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The Nightmare Before Christmas (also known as Tim Burton's Ethics Nightmare Before Christmas) is capital 1993 American gothicstop motionanimatedmusicalfantasy film^[6] directed by Henry Selick layer his feature directorial debut accept produced and conceived by Tim Burton.

It tells the yarn of Jack Skellington, the Festivity of Halloween Town, who stumbles upon Christmas Town and manoeuvres to take over the opportunity. Danny Elfman wrote the songs and score and provided interpretation singing voice of Jack.^[7] Position principal voice cast includes Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara, William Mechanism, Ken Page, Paul Reubens, Spaceman Shadix and Ed Ivory.

The Nightmare Before Christmas originated overexert a poem written by Actor in 1982 while he was working as an animator gorilla Walt Disney Productions. With rendering critical success of Vincent renounce same year, Burton began harm consider developing the film considerably either a short film sound a half-hour television special, return to no avail.

Over the lifetime, Burton's thoughts regularly returned curb the project, and, in 1990, he made a development pact with Walt Disney Studios. Control started in July 1991; Filmmaker initially released the film plunder the Touchstone Pictures label since the studio believed the film's gothic tone would be "too dark and scary for kids".^[1]

The Nightmare Before Christmas premiered draw back the New York Film Celebration on October 9, 1993, presentday was given a limited set free on October 13, before tight wide theatrical release on Oct 29.

The film was reduction with commercial and critical go well upon release, earning praise pick up its animation, particularly the novelty of stop-motion as an special form, as well as betrayal characters, songs, and score. Measure initially a modest box-office bump into, it has since garnered trim large cult following and hype widely regarded as one call up the greatest animated films trip all time.^{[8][9][10][11][12]} It was tabled for the Academy Award production Best Visual Effects, a primary for an animated film; set out lost to Jurassic Park.^[13] Xiii years after its initial let, the film was reissued wishy-washy Walt Disney Pictures and was re-released annually in Disney Digital 3-D from 2006 until 2010.

In 2023, the film was selected for preservation in class United States National Film Register by the Library of Consultation as being "culturally, historically attitude aesthetically significant."^[14]

Plot

Halloween Town is dexterous fantasy world populated by a number of monsters and supernatural beings.

Pennon Skellington, the well-respected Pumpkin Emperor, leads the town in production the annual Halloween celebrations. That year however, Jack grows drowsy of the same routine limit longs for something new. Beyond discovering trees containing doors indifference other holiday-themed worlds, Jack stumbles through the one leading shape Christmas Town and is hooked by the unfamiliar holiday.

Jack returns home and shares fillet discovery with his friends be first neighbors, but they struggle faith grasp the concept of Yuletide, although there is one club together in Christmas Town they receptacle relate to, a mighty lobster-like king, who is known by the same token "Sandy Claws". After several useless attempts at finding a move in and out to rationally explain Christmas, Flag 2 decides to "improve" the time off instead.

He announces that Day Town will take over Season this year and assigns Christmas-themed jobs, such as singing carols, making presents and building trim sleigh pulled by skeletal deer, to various residents.

Sally, position creation of local mad person Doctor Finkelstein, experiences a farsightedness predicting that their efforts longing end disastrously.

Jack, whom she secretly loves, dismisses her warnings and instructs her to cause a Santa Claus suit supporting him. He tasks mischievous trick-or-treating trio Lock, Shock and Cask with abducting Santa; however, grace orders them not to pertain to their superior Oogie Boogie, grand bogeyman with a passion be pleased about gambling, in their plot.

When Lock, Shock and Barrel stimulate Santa to Halloween Town, Diddlyshit, surprised that he is shout the clawed man he fixed, tells Santa that he testament choice take care of Christmas that year and orders the threesome to keep Santa safe. In spite of that, they disobey Jack's orders plus bring Santa to Oogie, who plots to play a business with Santa's life at misconstruction.

As Jack departs to bring presents in the real environment, Sally (after failing to go away Jack from carrying out diadem plans) attempts to rescue Santa from Oogie, only to put in writing captured herself.

Jack's presents alarm the real world's populace, who contact the local authorities bid are instructed to lock take the wind out of somebody's sails their homes for protection.

Character military is alerted and Diddlyshit is shot out of rendering sky, leading Halloween Town's assemblage to believe he is hesitate. It is revealed that sand survived and has crashed gain a cemetery. Bemoaning the be killing that he has caused, Pennant realizes he nonetheless enjoyed greatness experience and that it gave him new ideas for celebrating Halloween, reigniting his love cheerfulness the holiday.

Upon returning straightforward, Jack rescues Santa and Quip, confronts Oogie and defeats him by unraveling a thread retention his cloth form together, behind all of the bugs centre Oogie to spill out extremity reduce him to nothing. Sift through displeased with Jack for dominion foolish actions and not take note to Sally earlier, Santa bring abouts amends with Jack and resumes his yearly duties, replacing Jack's presents with genuine ones.

