Another cool feature a lot of people don’t notice is the light on Zero’s nose is actually a tiny glowing Jack-o-lantern! When the film first came out on VHS, because of the low visual quality of TVs, lots of people assumed it was just a red/Orange bulb, similar to that of Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer. When the film was released to DVD and especially Blu-Ray, you could finally SEE the amazing quality and actually tell its a jack-o-lantern!
I’ve seen those movie since it came out and never noticed this until last night when my gf pointed it out after her first watch of it. I was mindblown!
@@sugarbaby1974 I’m ashamed that it took me this comment to realize that’s what he represented lmao I always thought there had to be a reason he had two faces but it never registered to me that was the reason 🗿
I always wished that they made at least a spinoff series where the Mayor was actually behind some evil deeds, including working together with Oogie to get rid of Jack because no one loves and respects the Mayor like they do Jack so being a politician he did shady crap in the back and started sabotaging other holidays and started blaming Jack for them. That would’ve been a cool story in my opinion. I always thought there was mysterious shady side to him.
You mention how this movie is a commentary on selling things early. That is EXACTLY how this movie came to be. Tim Burton was in a store back in the late 80's and saw them selling Christmas and Halloween decorations right next to each other, and it just triggered this fantastic idea for a movie.
Yes,this is just the idea, in fact the movie is actually entire made by the sema of coraline, Henry selick,also the ideas of tim for this movies was pretty bad,in fact in his idea he wanted that the Oogie and The doctor where the same character with a costume,thanks god henry didn't listen and do all movie with his own head
I used to work as an event coordinator for Michaels (art & craft supplies chain). Halloween product went on shelves August 15th; Christmas product, October 15th. The last two weeks of October offer some chaotic mashups.
Henry Selick originally wanted Dr Finklestein to be Oogie Boogie but Tim Burton shut down that idea, in fact he was so pissed off that he kicked a hole in the wall at the filming studio. There’s a documentary on Netflix about the making of it where they mention that lol.
The music was done by Danny Elfman and he was also Jack Skellington's singing voice. He was also one of the voices for Lock, Shock, and Barrel, along with Paul Rubens (Pee-Wee Herman). This movie is a masterpeice.
Yes, and be originally didn’t want any acting parts, but when he was writing the music, they asked him to sing the lyrics so they could hear how the melody went, and once he started singing they’re like “oh yeah, you’re gonna be his singing voice.” Also don’t forget that Danny Elfman was formerly in a band called Oingo Boingo!
I’m pretty sure that at the time Danny Elfman was writing the songs for Nightmare, he was going through similar inner conflict as Jack. Since the music was written first, Elfman was able to put in a lot of his personality. He was Jack
In my opinion Jack was depressed, cuz the way he just get obsessed with the idea of christmas was not normal. And the way he just try to be someone who he is not. Until the end he realize that WHO he really is, is not boring, is not bad.
I agree. I always took this movie as self acceptance. You can change and grow and like new and different things but not change who are at the core. Being okay with who you are and owning it.
@@ambert7614 I don't think it was ever mentioned anywhere in the film that jack wasn't okay with who he was, just bored with his everyday routine. In my opinion, its kinda fucked up that the movie says don't try to explore outside of your ingrained purpose, kinda biological essentialism.
The thistle flower, turning into a Christmas tree, then burning, was supposed to be Sally having a vision. It was meant to show you that what ever Jack was planning about Christmas, would fail horribly... But that was the only time in the entire movie she has a vision, so a lot of people didn't get it.
I only found out about that recently too, and I wish they had some type of precursor to her actually having visions. It really confused me when I was younger and when I watched it a couple of times afterwards
I laughed when you guys said it's not a kid's movie 😂 This was one of my favourite childhood movies! I watched it constantly. It's all made even funnier that I don't like scary, creepy, horror shows and films and never have. But there's something about this movie that is just ... different to me, somehow. My own kids have seen this movie several times since a young age and they enjoy it too.
The most unrealistic thing in this movie is the kids screaming and running from the creepy/gross Christmas presents. Maybe a few would be disturbed by that sort of thing, but "Ugly Cute" is a thing for a reason.
@@PhilBagels I take it you haven't seen modern cartoons. As a whole, cartoons have been trending towards deeper and more emotional storytelling that tackles harder subjects. Part of why they seem so different from, say, 90s shows, is that topics tackled in the 90s no longer need to be gone over, they were just incorporated into modern shows. Showing a character's death on screen was once considered shocking, back in the 80s and 90s, but it's no longer considered unusual. Cartoonists tend to understand that children won't shy away from something like that.
@@WisteriaDrake What does that have to do with anything I said? People keep making comments that "creepy" things like in this movie are not appropriate for kids. Sometimes even very simple things like clowns. Adults are making kids wimpier - or at least treating them like they can't handle it.
What you said about Jack seeming like an artist who isn’t satisfied with what he’s doing, is exactly how Danny Elfman (the writer of the songs and singing voice of Jack) felt about being the lead singer of Oingo Boingo. So he essentially just wrote about how he didn’t want to be in a band anymore but made it spooky
The film took three years to make. And Tim Burton got all the attention for it thanks to being the big established name as a producer, but the director is actually Henry Sellick, who also did the stop-motion Coraline film.
I might be biased because I grew up watching this (and Tim Burton in general), but I think childhood is the perfect time to see it. I feel like most teens/adults I've shown it to are just kind of 'meh' about it, but every kid loves it. One of my favorite movies and soundtracks of all time. Great reaction!
"This is not a kids movie" oh my,so sensible in this times,I've always loved it as little kid,also coraline,amazing,as kid I've always watched also CSI and the mummy,and loved them
Yeah I was a kid when I watched this and I loved it, growing up in the late 80s and early 90s it feels like there was much less of a distinction between kids and adult movies. One of my favourites from an early age was return to oz which would probably traumatise kids today lol.
As a kid, I watched Courage the Cowardly Dog (full of horrific things, to say the least), and gained a 'guilty pleasure' type of fascination with more horrific elements ^Just because some kids might be frightened, doesn't mean we all will be :P
Jack Skellington was voiced by Chris Sarandon. You’ll remember him as ‘Prince Humperdinck’ in THE PRINCESS BRIDE, the detective in the original CHILD’S PLAY, and the vampire in the original FRIGHT NIGHT. He’s got a really fun, exciting filmography. Sally is voiced by Catherine O’Hara, the mom from HOME ALONE and BEETLEJUICE.
his singing voice is danny elfman tho ^___^ chris sarandon only did his speaking lines cuz danny was so attached to jack (after writing all the music) tim burton agreed to let him sing ^___^ but hes not an actor thats why they got chris sarandon :]
They had separate people for the singing parts. Also, fun fact: the stop motion models had a bunch of different heads that they'd swap out for talking and emotional expressions. The way this was advertised with the teaser trailers, it was a kid's movie. I liked it as a kid and there were even McDonald's kid's meal toys for the movie.
