LOS ANGELES â If Disney ever wanted to reboot "Toy Story" as a horror franchise, they'd do well to tap the curiously creepy collection that famed film and TV composer Danny Elfman keeps in his East Hollywood recording compound.
Animators could do a tracking shot through the enclosed loading dock, into Elfman's studio and be greeted by the man himself, who'd introduce his little buddies: a pair of fist-sized, shrunken human heads that occupy space on a table in the corner of a cavernous entry room.
Protected in glass display cases a few steps away from a similar case housing an original Jack Skellington doll from "The Nightmare Before Christmas" (Elfman provided the singing voice of Skellington, as well as the film's songs and score), the shriveled noggins sit among various Victorian medical devices, detached mannequin hands, busts of clowns, doll parts and other macabre curios that constitute the life-long Angeleno's aesthetic.