The Story Archive

Batman

Tim Burton · 1989 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

Gotham is run by a syndicate and haunted by a figure in a cape who leaves criminals strung up for the police, and a gangster dropped into a vat of chemicals comes out with a bleached face and a grin he cannot close. He poisons the city's cosmetics and courts the photographer the recluse behind the mask is also seeing. Burton's expressionist design made comic-book properties central to the industry.

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