Took me years to realize the joke they were going for with the Mayor. The fact that he has two faces (ha ha) and the line "I'm only an elected official; I can't make decisions by myself!"
I had to laugh every time you said this isn't a kids' movie. My dad took me to see this in the theatre when I was 5. He walked out completely traumatized and I thought it was the most awesome thing ever 😂
traditions... (probably forgetting a lot, meh) Christmas: parasite eve (PS1) video game nightmare before christmas movie home alone movie die hard movie a christmas story movie Halloween: nightmare before christmas movie parasite eve 1 (PS1) video game soul eater anime (content goes well with the nightmare before christmas song, wink amv) claymore anime (content goes well with the nightmare before christmas song, wink amv)
“It wasn’t a kids movie…” I disagree. We children of the 80s and 90s were trusted with the darker emotions. Our cartoon could be dark, but they were often layered with deeper lessons.
The thing I like most about Oogie Boogey was that he’s entirely a reference to the origins of the boogie man. He used to be called Bugman Bug being an old English word for Evil and then it transformed into Bagman then finally Boogie Man. So they made him an Evil Bag of Bugs.
“Not a kids movie” Nahh us in the 80’s and early 90’s watched this movie all the time, we handled this stuff with a grain of salt and just enjoyed the story and meanings behind the actions. Although this is movie may be a big reason why a bunch of us are obsessed with Halloween. We tend to live the more scary stories and haunted houses.
Danny Elfman was the singing voice for Jack. He also wrote and directed the music for this and MANY other movies, including most of Tim Burton movies. He also was the lead singer for the 80’s band “Oingo Boingo”. Chris Sarandon does Jack’s speaking voice. He was in other movies like the vampire in the 80’s horror hit “Fright Night”.
fun little music fact i picked up from sideways: during the "making christmas" song, the melody they're using is the dies irae, the ancient chant for death. they're not making christmas, they're killing it!
@@whitenoisereacts yes, it's even in lion king! it's so old that even if you don't know the dies irae by name, you're generally unnerved by it because of everything it's been in, and understand the implication.
Tim Burton only oversaw the production of this. The majority of his attention was on getting the Batman movies completed. Chris Sarandon was brought in to do the dialogue for Jack Skellington. He's well known as the Prince in The Princess Bride and the vampire who moved in next door in the original , and superior, Fright Night. Danny Elfman was slated to be Jack in the beginning but Sarandon was brought in to do just the dialogue while Elfmans vocals were used for the songs. He was the lead singer for Oingo Boingo in 1980s. He moved on from that success to become a reknowned composer for countless hit movies, as I'm sure you already know.
@@Goomyx1492 Excuse me. Travis should maybe rewatch the vid. They didn't mention any if the stuff I talked about. We all know Burton didn't direct. I mentioned why he didn't direct it.
I LOVED this movie as a child (still do ofc). My aunt and uncle introduced it to me thinking it would freak me out- backfired on them when I made my whole family watch it every year after that and now we know the songs by heart haha
This was one of my favorite childhood movies. I loved everything about. But I think it's funny that you say this is traumatizing for kids movie because to be honest, when I was younger, I didn't think it was scary at all. It was only after I became an adult that I started to realize how horrifying this movie is! I still love it, but man, this is scary!
going to your whole “this is not a kids movie” point, the music did interest me enought as a (very yound) child to have my parents buy me the vhs, but the visuals scared me, so i didnt watch it for YEARS after that. but i went back to it when i was around 10, and ive watched it at least once every year afterward. i can now say its one of my favourite films, for the story like, music, and visuals. i love tim burton as it is, but this was my introduction to his films and film style.
I remember when this came out, I was in 1st grade. And was not allowed to watch it, but was STRONLY drawn to the visuals in the store. When I finally snuck a watch the next year and talked my way into my mom being cool with it, i have watched it ever since yearly at least and know all the songs by heart! My favorite part is when he does the science experiments!
IM so sad that Henry Selick wasn't more noticed for this than Tim burton. once CinemaSins said that Henry Selick is called a discount Tim burton but there is literally SO MUCH EVIDENCE that Tim burton is a discount Henry Selick. Edit: there is also a film thing on Netflix that interviews everybody who worked on it and talks about all of that and it's really interesting.
I loved this movie so much as a kid, I actually remember trying to write a letter to Jack Skellington one year explaining the meaning of Christmas. It was probably the most naive/innocent thing I ever did lol
All 4 of my kids loved this movie and still do.... and they were born in 1994, 2000, and 2002. This movie was NOT a Disney movie at first. I remember seeing this movie in the theater at 10A the day it came out! It was so different from everything else at the time and really ushered in a mainstreaming of macabre style. The person who voiced Jack is also the person who wrote all the music and was the singer of the band Oingo Boingo before that... his name is Danny Elfman. He also did the music for the original Beetlejuice starring Michael Keaton. If you have not seen that movie I highly recommend it.
My kids know all the words to this movie. I am going to make a Nightmare Before Christmas wreath this year so I can keep it up frim Halloween through Christmas.
1) I actually did grow up watching this as a child🤣. It was a tradition for my sister and I to watch it every Christmas Eve. Surprisingly it didn't scare me although I'm scared of everything. 2) My sister told me that it can be seen as a take on cultural appropriation. Idk if that's intentional or not but it blew my mind to see it in that perspective because I always saw it as "Jack going through a long journey of learning self-acceptance" lol 3) In your free time you should really check out Ken Page's (voice of Oogie Boogie Man) live performance of the song. He still sounds AMAZING doing it. 4) yes this was another movie that I ran to tell my sister that "the cousins" are watching. You're officially a household name.
It's a little early for Halloween, but WOW!! Love this movie, and my sister likes it, as well. It was nominated for Best Visual Effects but lost to JURASSIC PARK. It was a box office disappointment, but gained a positive critical response.
5:36, that was achieved with something called the Beam Splitter, where they plaed the stop motion puppet in front of a mirror, moved the puppet in front of a blue screen, then blended the foreground and background together.
2:52 actually Disney didn’t originally have their name on it. They felt it was too dark for children and instead of change it they released it under touchstone pictures instead. It wasn’t until years later when it became a cult classic that Disney put its name on it and starting selling its product and added it to the parks plus started doing an overlay for haunted mansion.
I hadn't seen this movie until 3 years or so ago. Essentially, I was 23 when I first watched it. My sister, who was almost 30 at the time, thought I had watched this movie a million times like she had done as a kid. When I informed her I had never watched "The Nightmare Before Christmas" , I don't know if I had ever received a harsher death glare. 🤣🤣
I actually experienced the Halloween overlay on the haunted mansion (where they do up the ride to look more like if Jack had landed on the ride and tried to make it more festive) before I saw the movie. I’ve loved it ever since
When I was a kid Coraline traumatized me, and I didn't watch it for years after my first watched it. But I loved The Nightmare Before Christmas, and I have no idea why. I think it was Jack's character design, I thought he was cool I guess.