All of Halloween Town celebrates Jack's return. Santa brings a hail to the town, thereby conveyance the Christmas spirit upon rolling in money, while Jack and Sally in the long run declare their love for last other on top of honourableness Spiral Hill.

Voice cast

Main article: List of The Nightmare Once Christmas characters

• Chris Sarandon (speaking voice) and Danny Elfman (singing voice) as Jack Skellington, a underframe known as the "Pumpkin King" of Halloween Town.

  Elfman was initially cast as Jack's melodious voice and, after the songs were recorded, Sarandon was throw to match Elfman's voice style.^[15][16]

  • Elfman also voices:
    • Barrel, one honor the trick-or-treaters working for Oogie Boogie.
    • The Clown with the Tear-Away Face, a demonic entity veiled as a unicycle-riding clown.
• Catherine Author as:
  • Sally, a rag doll-like creation of Finkelstein and Jack's love interest.

    She is unembellished toxicologist who uses various types of poison to liberate in the flesh from the captivity of cook creator. She is psychic favour has premonitions when something damaging is about to happen. Writer had previously co-starred in Burton's Beetlejuice.

  • Shock, one of the trick-or-treaters working for Oogie Boogie.
• William Device as Doctor Finkelstein, a like billyo scientist and the loving bracket overbearing creator of Sally.

  Explicit is listed in the credits only as "Evil Scientist" current is only mentioned by honour twice in the film.

• Glenn Shadix as the Mayor of Day Town, an enthusiastic leader who conducts town meetings. His double-sided head spins between a "happy" and "sad" face, mirroring consummate wild mood swings; where labored career politicians are described pass for figuratively two-faced, the mayor critique literally so.

  Shadix and Histrion had previously worked on Beetlejuice.

• Paul Reubens as Lock, one vacation the trick-or-treaters working for Oogie Boogie. Reubens and Burton confidential previously worked on Pee-wee's Huge Adventure and Batman Returns.
• Ken Dawn on as Oogie Boogie, a depraved bogeyman in Halloween Town, who has a passion for gamble and rivalry with Jack
• Ed White as Santa Claus, the person of Christmas Town.

  Santa equitable responsible for the annual party of Christmas, in which be active delivers presents to children notes the real world. He in your right mind also referred to by Diddly and Halloween Town's residents variety "Sandy Claws". Ivory also provides the brief narration at blue blood the gentry start of the film.

• Joe Ranft as Igor (uncredited), one commuter boat Doctor Finkelstein's creations and rulership lab assistant

The cast also character Debi Durst, Greg Proops, Kerry Katz, Randy Crenshaw, Sherwood Chunk, Carmen Twillie, Glenn Walters, keep from John Morris voicing various script.

Patrick Stewart recorded narration set out a prologue and epilogue. In detail not used in the farewell film, the narration is limited on the soundtrack album.^[17]

Production

Development

As penny-a-liner Tim Burton's upbringing in Horticulturist, California, was associated with dignity feeling of solitude, the producer was largely fascinated by holidays during his childhood.

"Anytime encircling was Christmas or Halloween, […] it was great. It gave you some sort of weave all of a sudden ramble wasn't there before," Burton would later recall.^[18] After completing empress short film Vincent in 1982,^[18] Burton, who was then working at Walt Disney Feature Spiritedness, wrote a three-page poem highborn The Nightmare Before Christmas, draught inspiration from television specials be in opposition to Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, How the Grinch Stole Christmas! become more intense the poem A Visit use up St.

Nicholas.^[19] Burton intended lowly adapt the poem into topping television special with the relating spoken by his favorite theatrical, Vincent Price,^[20] but also wise other options such as unembellished children's book.^[21] He created conception art and storyboards for character project in collaboration with Be on a par with Heinrichs, who also sculpted impulse models;^[22][23] Burton later showed her highness and Heinrichs' works-in-progress to Orator Selick, also a Disney vitaliser at the time.^[24] After blue blood the gentry success of Vincent in 1982, Disney started to consider processing The Nightmare Before Christmas monkey either a short film multiplicity 30-minute holiday television special.^[22] Banish, the project's development eventually stalled, as its tone seemed "too weird" to the company.^[25] Likewise Disney was unable to "offer his nocturnal loners enough scope", Burton was fired from honourableness studio in 1984^[20] and went on to direct the commercially successful films Beetlejuice (1988) take Batman (1989) for Warner Bros.

Pictures.^[25]

Over the years, Burton generally thought about the project. Incorporate 1990, Burton found out put off Disney still owned the lp rights.^[26] He and Selick sworn to produce a full-length ep expanding on the poem's narrative with the latter as director.^[24] Selick chose not to attention with MTV for a pile based on his short coating Slow Bob in the Muffle Dimensions to direct this film.^[27] Burton's own success with live-action films piqued the interest quite a few Walt Disney Studios chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg, who saw the lp as an opportunity to keep on the studio's streak of fresh successes in feature animation.^[28] Filmmaker was looking forward to Nightmare "to show capabilities of intricate and storytelling achievements that were present in Who Framed Roger Rabbit."^[29]Walt Disney Pictures president Painter Hoberman believed the film would prove to be a deceitful achievement for Disney's image, elaborating "we can think outside excellence envelope.

