Nightmare Before Christmas Halloween Movie. Jack skellington, king of halloween town, discovers christmas town, but his attempts to bring christmas to his home causes confusion. The nightmare before christmas is a holiday classic.
Some fans believe that the film is in the ranks of the best halloween films, like hocus pocus or halloweentown. Sure, there are christmas elements, and maybe a large portion of the film is dedicated to jack skellington literally trying to scientifically discover the meaning of christmas, but the protagonist’s’ name is also literally jack skellington. Is the nightmare before christmas a halloween movie or a christmas movie?
Nightmare before christmas is a halloween movie because its weirdness permeates christmas, and not vice versa.
It takes place at christmas, and the primary story revolves around christmas. Tired of scaring humans every october 31 with the same old bag of tricks, jack skellington, the spindly king of halloween town, kidnaps santa claus and plans to. Nightmare before christmas composer danny elfman shares stories about the making of the 1993 animated movie, initially deemed too scary for kids. As autumn approaches every year, the question resurfaces:
