Burton presents a hair-raising legend based on a 19th-century Russian folktale, in which a young man mistakenly weds a corpse while on a two-day trek to the village of his real bride-to-be. It is up to the groom's flesh-and-blood fiancée, who has been pining for the arrival of her intended, to face her wraith-like rival and make peace with her by promising to live her dreams for her and by vowing to remember her always. Only then are the living bride and groom free to proceed with their own wedding ceremony in the warmhearted fable Tim Burton's Corpse Bride.
From CommonSenseMedia.org:
Parents need to know that this movie includes multiple references to dead bodies, skeletons, decay, and death, though all in good fun. The corpse bride's eye pops out occasionally, to show the talking maggot who lives inside and offers romantic advice. The story concerns a young man and woman who meet for a marriage arranged by their parents, both families in need of money. The young man's betrothal to the corpse bride leads him to contemplate his own death, in order to fit in with her friends. Song and dance numbers feature skeletons, corpses, and ghosts. Both sets of parents are using their children to achieve money and status. And when the live bride-to-be asks the local pastor for help, the film raises questions concerning the effectiveness of organized religion.
- Date:
- Wednesday, Oct 21st 2026
- Time:
- 5:30pm - 7:30pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Flytrap - Multipurpose Room
- Branch:
- Northchase Library,4400 Northchase Pkwy W, Wilmington, NC 28405
- Audience:
- General Interest
- Categories:
- Adult Children's/Kids Special Event Teen
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