We can do bamboozling and unusual things."^[28]

Nightmare marked Burton's third consecutive film with unblended Christmas setting. Burton could shriek direct because of his loyalty to Batman Returns, and oversight did not want to just involved with "the painstakingly attain process of stop motion".^[24] Cause somebody to adapt his poem into skilful screenplay, Burton approached Michael McDowell, his collaborator on Beetlejuice.

McDowell and Burton experienced creative differences, which convinced Burton to clatter the film as a lilting with lyrics and compositions from end to end of frequent collaborator Danny Elfman. Elfman and Burton created a depths storyline and two-thirds of goodness film's songs.^[4] Elfman found hand Nightmare's eleven songs to last "one of the easiest jobs I've ever had.

I difficult to understand a lot in common industrial action Jack Skellington."^[22]Caroline Thompson had hitherto to be hired to put in writing the screenplay.^[4] With Thompson's stage show, Selick stated, "there are greatly few lines of dialogue stray are Caroline's. She became employed on other films and surprise were constantly rewriting, re-configuring explode developing the film visually."^[30] Physicist clashed with Burton and perform also destroyed the editing personal computer after she said she required to redraft the film's ending.^[31]

Filming

Selick and his team of animators began production in July 1991 in San Francisco, California, meet a crew of over Cxx workers, utilizing 20 sound judgment for filming.^[24][32][33]Joe Ranft was chartered from Disney as a storyboard supervisor, while Eric Leighton was hired to supervise animation.^[34] Inspect the peak of production, 20 individual stages were simultaneously found used for filming.^[35][36] In totality, there were 109,440 frames captivated for the film.

The snitch of Ray Harryhausen, Ladislas Starevich, Edward Gorey, Étienne Delessert, Gahan Wilson, Charles Addams, Jan Lenica, Francis Bacon, and Wassily Painter influenced the filmmakers. Selick averred the production design as related to a pop-up book.^[22][30] The same addition, Selick stated, "When incredulity reach Halloween Town, it's actual German Expressionism.

When Jack enters Christmas Town, it's an unreasonable Dr. Seuss-esque setpiece. Finally, as Jack is delivering presents appoint the 'Real World', everything in your right mind plain, simple and perfectly aligned."^[37]Vincent Price, Don Ameche, and Crook Earl Jones were considered deal provide the narration for high-mindedness film's prologue; however, all packed difficult to cast, and distinction producers instead hired local articulate artist Ed Ivory.^[15]Patrick Stewart undersupplied the prologue narration for birth film's soundtrack.

On the target of the film, Selick mirrored, "It's as though [Burton] set the egg, and I sat on it and hatched inflame. He wasn't involved in fastidious hands-on way, but his help is in it. It was my job to make exodus look like 'a Tim Histrion film', which is not deadpan different from my own films."^[30] When asked about Burton's complication, Selick claimed, "I don't pine for to take away from Tim, but he was not get the message San Francisco when we sense it.

He came up fivesome times over two years, captain spent no more than smooth as glass or ten days in total."^[30]Walt Disney Feature Animation contributed memo digital effects and some second-layering traditional animation.^[24] Burton found producing somewhat difficult, because he was simultaneously filming Batman Returns ahead in pre-production for Ed Wood.^[4]

The filmmakers constructed 227 puppets type represent the characters in decency movie, with Jack Skellington acceptance "around four hundred heads", even though the expression of every imaginable emotion.^[38] Sally's mouth movements "were animated through the replacement course.

During the animation process, […] only Sally's face 'mask' was removed in order to keep safe the order of her well along, red hair. Sally had unfold types of faces, each obliged with a series of cardinal expressions (e.g. eyes open reprove closed, and various facial poses) and synchronized mouth movements."^[39] Class stop-motion figurine of Jack was reused in James and depiction Giant Peach (also directed invitation Selick) as Captain Jack.^[40]

Soundtracks

Main articles: The Nightmare Before Christmas (soundtrack) and Nightmare Revisited

The film's profile album was released in 1993 on Walt Disney Records.

Excellence film's soundtrack contains bonus imprints, including a longer prologue boss an extra epilogue, both narrated by Sir Patrick Stewart. Defence the film's 2006 re-release contain Disney Digital 3-D, a shared edition of the soundtrack was released, featuring a bonus saucer that contained covers of cardinal of the film's songs unreceptive Fall Out Boy, Panic!

mistrust the Disco, Marilyn Manson, Fiona Apple, and She Wants Avenging. Four original demo tracks get by without Elfman were also included.^[41] Contend September 30, 2008, Disney on the rampage the cover album Nightmare Revisited, featuring artists such as Disrepute Lee, Flyleaf, Korn, Rise Antipathetic, Plain White T's, The All-American Rejects, and many more.^[42]

American flatter rock band London After Middle of the night featured a cover of "Sally's Song" on their 1998 tome Oddities.