I screamed when I saw this notification, this makes me so happy especially since this is a classic Halloween/Christmas movie that have been with us for years, thank you!
@@whitenoisereacts Love this movie, my daughter and I watch this every year! New subscriber here, Im older but really enjoy see the younger react to my favourie films from my teenage years 😃 I want to recommend Billy Elliot and The Lost Boys! Hope you’ll react to them 🤗
I loved how concerned James was with SantaClaus well being and Sally's destiny. his facial expressions through out the video are everything. Very Sweet
3:54 On the original VHS from 1993-94, wires holding up the bats here were visible. I know that on account of watching the VHS a hundred times. I guess in later versions the wires were edited out.
This is Halloween! 🍁🎃 Hearing you guys talking about the animation and filmmaking of this movies is great. Fun fact: the composer for the movie, Danny Elfman, provided the singing voice for Jack.
YES YES YES!! This IS my Halloween and Christmas movie! I watch this movie on both holidays 🌌🖤💀 I honestly know EVERY line in this movie! I watch this every year since I was a child
I remember you saying this one was a little too weird for you which I can understand. I grew up with this movie so every "spooky" animation gets compared to it automatically lol. Idk I love how dark it is. I think it opened a lot of doors for similar animation styles.
@@whitenoisereacts Lol yeah, just depends on the kid I guess. I was about 4 or 5 when I watched it the first time and I loved it. But I've always been drawn to anything creepy or horror related.
@@katwebbxo Yeah like I LOVED/love this movie and the other animations like Corpse Bride, etc. But my sister? It freaked her out completely. Recently we played Nightmare Before Christmas themed Monopoly and she was concerned. But again, I love horror and creepy things in general while she never has so it could be risky watching depending on the child lmao
This movie is all about feeling and mood. It’s so ingrained in my memory that I can’t say that I’m even capable of watching this movie analytically. That would be like me critically thinking about breathing air. It’s something I simply can’t describe.
14:12 It’s funny you say it’s not a kids movie. Disney at one point feared that kids would be be to scared of the characters, so they instead had “Touchstone Pictures” represent it instead of Disney. They later found out that kids were just fine. In fact, they loved it, which is why it’s such a beloved halloween classic. It is in fact a children’s movie.
22:20 interesting you say that, bc Burton got the idea when he was at a store and they were taking down the Halloween merchandise and replacing it with Christmas... He was inspired by the juxtaposition. Also very random, but I have to point out that Sally was performed by the mom in Beetlejuice/Home Alone and Jack's speaking voice is Prince Humperdinck from Princess Bride. The scientist is the grumpy uncle in Christmas Vacation. Loving this reaction, you made good points about this movie, which I never thought of despite first seeing this a year after it came out. Btw I was 11 and loved it; wasn't scared at all. I think it's very much a kid's movie 🤷 but definitely for adults as well.
I loved this movie as a kid. I remember my mum and aunt taking me and my cousin to see it at the cinema in '93. I was amazed but my cousin had nightmares for weeks haha.
If you can find the recobbled cut of The Thief and The Cobbler that would be an amazing reaction. I mean even the musical version is watchable, but the recobbled cut makes use of all the unfinished footage and puts the storyboards and sketches right into the rest of what is, arguably, the best animation ever made.
You mentioned a sequal to this. Well a book is due to be released in a few months called "Long Live The Pumpkin Queen", and it tells the story of Jack and Sally together at last and the difficulties she has to deal with as the new Queen of Halloween. But she finds an long forgotten door that leads to Dream Town, where she unleashes Halloween's nightmares.
So fascinating. Different generations see this so differently. To me this is absolutely a kids movie. Then again, we grew up with the Dark Crystal, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, Legend etc… So this in comparison is just a whole lot of fun.
Funny you mention a sequel, because there's very recently a book sequel, either going to be published or already published, which tells a story of Sally's struggle of now being the Pumpkin Queen and the stress that comes with having that title
Halloween and Christmas used to be the same celebration and went from November the 5th to February the 2nd, that's why you still sometimes have scary movies on at Christmas :)
My kid's loved this movie, And they weren't traumatized". Now we play it for my grandkids, And they love it too". I'm glad you both enjoyed it in your own ways. Take care..xx
This is my favorite Halloween and Christmas movie to watch with my family and since I have 2 older brothers I joked that us three were the trick or treaters and dad was jack skellington so I'd change the start of the kidnap sandy claws song from 'jack said we should work together' to 'dad said we should work together' lol
this was my nephew’s first favorite movie, he’d always sit down to watch it fully and we still put it on occasionally to put him down for a nap (he’s almost 3). my mom used to say it’s bc i was his favorite aunt since he was born and i give off “halloween vibes” with my style. he was never scared and always gravitated towards spooky things (:
Them talking about how this isn't a kid's movie and how traumatizing this movie would be as a kid, meanwhile this was one of my favorite movies by the age of 7 or 8 if not earlier
"This is not a kids movie" Meanwhile, my siblings and I were raised on this... and celebrate Halloween like Jack does, with a black christmas tree and halloween ornaments and a family get together... and my mom's wedding she dressed as sally, her husband jack, and my sisters and I were lock, shock, barrel while our step-brother was zero :D
"The Movies That Made Us" did a piece on Nightmare Before Christmas. Tim Burton was originally asked to directed; however, he was also scheduled to direct Batman at the same time. Obviously, he chose Batman and put a long time colleague in charge of Directing Nightmare. Because Nightmare was his idea and story, he had a lot of control over the movie, even though he wasn't directing. The only reason it's "Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas" is because Disney didn't know what to do with the film. They felt it was too scary for kids, so figured that attaching Tim Burton's name would draw in skeptics. The movie was a box office failure that became a cult classic. Also, the famed musician and composer Danny Elfman was the voice of Singing Jack. Turned out he was a horrible actor and was replaced for the non-singing parts.
As a very young child, Boogey scared the hell out of me! As a teenager, I fell for the angsty one-sided romance storyline between Sally and Jack…. And now as an 33 year old adult, I just laugh so much because everyone my age loves “spooky season” and this whole movie is basically the vibe we all love…
I have grown up with this movie! My sister and I would parade around the living room to the intro at 3 years old! It's so beautifully done and will always be a classic! Fun little fact: when they were making this, they were also in the process of making James and the Giant Peach. So they used Jack's heads they had made to animate the underwater pirate king!
