The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

Movie: The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

“Jack Skellington, the pumpkin king of Halloween Town, is bored with doing the same thing every year for Halloween. One day he stumbles into Christmas Town, and is so taken with the idea of Christmas that he tries to get the resident bats, ghouls, and goblins of Halloween town to help him put on Christmas instead of Halloween — but alas, they can’t get it quite right. Written by Jon Reeves {jreeves@imdb.com}”

• Director: Henry Selick
• Release Date: 29 October 1993 (USA)
• Run Time: 76 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Animation , Family , Fantasy , Musical
• MPAA: Rated PG for some scary images.

Tagline: Tim Burton's classic returns in 3-D so real, it's scary.

Trivia: In 2001, Walt Disney Pictures began to consider producing a sequel, but rather than using stop motion, Disney wanted to use computer animation. Burton convinced Disney to drop the idea. “I was always very protective of [Nightmare] not to do sequels or things of that kind,” Burton explained. “You know, ‘Jack visits Thanksgiving world’ or other kinds of things just because I felt the movie had a purity to it and the people that like it,” Burton said.

Goofs: Continuity: During “Kidnap Mr. Sandy Claws” Shock has black gloves that disappear and re-appear throughout the song.