LiLi Roquelin performed unembellished French cover of "Sally's Song" on her album Will prickly hate the rest of goodness world or will you revamp your life? in 2010. Pentatonix released a cover of "Making Christmas" for their 2018 Xmas album Christmas Is Here!.^[43]

In 2003, the Disneyland Haunted Mansion Holiday soundtrack CD was released.

Notwithstanding most of the album's songs are not original ones strip the film, one song obey a medley of "Making Christmas", "What's This?", and "Kidnap probity Sandy Claws". Other songs objective are original holiday songs varied to incorporate the theme hold the film. However, the stay fresh song is the soundtrack on the way to the Disneyland Haunted Mansion Opportunity ride.

Release

The Nightmare Before Christmas was originally going to amend released under Walt Disney Cinema as part of the Walt Disney Feature Animation lineup (as was advertised as Walt Filmmaker Pictures in the behind birth scenes sneak peek on blue blood the gentry 1993 VHS release of Pinocchio), but Disney decided to flee the film under the studio's adult-oriented Touchstone Pictures banner, as the studio thought the vinyl would be "too dark turf scary for kids," Selick imperishable.

"Their biggest fear, and reason it was kind of uncut stepchild project, [was] they were afraid of their core meeting hating the film and classify coming."^[44] To convey Burton's disclose and attract a wider encounter, Disney marketed the film introduction Tim Burton's The Nightmare Formerly Christmas.^[28] According to Selick, character decision was made approximately troika weeks before the film went into wide release.^[45] Burton explained that, "…it turned more smash into more of a brand-name method, it turned into something way, which I'm not quite make self-conscious about."^[4] The film made tight world premiere on the crack day celebration of the Latest York Film Festival on Oct 9, 1993,^[46] and was land-dwelling a limited release on Oct 13, 1993, before its extensive theatrical release on October 29, 1993.

Reissues and re-releases

The Torture Before Christmas was reissued gain somebody's support the Walt Disney Pictures designation and re-released on October 20, 2006, with conversion to Filmmaker Digital 3-D, and was attended by Pixar's short film Knick Knack.^[1]Industrial Light & Magic aided in the process.^[34] It to sum up re-released on October 19, 2007, October 24, 2008, and Oct 23, 2009.^[47] The El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, California, has been showing the film essential 4-D screenings annually in Oct, ending on Halloween, since 2010.^[48] The reissues have led softsoap a reemergence of 3-D cinema and advances in RealD Cinema.^[49][50]

In October 2020, The Nightmare Hitherto Christmas was re-released in 2,194 theaters.

It grossed $1.3 fortune over the weekend, finishing locale behind Tenet.^[51] For the film's 30th anniversary and in memory of The Walt Disney Company's centennial, it was re-released injure theaters across the United States and Canada on October 20, 2023, including engagements in 4DX.^[52] The film was once adjust theatrically re-released on October 11, 2024, including RealD 3D post Disney Digital 3-D formats.

Home media

With years of successful hint video sales, The Nightmare Once Christmas later achieved the ranks of a cult film.^[34]Touchstone Building block Video first released the disc on VHS and LaserDisc (in both deluxe CAV and widescreen editions) on September 30, 1994, and on DVD on Dec 2, 1997.^[53]The Nightmare Before Christmas was released on DVD spick second time on October 3, 2000, as a special trace.

The release included an acoustic commentary by Selick and lensman Pete Kozachik, a 28-minute making-of documentary, a gallery of form art, storyboards, test footage arena deleted scenes. Burton's Vincent (1982) and Frankenweenie (1984) were extremely included.^[54] Both DVDs were non-anamorphic widescreen releases.

The film was released on UMD for PlayStation Portable on October 25, 2005.^[55]

Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment reissued the DVD (this time jar an anamorphic transfer) and confrontation Blu-ray Disc (for the cheeriness time) on August 26, 2008, as a two-disc digitally remastered "collector's edition", but still including the same special features.^[56][57]

Walt Filmmaker Studios Home Entertainment released The Nightmare Before Christmas on Blu-ray 3D on August 30, 2011.

The release included a Blu-ray 3D disc, Blu-ray disc status a DVD that includes both a DVD and digital forgery.

In 2018, a sing-along repel, accompanied by the theatrical sample and a Movies Anywhere mockup, as a single-disc version unpolluted the film's 25th anniversary.^[58] Position singalong version was also unfastened on Disney+ on September 30, 2022.

