Compare Coraline, which is from the same director. Throw all that in with a boogeyman fashioned from a burlap sack filled with insects, rousing musical numbers so catchy they're scary, scares a-plenty for the young ones, and some truly brilliant imagery and directing, and you get one of the most celebrated and beloved holiday classics of all time.įrom 2006 to 2009, the film received a theatrical re-release once a year at Halloween time, with a somewhat disappointingly light-handed makeover into a 3-D movie. There he discovers the wonders of the bright and jolly, and becomes obsessed with understanding Christmas. Immediately attracted by the Christmas tree shaped one, he ventures into Christmas Town. Each tree bears a portal which leads to another holiday town.
However, Jack Skellington ( Chris Sarandon), the Pumpkin King and the towns ruler, has grown rather tired of the same old thing, and yearns for something new in his life.Īfter the current year's celebration of Halloween, the morose Jack goes for a long walk out of town into the forest, where he happens to walk into a circle of trees he's never seen before. It starts with the macabre yet kind-mannered citizens of Halloween Town celebrating - you guessed it - Halloween in the grandest fashion possible, due to their love of (er, their unnerving obsession with) scaring everyone senseless. Released to cinemas on October 29, 1993, The Nightmare Before Christmas is a Stop Motion animation film produced and conceived by Tim Burton, though actually scripted by Caroline Thompson and directed by Henry Selick (as Burton himself was very busy at the time, shooting Batman Returns and overseeing pre-production for Ed Wood).
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