I remember getting the Nightmare Before Christmas on vhs for my 6th birthday. :) My mom and me would watch the movie for both Halloween and Christmas. I showed it to my daughter who's 3 and she absolute loves it. She will sometimes sing "This is Halloween" in the bath. XD
I always loved the darker themes in kids media. My favorite books and movies always had some sort of horror aspect to them. Don't underestimate what children can and cannot handle
I still can't get over Sally's weird little vision of the tree burning She has this one prophetic vision, and it's foreshadowing of what's to come, but she never has anything like that before, or after, and it's never explained Maybe it was added into the movie fairly late, and no one found any time to flesh that concept out? Or maybe I'm just missing something. Anyone got any theories or explanations??
Jack skellington was my first crush as a child, 5 years old. We watched it every Christmas (and every day for 1 whole year), it was absolutely amazing to me and still is. This year our 18 month old son will get his first taste of this classic and i cannot wait :) so glad you reacted to this
Having grown up with the influence of the older European Christmas traditions and being heavily into history and folklore, this movie always amused me. It only works with the modern mid late 20th century sanitized version of Christmas. Our modern Halloween has borrowed more than a few of its frightful customs from Christmas tradition. Throughout Europe and England days like St Nicholas’ feast in early december and the Christmastide were closely associated with horrors, haunts and strange omens. Look up Saint Nicholas’ compansions such as the French Pere Fouettard (a Sweeney Todd-esque child murderer from French Xmas), or the fiendesh Krampus and Perchten of German yand Austria. Not to mention Belsnickel, Knecht Ruprecht and the wintery witch Perchta. Santa himself is largely a New World merging of St Nick with the fur covered wildman Belsnickel. In Greece and in Eastern Europe we find Christmas time often associated with regional variations of Vampires and Werewolves. Ghosts, Goblins, Witches, Divination and Witchcraft are part and parcel of the European and UK tradition. Costumed guisers going door to door in costumes begging for drinks and tuppence and playing tricks on people remains a classic Christmas custom. There are the wild Christmas Bull masks, the Dorset Ooser, and the snapping horse skull of the Mari Llewd. During the 12 Nights (the eves of the 12 Days of Xmas) the spectral Wild Hunt and Frau Perchta’s ghostly company travel abroad, riding on ground or flying through the sky, heralding impending deaths, collecting souls, stealing children, and bringing winter weather. No Victorian Christmas was complete without the telling of ghost stories. A tradition that persists somewhat in the countless retellings of Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” and frequent release of horror movies during the Joyful Season (The Exorcist premiered on Dec 25, 1973). The popular holiday song “The Most Wonderful Time of the Yearl” (1963) specifically promises “There’ll be scary ghost stories”. So this movies effectiveness is predicated on a sanitized modern American Christmas (and even here in the US there are regions that never lost the old ways and others that have been seeing spooky revivals of Krampus and other classic Christmas customs
I was born in 1988 and I would watch this movie literally over and over again until I had to go to bed as a kid. I know this movie verbatim, from the songs to the regular dialogue and even the movements. I absolutely loved this movie as a child and it's my all time favourite movie to this day 😊
Fun fact; Oogie Boogie was heavily inspired from Betty Boop’s “Old Man of the Mountain” character. They traced over the old animations, trying out different animals to find a look they liked, most often as a walrus, and that likely led to Oogie’s body shape.
Another cool feature a lot of people don’t notice is the light on Zero’s nose is actually a tiny glowing Jack-o-lantern! When the film first came out on VHS, because of the low visual quality of TVs, lots of people assumed it was just a red/Orange bulb, similar to that of Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer. When the film was released to DVD and especially Blu-Ray, you could finally SEE the amazing quality and actually tell its a jack-o-lantern!
I didn't even know! That is such cool.
I actually have a giant Zero stuffed animal hanging from the ceiling of my bedroom 🥰🥰🥰
I’ve seen those movie since it came out and never noticed this until last night when my gf pointed it out after her first watch of it. I was mindblown!
Indeed, even though I watched the movie a million times as a kid it was years later before I finally noticed that.
Wait, really? Omg, I never noticed that before!
One of the funniest jokes to me is still the mayor, he's literally a two faced politician.
Such a great joke! And I'm ashamed that it took me so many years to actually figure that out, lol!
@@sugarbaby1974 I’m ashamed that it took me this comment to realize that’s what he represented lmao I always thought there had to be a reason he had two faces but it never registered to me that was the reason 🗿
@@min_says_h3110 I'm worse. I never even questioned why he had two faces 😔.
I always wished that they made at least a spinoff series where the Mayor was actually behind some evil deeds, including working together with Oogie to get rid of Jack because no one loves and respects the Mayor like they do Jack so being a politician he did shady crap in the back and started sabotaging other holidays and started blaming Jack for them. That would’ve been a cool story in my opinion. I always thought there was mysterious shady side to him.
He broke his neck thats how he can do that and he has a condition where he can be really happy but than really sad in a sec
You mention how this movie is a commentary on selling things early. That is EXACTLY how this movie came to be. Tim Burton was in a store back in the late 80's and saw them selling Christmas and Halloween decorations right next to each other, and it just triggered this fantastic idea for a movie.
Wait really? That’s so cool!!!
Yes,this is just the idea, in fact the movie is actually entire made by the sema of coraline, Henry selick,also the ideas of tim for this movies was pretty bad,in fact in his idea he wanted that the Oogie and The doctor where the same character with a costume,thanks god henry didn't listen and do all movie with his own head
I used to work as an event coordinator for Michaels (art & craft supplies chain). Halloween product went on shelves August 15th; Christmas product, October 15th. The last two weeks of October offer some chaotic mashups.
Henry Selick originally wanted Dr Finklestein to be Oogie Boogie but Tim Burton shut down that idea, in fact he was so pissed off that he kicked a hole in the wall at the filming studio. There’s a documentary on Netflix about the making of it where they mention that lol.
@@monkeybutt1219 there is also an episode on Disney+ about the props and making of this movie. Which is fantastic! 🎃☠️
The music was done by Danny Elfman and he was also Jack Skellington's singing voice. He was also one of the voices for Lock, Shock, and Barrel, along with Paul Rubens (Pee-Wee Herman). This movie is a masterpeice.
Yes, and be originally didn’t want any acting parts, but when he was writing the music, they asked him to sing the lyrics so they could hear how the melody went, and once he started singing they’re like “oh yeah, you’re gonna be his singing voice.”
Also don’t forget that Danny Elfman was formerly in a band called Oingo Boingo!
Catherine O'Hara is also the voice of Sally and Shock.
@@robertgronewold3326 She's a Canadian treasure...
Danny made Jack singing, Barrel and the Clown
I’m pretty sure that at the time Danny Elfman was writing the songs for Nightmare, he was going through similar inner conflict as Jack. Since the music was written first, Elfman was able to put in a lot of his personality. He was Jack
In my opinion Jack was depressed, cuz the way he just get obsessed with the idea of christmas was not normal. And the way he just try to be someone who he is not.