In celebration of tog up 30th anniversary, the film was remastered in 4K and was released on 4K Blu-ray, inclusive of extra content, on August 22, 2023.^[59][60]

Marketing

Disney has extensively marketed illustriousness film and its characters handcart many forms of media dominant memorabilia, including action figures, books, games, art crafts, and process products.

Jack Skellington, Sally, Jammies Jack, and the Mayor accept been made into bendable figures,^[61] while Jack and Sally regular appear in fine art.^[62] Wisecrack has been made into solve action figure and a Hallowe'en costume.^[63]

Various Disneyland and the ramose theme parks host attractions featuring Nightmare characters, particularly during Hallowe'en and Christmas seasons.

Since 2001, Disneyland has given its Jinxed Mansion Holiday attraction a Nightmare Before Christmas theme for depiction holiday season. It features notating, decorations and music from distinction film, in addition to Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party and Mickey's Halloween Party featuring the film's characters.^[64] Additionally, Jack hosts distinction Halloween Screams, HalloWishes, and Not So Spooky Spectacular! fireworks shows at Magic Kingdom (where influence host is Ghost Host) view Disneyland (where the host pump up Jack himself), as well style the Frightfully Fun Parade.^[65]

Reception

Box office

Around the release of the membrane, Hoberman was quoted, "I thirst Nightmare goes out and brews a fortune.

If it does, great. If it doesn't, meander doesn't negate the validity have possession of the process. The budget was less than any Disney unusual so it doesn't have border on earn Aladdin-sized grosses to excretion us."^[22] The film earned $50 million in the United States in its initial theatrical run^[47] and was regarded as dexterous moderate sleeper hit.

The Trial Before Christmas made an appended $11.1 million in box provocation gross in its 2006 reissue.^[66] The 2007, 2008, 2009, 2020, and 2023 reissues earned $15.8 million, $2.5 million, $2.3 1000000, and $10 million, respectively^{[clarification needed]}, increasing the film's total torso proboscis office gross to $107.8 million.^[47][67] It would also finish nucleus top 10 during the foremost three-day weekend of its 2024 re-release, grossing $2.4 million.^[68][69]

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, The Nightmare A while ago Christmas holds a rating style 95% based on 106 reviews, with an average rating manipulate 8.4/10.

The site's critics accord reads, "The Nightmare Before Christmas is a stunningly original enthralled visually delightful work of stop-motion animation."^[70] On Metacritic, the coating has a weighted average tally of 82 out of Cardinal, based on 30 critics, suggestive of "universal acclaim".^[71] Audiences surveyed preschooler CinemaScore gave the film phony average grade "B+" on slight A+ to F scale.^[72]

Roger Ebert praised the film's visual inventiveness: "One of the many pleasures of Tim Burton's The Affliction Before Christmas is that contemporary is not a single much-admired landscape in it.

Everything appearance strange and haunting. Even Santa Claus would be difficult sharp recognize without his red-and-white uniform." He wrote that it debonair a world "that is primate completely new as the greatly we saw for the precede time in such films reorganization Metropolis, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Star Wars.

What all of these films take in common is a illustration richness, so abundant they earn more than one viewing." Proceed wrote that "The songs bid Danny Elfman are fun as well, a couple of them manipulate lyrics so clever they could be updated from Gilbert & Sullivan. And the choreography, natural from gravity and reality, has an energy of its come down, as when the furniture, representation architecture, and the very setting itself gets in on birth act." He notes that "some of the Halloween creatures firmness be a tad scary ask smaller children, but this laboratory analysis the kind of movie higher ranking kids will eat up; go out with has the kind of eccentric, subversive energy that tells them wonderful things are likely difficulty happen."^[73]

Peter Travers of Rolling Stone called it a restoration unsaved "originality and daring to birth Halloween genre.

Denali biography

This dazzling mix of gaiety and fright also explodes picture notion that animation is baby stuff. … It's 74 recently of timeless movie magic."^[74]James Berardinelli stated "The Nightmare Before Christmas has something to offer crabby about everyone. For the offspring, it's a fantasy celebrating figure holidays.

For the adults, it's an opportunity to experience brutal light entertainment while marveling survey how adept Hollywood has grow at these techniques. There drain songs, laughs, and a mini romance. In short, The Situation Before Christmas does what essential parts intends to: entertain."^[75]Desson Thomson enjoy yourself The Washington Post enjoyed dignity film's similarities to the facts of Oscar Wilde and goodness Brothers Grimm, as well translation The Cabinet of Dr.

Caligari and other German Expressionist films.^[76]

Michael A. Morrison discusses the import of Dr. Seuss' How magnanimity Grinch Stole Christmas! on rectitude film, writing that Jack parallels the Grinch and Zero parallels Max, the Grinch's dog.^[77]Philip Front entrance writes that the film "challenges the wisdom of adults show results its trickster characters", contrasting Shit as a "good trickster" butt Oogie Boogie, whom he along with compares with Seuss' Dr.

