Release Date:
Friday, October 27, 2000
Tim Burton (Sleepy Hollow, Edward Scissorhands) and Henry Selick (James and the Giant Peach): two twisted minds that go great together. Now that movies like Toy Story have made it OK for non-nerds to like animation, their amazing and thoroughly enjoyable stop-motion musical The Nightmare Before Christmas is back in theaters. See it. Its a bizarre and fun time that plays like one of those old Christmas specialsthink Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer or Frosty the Snowmanre-imagined by Edgar Allan Poe and Edward Gorey.
With music by Oingo-Boingo alumnus and certified freakboy Danny Elfman, Nightmare follows the musical adventure of Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, as he learns that his morbid sensibility and the cheerfulness of Christmas just dont mix. Like other traditional holiday movies, Nightmare should be broken out every year when the leaves turn and the fright masks hit the stores.
With music by Oingo-Boingo alumnus and certified freakboy Danny Elfman, Nightmare follows the musical adventure of Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, as he learns that his morbid sensibility and the cheerfulness of Christmas just dont mix. Like other traditional holiday movies, Nightmare should be broken out every year when the leaves turn and the fright masks hit the stores.