Until the end he realize that WHO he really is, is not boring, is not bad.
I agree. I always took this movie as self acceptance. You can change and grow and like new and different things but not change who are at the core. Being okay with who you are and owning it.
Thats one reason why I love this movie. It gives a message of accepting yourself at your core. Who you really are.
@@shevonneworley9631 but then it is also has the lessons don't try to do anything else and accept the status quo.
@@ambert7614 I don't think it was ever mentioned anywhere in the film that jack wasn't okay with who he was, just bored with his everyday routine. In my opinion, its kinda fucked up that the movie says don't try to explore outside of your ingrained purpose, kinda biological essentialism.
The thistle flower, turning into a Christmas tree, then burning, was supposed to be Sally having a vision. It was meant to show you that what ever Jack was planning about Christmas, would fail horribly... But that was the only time in the entire movie she has a vision, so a lot of people didn't get it.
I only found out about that recently too, and I wish they had some type of precursor to her actually having visions. It really confused me when I was younger and when I watched it a couple of times afterwards
People were confused about that??
I laughed when you guys said it's not a kid's movie 😂 This was one of my favourite childhood movies! I watched it constantly. It's all made even funnier that I don't like scary, creepy, horror shows and films and never have. But there's something about this movie that is just ... different to me, somehow. My own kids have seen this movie several times since a young age and they enjoy it too.
It's definitely a kids' movie! People are making kids wimpier these days. They can handle it!
The most unrealistic thing in this movie is the kids screaming and running from the creepy/gross Christmas presents. Maybe a few would be disturbed by that sort of thing, but "Ugly Cute" is a thing for a reason.
@@PhilBagels I take it you haven't seen modern cartoons. As a whole, cartoons have been trending towards deeper and more emotional storytelling that tackles harder subjects. Part of why they seem so different from, say, 90s shows, is that topics tackled in the 90s no longer need to be gone over, they were just incorporated into modern shows. Showing a character's death on screen was once considered shocking, back in the 80s and 90s, but it's no longer considered unusual. Cartoonists tend to understand that children won't shy away from something like that.
@@WisteriaDrake What does that have to do with anything I said? People keep making comments that "creepy" things like in this movie are not appropriate for kids. Sometimes even very simple things like clowns. Adults are making kids wimpier - or at least treating them like they can't handle it.
It was the very first movie I saw as a kid -- when I was 3.
Loved it and I would watch it over and over again.
What you said about Jack seeming like an artist who isn’t satisfied with what he’s doing, is exactly how Danny Elfman (the writer of the songs and singing voice of Jack) felt about being the lead singer of Oingo Boingo. So he essentially just wrote about how he didn’t want to be in a band anymore but made it spooky
The film took three years to make. And Tim Burton got all the attention for it thanks to being the big established name as a producer, but the director is actually Henry Sellick, who also did the stop-motion Coraline film.
Yep. Burton only visited the set 5 times during its long production, and hated Elfman's songs. They even had a falling out because of them.
Didn't Burton write the initial poem?
@@dosnostalgic that's not true at all... lol
@@ShadowArtist It absolutely is, and you can actually look all of this up, including Danny Elfman interviews about those very things.
I might be biased because I grew up watching this (and Tim Burton in general), but I think childhood is the perfect time to see it. I feel like most teens/adults I've shown it to are just kind of 'meh' about it, but every kid loves it. One of my favorite movies and soundtracks of all time. Great reaction!
If you guys haven't seen Hocus Pocus, I would die for a reaction! It's my favorite Halloween film.
"This is not a kids movie" oh my,so sensible in this times,I've always loved it as little kid,also coraline,amazing,as kid I've always watched also CSI and the mummy,and loved them
My daughter loved this film from she was 4 years old, now at 9 she loves to watch Midsumer Murders with me 😅
Yeah I was a kid when I watched this and I loved it, growing up in the late 80s and early 90s it feels like there was much less of a distinction between kids and adult movies. One of my favourites from an early age was return to oz which would probably traumatise kids today lol.
As a kid, I watched Courage the Cowardly Dog (full of horrific things, to say the least), and gained a 'guilty pleasure' type of fascination with more horrific elements
^Just because some kids might be frightened, doesn't mean we all will be :P
@@Omegafire17 ah used to love courage the cowardly dog too, such a great show.
Jack Skellington was voiced by Chris Sarandon. You’ll remember him as ‘Prince Humperdinck’ in THE PRINCESS BRIDE, the detective in the original CHILD’S PLAY, and the vampire in the original FRIGHT NIGHT. He’s got a really fun, exciting filmography.
Sally is voiced by Catherine O’Hara, the mom from HOME ALONE and BEETLEJUICE.
his singing voice is danny elfman tho ^___^ chris sarandon only did his speaking lines cuz danny was so attached to jack (after writing all the music) tim burton agreed to let him sing ^___^ but hes not an actor thats why they got chris sarandon :]
They had separate people for the singing parts. Also, fun fact: the stop motion models had a bunch of different heads that they'd swap out for talking and emotional expressions. The way this was advertised with the teaser trailers, it was a kid's movie. I liked it as a kid and there were even McDonald's kid's meal toys for the movie.
But firts touchtone distributed it, disney thinks was so dark and dont want happens the same of the black cauldron
Danny Elfman does Jack's singing voice. He's now a famous movie composer but he used to front the 80's band Oingo Boingo.
And don't forget Danny Elfman/Oingo Boingo do the classic Halloween song "Dead Man's Party".
He was pretty famous as a composer even at the time.
Jojos referenced it
@@glowormrdr6183 sucker for mystery gives me more of a halloweeny feel but dead mans party sure is good halloween party music
Is it a Halloween movie? Is it a Christmas movie? The world may never know.🎃☃️🎄👻
There's a simple answer to that question YES!!!!
Why can't it be both?
It's a Halloween movie. I tried watching it as a Christmas movie once, and it felt wrong, wrong, wrong!
I always split the difference and watch it at Thanksgiving. This and Addams Family Values
I just watch it twice every year; once at Halloween and once at Christmas.
Took me years to realize the joke they were going for with the Mayor. The fact that he has two faces (ha ha) and the line "I'm only an elected official; I can't make decisions by myself!"
I had to laugh every time you said this isn't a kids' movie. My dad took me to see this in the theatre when I was 5. He walked out completely traumatized and I thought it was the most awesome thing ever 😂
right? everyone's always like omg this dark thing is not for children and then children will be the ones who love it the most
A CLASSIC! arguably a Christmas movie as well.
traditions...