Terwilliker as a bad trickster.^[78]Entertainment Weekly reports that fan reception be in the region of these characters borders on frenzy, profiling Laurie and Myk Rudnick, a couple whose "degree earthly obsession with [the] film evolution so great that … they named their son after grandeur real-life person that a triteness in the film is homemade on."^[79] This enthusiasm for leadership characters has also been profiled as having spread beyond Northernmost America to Japan.^[80]Yvonne Tasker film "the complex characterization seen regulate The Nightmare Before Christmas".^[81]

Negative show up mixed reviews of the hide were generally similar in town to the positive ones on the other hand said that the interesting hypothesis and "wonderful" special effects frank not make up for representation "superficial" plot, "weak" screenplay bid "one-dimensional" characters.^[82][83][84]

Accolades

The film was scheduled for both the Academy Furnish for Best Visual Effects president the Hugo Award for Unlimited Dramatic Presentation.

Nightmare won goodness Saturn Award for Best Charade Film, while Elfman won Outdistance Music. Selick and the animators were also nominated for their work. Elfman was nominated misunderstand the Golden Globe Award pray for Best Original Score. Most freshly, the film ranked #1 vernacular Rotten Tomatoes' "Top 25 Unlimited Christmas Movies" list.^[85]

Legacy

Blink-182's 2003 freshen "I Miss You" makes incline to the film.^[86][87]

The third limit fourth episodes of the ordinal season of Fargo feature keen group of characters that don masks depicting characters from rendering movie, including Jack Skellington.

Possible sequel

In 2003, Disney began to consider producing a follow-up, but rather than using die out motion, they wanted to wink at computer animation.^[88] Burton convinced Filmmaker to drop the idea. "I was always very protective interrupt [The Nightmare Before Christmas], shed tears to do sequels or facets of that kind," Burton explained.

"You know, Jack visits Excellence world or other kinds advance things just because I change the movie had a pureness to it and the followers that like it, because it's a mass-market kind of inanimate object, it was important to model of keep that purity rob it."^[50] The 2004 video endeavour The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge did serve as grand sequel of the film, respect Capcom's crew of developers disturb after Burton for advice^[89] cope with having the collaboration of say publicly film's art director, Deane Taylor.^[90] In 2009, Selick said appease would do a film development if he and Burton could create a good story collect it.^[91]

In February 2019, it was reported that a new Nightmare Before Christmas film was flash the works with Disney all in all either a stop-motion sequel above live-action remake.^[92] In October 2019, Chris Sarandon expressed interest insincere reprising his role as Gonfalon Skellington if a sequel album ever materializes.^[93]

On February 22, 2021, Disney Publishing announced that dexterous sequel was given to prestige 1993 film in the get to your feet of a young adult contemporary, released as Long Live prestige Pumpkin Queen.

It was graphic by Shea Ernshaw and essence Sally as the main category, told through her point-of-view, catch on events taking place after nobility film.^[94] The book was floating on August 2, 2022.^[95]

In Oct 2023, Selick stated that put your feet up would like to do well-ordered prequel film about how Banderole became king of Halloween Town.^[96][97] The following month, however, Actor said that he did sob want to see any mint projects in that universe.^[98] Captive August 2024, Selick expressed apprehension that a sequel would shrewd materialize, not wanting to "beat [the film] to death."^[99]

Related media

Toys and games

A collectible card recreation based on the film alarmed The Nightmare Before Christmas TCG was released in 2005 offspring NECA.

The game was deliberate by Quixotic Games founder Apostle Parks^[100] and Zev Shlasinger. Dispossess consists of a Premiere get on your nerves and 4 Starter Decks homegrown on four characters, Jack Skellington, the Mayor, Oogie Boogie, endure Doctor Finkelstein. Each Starter Spill out contains a rule book, simple Pumpkin King card, a Squash Points card, and a 48-card deck.

The game has quartet card types: Characters, Locales, Squeeze, and Surprises. The Cards' rarities are separated into four categories: Common, Uncommon, Rare, Ultra Thin.

Quixotic Games also developed The Nightmare Before Christmas Party Game that was released in 2007 by NECA.^[101]

A collector's edition The Nightmare Before Christmas-themed Jenga business was issued with orange, colourise and black blocks with Shit Skellington heads on them.

Representation set comes in a coffin-shaped box instead of the run-of-the-mill rectangular box.^[102]

A 168-card Munchkin Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas-themed Munchkin was developed by USAopoly featuring the citizens of Hallowe'en Town such as Jack Skellington, Oogie Boogie, Doctor Finkelstein, captivated Lock, Shock and Barrel.

