THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS MOVIE

Against Jack's wishes and largely for their amusement, the trio deliver Santa to Oogie Boogie, a gambling-addict bogeyman who plots to play a game with Santa's life at stake.Ĭhristmas Eve arrives and Sally attempts to stop Jack with fog, but he embarks into the sky on a coffin-like sleigh pulled by skeletal reindeer, guided by the glowing nose of his ghost dog Zero. Jack assigns Lock, Shock, and Barrel a trio of mischievous children, to abduct Santa and bring him back to Halloween Town. However, she alone fears that his plans will become disastrous. Every resident is assigned a task, while Sally, a rag doll woman who is created by the town's mad scientist, begins to feel a romantic attraction towards Jack. Jack's obsession with Christmas leads him to usurp the role of Santa Claus. He reluctantly decides to play along and announces that they will take over Christmas. They fail to grasp his meaning and compare everything he says to their idea of Halloween. Wandering in the forest outside the town center, he accidentally opens a portal to ' Christmas Town.' Impressed by the feeling and style of Christmas, Jack presents his findings and his (somewhat limited) understanding of the festivities to the Halloween Town residents. Jack Skellington ('The Pumpkin King') leads them in a frightful celebration every Halloween, but he has grown tired of the same routine year after year.

Halloween Town, is a dream world filled with citizens such as deformed monsters, ghosts, ghouls, goblins, vampires, werewolves, and witches. Disney has reissued the film annually under their Disney Digital 3-D format since 2006, being the first stop-motion animated feature to be entirely converted to 3-D. The Nightmare Before Christmas was met with critical and financial success.

THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS MOVIE

This happened in the original 1993 release only, as Walt Disney Pictures owned the movie since its 3D reissue. Walt Disney Studios initially released the film through Touchstone Pictures because the studio believed the film would be 'too dark and scary for kids'. Production started in July 1991 in San Francisco. Over the years, Burton's thoughts regularly returned to the project, and in 1990, Burton and Disney made a development deal. With the success of Vincent in the same year, Disney started to consider developing The Nightmare Before Christmas as either a short film or 30-minute television special. The Nightmare Before Christmas originated in a poem written by Tim Burton in 1982, while he was working as a Disney animator. The remaining principal voice cast includes Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara, William Hickey, Ken Page, and Glenn Shadix. Danny Elfman wrote the film score and provided Jack's singing voice, as well as other minor characters. It tells the story of Jack Skellington, a being from ' Halloween Town' who opens a portal to ' Christmas Town' and decides to celebrate the holiday.

Source The Nightmare Before Christmas, often promoted as Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, is a 1993 American stop-motion musical dark fantasy film directed by Henry Selick and produced/co-written by Tim Burton.

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