(probably forgetting a lot, meh)
Christmas:
parasite eve (PS1) video game
nightmare before christmas movie
home alone movie
die hard movie
a christmas story movie
Halloween:
nightmare before christmas movie
parasite eve 1 (PS1) video game
soul eater anime (content goes well with the nightmare before christmas song, wink amv)
claymore anime (content goes well with the nightmare before christmas song, wink amv)
I watch for both holidays 🤗
“It wasn’t a kids movie…”
I disagree. We children of the 80s and 90s were trusted with the darker emotions. Our cartoon could be dark, but they were often layered with deeper lessons.
YUP!!
It was a favorite of my friends and mine growing up and now it's a favorite of my 10-year old daughter.
Agree, I saw it in theaters when I was 10 or 11.
Exactly. Not sure why everyone is so soft these days lol.
I LOVED THIS MOVIE AS A KID! and it was on the family hallmark channel growing up..
The thing I like most about Oogie Boogey was that he’s entirely a reference to the origins of the boogie man. He used to be called Bugman Bug being an old English word for Evil and then it transformed into Bagman then finally Boogie Man. So they made him an Evil Bag of Bugs.
“Not a kids movie”
Nahh us in the 80’s and early 90’s watched this movie all the time, we handled this stuff with a grain of salt and just enjoyed the story and meanings behind the actions.
Although this is movie may be a big reason why a bunch of us are obsessed with Halloween. We tend to live the more scary stories and haunted houses.
2002 here I remember my school putting this movie in halloween and also Coraline
Touchone was a disney trademark to do 13 rated movies
Danny Elfman was the singing voice for Jack. He also wrote and directed the music for this and MANY other movies, including most of Tim Burton movies. He also was the lead singer for the 80’s band “Oingo Boingo”.
Chris Sarandon does Jack’s speaking voice. He was in other movies like the vampire in the 80’s horror hit “Fright Night”.
fun little music fact i picked up from sideways: during the "making christmas" song, the melody they're using is the dies irae, the ancient chant for death. they're not making christmas, they're killing it!
They use that in like all soundtracks ever lol
@@whitenoisereacts yes, it's even in lion king! it's so old that even if you don't know the dies irae by name, you're generally unnerved by it because of everything it's been in, and understand the implication.
You know Nightmare at Christmas is like Die Hard it’s a perfect holiday movie yet you can still watch it out of the holiday season.
Tim Burton only oversaw the production of this. The majority of his attention was on getting the Batman movies completed. Chris Sarandon was brought in to do the dialogue for Jack Skellington. He's well known as the Prince in The Princess Bride and the vampire who moved in next door in the original , and superior, Fright Night. Danny Elfman was slated to be Jack in the beginning but Sarandon was brought in to do just the dialogue while Elfmans vocals were used for the songs. He was the lead singer for Oingo Boingo in 1980s. He moved on from that success to become a reknowned composer for countless hit movies, as I'm sure you already know.
They literally said that within the first minute of the video.
@@Goomyx1492 Excuse me. Travis should maybe rewatch the vid. They didn't mention any if the stuff I talked about. We all know Burton didn't direct. I mentioned why he didn't direct it.
If you guys haven't seen The Princess and The Frog, you should! The hand animation is immaculate!
I will put it on the polls lol
I LOVED this movie as a child (still do ofc). My aunt and uncle introduced it to me thinking it would freak me out- backfired on them when I made my whole family watch it every year after that and now we know the songs by heart haha
Speaking voice of Jack was actor Chris Sarandon from Princess Bride and Fright Night. Jack's singing voice was Danny Elfman from Oingo Boingo.
I love Catherine O'Hara (Sally) she's such an icon
She also did the voice of Shock the trick or treater.
This was one of my favorite childhood movies. I loved everything about. But I think it's funny that you say this is traumatizing for kids movie because to be honest, when I was younger, I didn't think it was scary at all. It was only after I became an adult that I started to realize how horrifying this movie is! I still love it, but man, this is scary!
Jack's voice is Danny Elfman, formerly lead singer of the band Oingo Boingo and composer of more movie scores than I'll try to name.
going to your whole “this is not a kids movie” point, the music did interest me enought as a (very yound) child to have my parents buy me the vhs, but the visuals scared me, so i didnt watch it for YEARS after that. but i went back to it when i was around 10, and ive watched it at least once every year afterward. i can now say its one of my favourite films, for the story like, music, and visuals. i love tim burton as it is, but this was my introduction to his films and film style.
I remember when this came out, I was in 1st grade. And was not allowed to watch it, but was STRONLY drawn to the visuals in the store. When I finally snuck a watch the next year and talked my way into my mom being cool with it, i have watched it ever since yearly at least and know all the songs by heart! My favorite part is when he does the science experiments!
IM so sad that Henry Selick wasn't more noticed for this than Tim burton. once CinemaSins said that Henry Selick is called a discount Tim burton but there is literally SO MUCH EVIDENCE that Tim burton is a discount Henry Selick.
Edit: there is also a film thing on Netflix that interviews everybody who worked on it and talks about all of that and it's really interesting.
I loved this movie so much as a kid, I actually remember trying to write a letter to Jack Skellington one year explaining the meaning of Christmas. It was probably the most naive/innocent thing I ever did lol
All 4 of my kids loved this movie and still do.... and they were born in 1994, 2000, and 2002. This movie was NOT a Disney movie at first. I remember seeing this movie in the theater at 10A the day it came out! It was so different from everything else at the time and really ushered in a mainstreaming of macabre style. The person who voiced Jack is also the person who wrote all the music and was the singer of the band Oingo Boingo before that... his name is Danny Elfman. He also did the music for the original Beetlejuice starring Michael Keaton. If you have not seen that movie I highly recommend it.
My kids know all the words to this movie. I am going to make a Nightmare Before Christmas wreath this year so I can keep it up frim Halloween through Christmas.
Genius!
1) I actually did grow up watching this as a child🤣. It was a tradition for my sister and I to watch it every Christmas Eve. Surprisingly it didn't scare me although I'm scared of everything.
2) My sister told me that it can be seen as a take on cultural appropriation. Idk if that's intentional or not but it blew my mind to see it in that perspective because I always saw it as "Jack going through a long journey of learning self-acceptance" lol
3) In your free time you should really check out Ken Page's (voice of Oogie Boogie Man) live performance of the song. He still sounds AMAZING doing it.
4) yes this was another movie that I ran to tell my sister that "the cousins" are watching. You're officially a household name.
A take on "cultural appropriation?" 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣...🧨...💥...☠
It's a little early for Halloween, but WOW!! Love this movie, and my sister likes it, as well. It was nominated for Best Visual Effects but lost to JURASSIC PARK. It was a box office disappointment, but gained a positive critical response.
I would put this ahead of Jurassic park personally, but it it had to lose, I’m glad it was to that film!
5:36, that was achieved with something called the Beam Splitter, where they plaed the stop motion puppet in front of a mirror, moved the puppet in front of a blue screen, then blended the foreground and background together.