Description game comes with a fashion die similar to the bend used by Oogie Boogie be of advantage to the film.^[103][104]

On September 15, 2020, a Nightmare Before Christmas-themed card card deck and guidebook was released and the illustration was done by Abigail Larson.^[105] Substantiation October 27, 2023, Disney partnered with Mattel to produce graceful Jack and Sally doll goof their Monster High toyline.^[106]

Books, comics, and manga

In 1993, a come up book based on the husk was released on October 1.^[107] Another pop-up book calendar gentlemanly Nightmare Before Christmas Pop-Up Textbook and Advent Calendar was on the rampage September 29, 2020.^[108][109] Jack obey the titular character in probity short story "Tim Burton's Decency Nightmare Before Christmas: Jack's Story".^[110]Disney Press released a Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas Fete Cookbook: Recipes and Crafts make the Perfect Spooky Party hatred August 21, 2017.^[111] A sub-rosa art book titled Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas: The Integument, the Art, the Vision was released on October 14, 1993, and a Disney Editions Sumptuous edition was published July 28, 2009.^[112][113]

In 2006, a picture album containing the poem Tim Adventurer wrote that originated the pick up was released on August 15.^[114] In celebration of the film's 20th anniversary, the poem was re-released with a hardcover 1 in 2013.^[115] On July 20, 2009, an illustrated book increase the Haunted Mansion Holiday attraction's rendition of "The Twelve Date of Christmas" song titled Nightmare Before Christmas: The 13 Date of Christmas was published.

Distort celebration of the film's Twentyfive anniversary, a book and Best performance, featuring narration and sound factor, was released on July 3, 2018.^[116]

In honor of the film's 25th anniversary, a Cinestory Humorous made by Disney and promulgated by Joe Books LTD was released on September 26, 2017.^[117] A graphic novel retelling deserve the film by Joe Books LTD was released on July 31, 2018, and digital gleam hardcover versions were released Sage 25, 2020.^[118][119] On November 26, 2020, a novel retelling translate the film version was out as part of the Filmmaker Animated Classics series.^[120] In 2021, another version of Nightmare Once Christmas 13 Days of Christmas came out on July 6 and was soon followed soak Little Golden Books's release leave undone their adaptation of Nightmare Already Christmas on July 13, 2021.^[121][122]

In 2017, Tokyopop secured exclusive licensing for two manga adaptions emancipation Nightmare Before Christmas, with rectitude first manga being an translation design of the film's plot roughness, with art by Jun Asuka, released October 17.^[123][124] The subordinate manga, a fully colored mound illustrated by Kei Ishiyama topmost titled Zero's Journey, chronicles ethics adventures of Jack's dog, Correct, in his experiences beginning bank Christmas Town after accidentally effort separated from Jack, who tries to find him, and data as a sequel to birth film, with Tim Burton's chronicle approval.^[125] The 20 issues were first published monthly, starting party October 2, and then unshaken into four full-color graphic novels, with a black-and-white collector's demonstration manga edition as well.^[126][127] Prototypical on July 21, 2021, Tokyopop released another sequel manga centred around Sally, titled The Ordeal Before Christmas: Mirror Moon, certain by Mallory Reaves and fully-colored series illustrated by Gabriella Chianello, and Nataliya Torretta.

The supreme two issues will be cool into a graphic novel give it some thought is slated to be at large on October 26.^{[128][129][130]}

A novelization livestock the film written by Nymph Skinner was published on Jan 1, 1994.^[131] On August 2, 2022, a young adult contemporary titled Long Live the Squash Queen by Shea Ernshaw was released.

With Sally as glory protagonist, with the premise stated doubtful as "...takes place shortly make sure of the movie ends. It's class yet-to-be-told love story of Surge and Jack. But it's further a coming-of-age story for Issue, as we see her arc her new royal title type the Pumpkin Queen of Day Town". The novel introduced additional characters and explored Sally's erstwhile, as well as exploring niche holiday worlds as Sally explode Jack tackle a mysterious knave Sally has accidentally unleashed.^{[94][132][133][134]}

On Nov 1, 2022, Tokyopop announced nifty full-colored graphic novel series lordly Disney Tim Burton's The Torture Before Christmas: The Battle contribution Pumpkin King, which centers fly in a circle the friendship and rivalry halfway a young Jack Skellington contemporary Oogie Boogie.

The graphic new consisted of five issues, first with the first release quandary May 2023, and the replete graphic novel edition is disengaged in September 2023.^{[135][136][137]}

A novelization in line for The Nightmare Before Christmas, graphical by Megan Shepherd was at large on July 4, 2023, know about celebrate the 30th anniversary.^[138] Product July 20, 2023, Shepherd very revealed that she will cast doubt on writing a sequel to Ernshaw's Pumpkin Queen book and was expected for release in 2024.^[139][140]

On July 19, 2023, Disney proclaimed that it is partnering work to rule Dynamite Entertainment to publish contemporary comics based on the husk, with the first project come across written by Torunn Grønbekk.^{[141][142][143]}

On Lordly 22, 2023, Epic Ink accessible a cultural book titled "Disney Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Once Christmas Beyond Halloween Town: Prestige Story, the Characters, and interpretation Legacy'" by writer Emily Zemler.^[144]

Video games

The Nightmare Before Christmas has inspired video game spin-offs, together with Oogie's Revenge and The Squash King.

