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Caroline Thompson grew up in a house full of books outside Washington, D.C., where she fell in love with horror novels, fantasy and children’s classics. Her suburban Maryland neighbourhood and favourite novel, Frankenstein, later inspired her horror novel, First Born, and first produced screenplay, Edward Scissorhands. Thompson continued to explore horror and fantasy themes in screenplays for The Addams Family and the stop-motion animation features, The Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride. She ventured into children’s classics, as well, writing screen adaptations of The Secret Garden and Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey. And despite WC. Fields’ maxim, “Never work with animals or children,” she took on the dual roles of screenwriter and director for Black Beauty, Buddy and Snow White: The Fairest of Them All. Most recently, she wrote, directed and produced The Hills Are Alive, a digi horror video made for the new technology. Thompson lives with two dogs, four horses and various humans on a ranch in Ojai, Calif., where she aspires to be as sassy, irreverent, crotchety and wicked as her beloved high-school Latin teacher. Of her screenplays, Edward Scissorhands remains far and away her favourite. |