This movie and corpse bride made me fall in love with claymation it’s so good!
Best part about this movie is that it’s both a Halloween and a Christmas movie so you can watch it on either Holiday
2:52 actually Disney didn’t originally have their name on it. They felt it was too dark for children and instead of change it they released it under touchstone pictures instead. It wasn’t until years later when it became a cult classic that Disney put its name on it and starting selling its product and added it to the parks plus started doing an overlay for haunted mansion.
This is a classic kids film. I loved it as a little kid and I still love it now as a 30 year old.
I was a 80/90's kid and you'll be surprised what was a kids films. Times weren't so strict back then.
I hadn't seen this movie until 3 years or so ago. Essentially, I was 23 when I first watched it. My sister, who was almost 30 at the time, thought I had watched this movie a million times like she had done as a kid. When I informed her I had never watched "The Nightmare Before Christmas" , I don't know if I had ever received a harsher death glare. 🤣🤣
I actually experienced the Halloween overlay on the haunted mansion (where they do up the ride to look more like if Jack had landed on the ride and tried to make it more festive) before I saw the movie. I’ve loved it ever since
When I was a kid Coraline traumatized me, and I didn't watch it for years after my first watched it. But I loved The Nightmare Before Christmas, and I have no idea why. I think it was Jack's character design, I thought he was cool I guess.
I screamed when I saw this notification, this makes me so happy especially since this is a classic Halloween/Christmas movie that have been with us for years, thank you!
Of course!!!
@@whitenoisereacts
Love this movie, my daughter and I watch this every year! New subscriber here, Im older but really enjoy see the younger react to my favourie films from my teenage years 😃
I want to recommend Billy Elliot and The Lost Boys! Hope you’ll react to them 🤗
I loved how concerned James was with SantaClaus well being and Sally's destiny. his facial expressions through out the video are everything. Very Sweet
3:54 On the original VHS from 1993-94, wires holding up the bats here were visible. I know that on account of watching the VHS a hundred times. I guess in later versions the wires were edited out.
This is Halloween! 🍁🎃 Hearing you guys talking about the animation and filmmaking of this movies is great.
Fun fact: the composer for the movie, Danny Elfman, provided the singing voice for Jack.
YES YES YES!!
This IS my Halloween and Christmas movie!
I watch this movie on both holidays 🌌🖤💀
I honestly know EVERY line in this movie! I watch this every year since I was a child
When Sally sees the tree going into flames, that's her seeing a vision of it going wrong.
I remember you saying this one was a little too weird for you which I can understand. I grew up with this movie so every "spooky" animation gets compared to it automatically lol. Idk I love how dark it is. I think it opened a lot of doors for similar animation styles.
Just don’t know if I’d want to traumatize my kid lol
@@whitenoisereacts Lol yeah, just depends on the kid I guess. I was about 4 or 5 when I watched it the first time and I loved it. But I've always been drawn to anything creepy or horror related.
@@katwebbxo Yeah like I LOVED/love this movie and the other animations like Corpse Bride, etc. But my sister? It freaked her out completely. Recently we played Nightmare Before Christmas themed Monopoly and she was concerned. But again, I love horror and creepy things in general while she never has so it could be risky watching depending on the child lmao
@@whitenoisereacts my 9 yo girl loves this and Corpse Bride 😁
I think just depends really. Both of my kids grew up watching this and coraline and they aren’t even phased by these movies.
This movie is all about feeling and mood. It’s so ingrained in my memory that I can’t say that I’m even capable of watching this movie analytically. That would be like me critically thinking about breathing air. It’s something I simply can’t describe.
14:12 It’s funny you say it’s not a kids movie. Disney at one point feared that kids would be be to scared of the characters, so they instead had “Touchstone Pictures” represent it instead of Disney. They later found out that kids were just fine. In fact, they loved it, which is why it’s such a beloved halloween classic. It is in fact a children’s movie.
22:20 interesting you say that, bc Burton got the idea when he was at a store and they were taking down the Halloween merchandise and replacing it with Christmas... He was inspired by the juxtaposition.
Also very random, but I have to point out that Sally was performed by the mom in Beetlejuice/Home Alone and Jack's speaking voice is Prince Humperdinck from Princess Bride. The scientist is the grumpy uncle in Christmas Vacation.
Loving this reaction, you made good points about this movie, which I never thought of despite first seeing this a year after it came out. Btw I was 11 and loved it; wasn't scared at all. I think it's very much a kid's movie 🤷 but definitely for adults as well.
The Mayor was Otho in Beetlejuice. Lock was Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman).
@@scottalynch I always forget about Otho/the mayor lol
I loved this movie as a kid. I remember my mum and aunt taking me and my cousin to see it at the cinema in '93. I was amazed but my cousin had nightmares for weeks haha.
If you can find the recobbled cut of The Thief and The Cobbler that would be an amazing reaction. I mean even the musical version is watchable, but the recobbled cut makes use of all the unfinished footage and puts the storyboards and sketches right into the rest of what is, arguably, the best animation ever made.
This movie was my childhood I had this in vcr and my mom would play it everyday for me before school I love it to this day
You mentioned a sequal to this. Well a book is due to be released in a few months called "Long Live The Pumpkin Queen", and it tells the story of Jack and Sally together at last and the difficulties she has to deal with as the new Queen of Halloween. But she finds an long forgotten door that leads to Dream Town, where she unleashes Halloween's nightmares.
We love this movie. We watch it every Halloween and Christmas.
So fascinating. Different generations see this so differently. To me this is absolutely a kids movie. Then again, we grew up with the Dark Crystal, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, Legend etc… So this in comparison is just a whole lot of fun.
So did I, and I'm 18
Funny you mention a sequel, because there's very recently a book sequel, either going to be published or already published, which tells a story of Sally's struggle of now being the Pumpkin Queen and the stress that comes with having that title
Wait what?! How did you find that out?!
@@KatieLHall-fy1hw I remember seeing a screenshot on Facebook of the book's synopsis
Halloween and Christmas used to be the same celebration and went from November the 5th to February the 2nd, that's why you still sometimes have scary movies on at Christmas :)
My kid's loved this movie, And they weren't traumatized". Now we play it for my grandkids, And they love it too". I'm glad you both enjoyed it in your own ways. Take care..xx
It's funny how everyone coddles kids today, or think they need to be coddled. 😂 We survived just fine!