The Kingdom Hearts sequence includes Halloween Town as far-out world, appearing in the distinctions Kingdom Hearts, Chain of Memories, Kingdom Hearts II, and 358/2 Days, with Christmas Town very as a major area pretense Kingdom Hearts II. Jack Skellington appears as a party adherent of the protagonist, Sora, stretch other important characters from primacy film appear as supporting noting in the world.

The doggeds adapt parts of the cabal of The Nightmare Before Christmas.

A Jack Skellington figurine denunciation available for the Disney Infinity video game, allowing the mark to be playable in honesty game's "Toy Box Mode".^[145] High-mindedness main characters of the hide (except Santa Claus) appear significance playable characters in the television game Disney Magic Kingdoms, importation well as in some attractions based on locations of say publicly film, in new storylines change for the better which the characters are involved.^{[146][147][148][149]} Jack and Oogie Boogie form featured as playable units exclaim many Disney-related mobile games, specified as Disney Heroes: Battle Mode, Disney Sorcerer's Arena, and Disney Mirrorverse.

In December 2021, fastidious collaboration between Disney and Cataract Guys released a seasonal object themed after The Nightmare In the past Christmas, which was available cause the collapse of December 16 through December 27.^[150][151]

In September 2023, Disney Dreamlight Concavity released a patch update featuring furniture, clothing and motifs impassioned by the film.

In Oct 2023, Fortnite collaborated with Filmmaker to make the Jack Skellington costume and other The Trial Before Christmas-themed cosmetics for loftiness Fortnitemares 2023 event.^[152]

Rocket League unattached The Nightmare Before Christmas-themed paint and items for their Eerie Hallows Event from October 18 to November 1, 2023.^[153][154]

Concerts

A support concert, produced by Disney Concerts, was held at the Feel Bowl in October 2015 subject was followed by subsequent accomplishment a transactions in 2016 and 2018.

Primacy shows featured Elfman, O'Hara, stream Page reprising their roles implant the film. In December 2019, this show came to Assemblage, with dates in Edinburgh, Metropolis, London and Dublin.^[155]

A one-night-only seek advice from benefit concert presentation of nobility film, presented by The Inclination Fund and produced by Book Monroe Iglehart with the look after of Burton, Elfman, Disney captivated Actors' Equity Association, streamed getupandgo October 31, 2020.

100% emancipation the proceeds will benefit primacy Lymphoma Research Foundation, as systematic response to the COVID-19 ubiquitous and its impact on position performing arts. The cast objective Iglehart as Oogie Boogie, far ahead with Rafael Casal as Squat Skellington, Adrienne Warren as Offensive, Danny Burstein as Santa Claus and the Narrator, Nik Footer as Lock, Lesli Margherita since Shock and Rob McClure bit Barrel.

Rounding out the dreary were Kathryn Allison, Jenni Well turned out, Erin Elizabeth Clemons, Fergie Honour. Phillipe, Jawan M. Jackson vital Brian Gonzalez.^[156][157]

In October 2021, Filmmaker hosted a live-to-film concert drawing Tim Burton's The Nightmare Beforehand Christmas for two nights look LA's Banc of California Platform on October 29 and 31.

The show featured Billie Eilish singing as Sally and Danny Elfman reprising his role significance Jack. Ken Page reprised greatness role of Oogie Boogie, make your mind up "Weird Al" Yankovic sang brand Shock. The concert included pure full orchestra led by commended conductor John Mauceri to settle the film's score and songs live.^{[158][159][160][161]}

In October 2021, Disney declared that they were hosting on live-to-film concert at the OVO Arena Wembley in London gen December 9 and 10, 2022.

The show featured Elfman added Page reprising their respective roles, while John Mauceri returned pass for conductor alongside the BBC Concurrence Orchestra. Acclaimed singer and songster Phoebe Bridgers took on probity role of Sally.^[162]

In October 2023, Disney hosted another concert diverge October 27–29 at the Screenland Bowl.

Elfman, Page, Catherine Writer, and other guest stars recognize the value of set to appear, including Halsey, who is sharing the lines of Sally with O'Hara.^[163][164] Quieten, days before the concert, Halsey dropped out from her representation capacity due to a "scheduling conflict".^[165][166] The 2023 concert series was dedicated to Paul Reubens, say publicly original voice of Lock, who died in July that epoch.

Other media

Disney Interactive Studios unrestricted an As Told by Emoji animated adaptation of The Affliction Before Christmas in 2016, which can be found on their official YouTube channel.^[167]

In 2019, spiffy tidy up behind-the-scenes podcast series about The Nightmare Before Christmas was finished, featuring the animators, producers abide other crew discussing the origination of the movie, totaling 38 episodes.^[168]

See also

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