@@Danisachan Exactly! 100%.xx
This is my favorite Halloween and Christmas movie to watch with my family and since I have 2 older brothers I joked that us three were the trick or treaters and dad was jack skellington so I'd change the start of the kidnap sandy claws song from 'jack said we should work together' to 'dad said we should work together' lol
The whole soundtrack is awesome. Some of his best works
this was my nephew’s first favorite movie, he’d always sit down to watch it fully and we still put it on occasionally to put him down for a nap (he’s almost 3). my mom used to say it’s bc i was his favorite aunt since he was born and i give off “halloween vibes” with my style. he was never scared and always gravitated towards spooky things (:
Fun fact: Catherine O’Hara (aka Moira Rose) is the voice of Sally and the female tick-or-treater
Them talking about how this isn't a kid's movie and how traumatizing this movie would be as a kid, meanwhile this was one of my favorite movies by the age of 7 or 8 if not earlier
"This is not a kids movie"
Meanwhile, my siblings and I were raised on this... and celebrate Halloween like Jack does, with a black christmas tree and halloween ornaments and a family get together... and my mom's wedding she dressed as sally, her husband jack, and my sisters and I were lock, shock, barrel while our step-brother was zero :D
"The Movies That Made Us" did a piece on Nightmare Before Christmas. Tim Burton was originally asked to directed; however, he was also scheduled to direct Batman at the same time. Obviously, he chose Batman and put a long time colleague in charge of Directing Nightmare.
Because Nightmare was his idea and story, he had a lot of control over the movie, even though he wasn't directing.
The only reason it's "Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas" is because Disney didn't know what to do with the film. They felt it was too scary for kids, so figured that attaching Tim Burton's name would draw in skeptics.
The movie was a box office failure that became a cult classic.
Also, the famed musician and composer Danny Elfman was the voice of Singing Jack. Turned out he was a horrible actor and was replaced for the non-singing parts.
i love when people get scared of stop motion movies or say they aren’t for kids because all these movies were my absolute favorite growing up
As a very young child, Boogey scared the hell out of me! As a teenager, I fell for the angsty one-sided romance storyline between Sally and Jack…. And now as an 33 year old adult, I just laugh so much because everyone my age loves “spooky season” and this whole movie is basically the vibe we all love…
Nailed it
I watched this movie and was obsessed with it when I was like 3 or 5.
frankenweenie, the corpse bride, and paranorman are also a must see
"It wasn't a kids movie..."
Bruh I was still watching this endlessly when I was 6
JACK!!
I'M ONLY AN ELECTED OFFICIAL, I CAN'T MAKE DECISIONS BY MYSELF!!!
LMAO! That line always gets me.
Watching this reaction gets me hyped for Halloween, and it's only late September!
Another great stop motion for you guys to watch would be “Fantastic Mr. Fox” one of my favorite stop motions as well as movies. Love you guys!
"not a kids movie" lol, i watched a lot as a kid! still one of my favorites
Bruh, the Vampire teddy bear has got to be one of this movies most underrated characters I- 😔
there's technically a sequel. It's a book called "long live the pumpkin queen". It takes place after the movie
This is literally my comfort movie ❤
3:05, the 15th anniversary IMAX version had Patrick Stewart narrate the misadventures of Jack and his friends.
He's on the original soundtrack recording too.
I have grown up with this movie! My sister and I would parade around the living room to the intro at 3 years old! It's so beautifully done and will always be a classic!
Fun little fact: when they were making this, they were also in the process of making James and the Giant Peach. So they used Jack's heads they had made to animate the underwater pirate king!
I remember getting the Nightmare Before Christmas on vhs for my 6th birthday. :) My mom and me would watch the movie for both Halloween and Christmas. I showed it to my daughter who's 3 and she absolute loves it. She will sometimes sing "This is Halloween" in the bath. XD
I always loved the darker themes in kids media. My favorite books and movies always had some sort of horror aspect to them. Don't underestimate what children can and cannot handle
Love this movie, it been a tradition to watch it every year since it came out!
I still can't get over Sally's weird little vision of the tree burning
She has this one prophetic vision, and it's foreshadowing of what's to come, but she never has anything like that before, or after, and it's never explained
Maybe it was added into the movie fairly late, and no one found any time to flesh that concept out? Or maybe I'm just missing something.
Anyone got any theories or explanations??
"This feels like a musical," says dude after the 4th song kicks in! Hahahahaha.
Every time James says “that’s cool” or “that’s so cool” take a shot of something 😂🥃
Jack skellington was my first crush as a child, 5 years old. We watched it every Christmas (and every day for 1 whole year), it was absolutely amazing to me and still is. This year our 18 month old son will get his first taste of this classic and i cannot wait :) so glad you reacted to this
Having grown up with the influence of the older European Christmas traditions and being heavily into history and folklore, this movie always amused me. It only works with the modern mid late 20th century sanitized version of Christmas.
Our modern Halloween has borrowed more than a few of its frightful customs from Christmas tradition.
Throughout Europe and England days like St Nicholas’ feast in early december and the Christmastide were closely associated with horrors, haunts and strange omens. Look up Saint Nicholas’ compansions such as the French Pere Fouettard (a Sweeney Todd-esque child murderer from French Xmas), or the fiendesh Krampus and Perchten of German yand Austria. Not to mention Belsnickel, Knecht Ruprecht and the wintery witch Perchta.
Santa himself is largely a New World merging of St Nick with the fur covered wildman Belsnickel. In Greece and in Eastern Europe we find Christmas time often associated with regional variations of Vampires and Werewolves. Ghosts, Goblins, Witches, Divination and Witchcraft are part and parcel of the European and UK tradition. Costumed guisers going door to door in costumes begging for drinks and tuppence and playing tricks on people remains a classic Christmas custom.
There are the wild Christmas Bull masks, the Dorset Ooser, and the snapping horse skull of the Mari Llewd. During the 12 Nights (the eves of the 12 Days of Xmas) the spectral Wild Hunt and Frau Perchta’s ghostly company travel abroad, riding on ground or flying through the sky, heralding impending deaths, collecting souls, stealing children, and bringing winter weather.
No Victorian Christmas was complete without the telling of ghost stories. A tradition that persists somewhat in the countless retellings of Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” and frequent release of horror movies during the Joyful Season (The Exorcist premiered on Dec 25, 1973).
The popular holiday song “The Most Wonderful Time of the Yearl” (1963) specifically promises “There’ll be scary ghost stories”.
So this movies effectiveness is predicated on a sanitized modern American Christmas (and even here in the US there are regions that never lost the old ways and others that have been seeing spooky revivals of Krampus and other classic Christmas customs
🎵This is Halloween
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This is Halloween
Halloween
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I was born in 1988 and I would watch this movie literally over and over again until I had to go to bed as a kid. I know this movie verbatim, from the songs to the regular dialogue and even the movements. I absolutely loved this movie as a child and it's my all time favourite movie to this day 😊
The cool thing is Henry Selick still has Santa Jack and his full sleigh on display since it was his favorite apparently.
Fun fact; Oogie Boogie was heavily inspired from Betty Boop’s “Old Man of the Mountain” character. They traced over the old animations, trying out different animals to find a look they liked, most often as a walrus, and that likely led to Oogie’s body shape.