The Nightmare Before Christmas Review: ★ 4 Quality & ☺4 Rewatchability (2865 Ratings)

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The Nightmare Before Christmas 1993

Henry Selick

Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara, William Hickey, Glenn Shadix

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Brandy E 9 months ago

Beautiful music! Enjoyable, but not captivating.

Daniel Jones over 1 year ago

It's a good movie, but...extremely overrated.

Davis Keck over 1 year ago

Despite years of imitation and a bit too obsessive cult following, it's still a classic.

Amanda Mathews almost 2 years ago

Definitely a Halloween classic. And Christmas classic.

Phetcharat over 2 years ago

Nothing new.

Guy Meltzer over 3 years ago

personally think this is elfman&burton at their best collabortaion.

Leif Jacobson over 3 years ago

A film that is enjoyable for two different holidays, or any day simply because it's great.

Matheus Yamashita Dos Santos almost 4 years ago

Creepy when I was a kid.

Eddie Ace Heitmann 4 years ago

One of the best stopmotions I've ever seen. It has it's moments, better than any other.

Ashley Beacom over 4 years ago

An all year thing, not just for Christmas and Hallowe'en

Laura Vastenavont over 4 years ago

its a good movie, there are some scary parts but also some magic ones

Ay Lin over 4 years ago

The perfect film for everyone with a soft & spooky spot in their hearts for Halloween.

Tyler Goetz almost 5 years ago

Classic

Annika Løchte Taylor almost 5 years ago

This is what I feel like the inside of Tim Burton's brain must look like. I'm a fan of it!

Kittypuff 5 years ago

Creepy and dark, beautiful story&aesthetic, odd, eerie... FANTASTIC! A classic must-watch.

Shawney Rogers over 5 years ago

I Love this movie i have watched it for Halloween and Christmas every year since I was 7.

Charlie Phillips over 5 years ago

I have loved this movie ever since I was a kid.

Brack King almost 6 years ago

sweet

Fae almost 6 years ago

I just didn't like it. It was so boring.

Chelsea Foreman almost 6 years ago

Classic, dark, and endearing.

The Nightmare Before Christmas, often promoted as Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, is a 1993 stop motion musical fantasy film directed by Henry Selick and produced/co-written by Tim Burton. It tells the story of Jack Skellington, a being from "Halloween Town" who opens a portal to "Christmas Town". Danny Elfman wrote the film score and provided the singing voice of Jack, as well as other minor characters. The remaining principal voice cast includes Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara, William Hickey, Ken Page and Glenn Shadix. The genesis of The Nightmare Before Christmas started with a poem written by Tim Burton when he was a Disney animator in the early 1980s. With the success of Vincent in 1982, Disney started to consider The Nightmare Before Christmas as either a short subject or 30-minute television special. Over the years, Burton's thoughts regularly returned to the project, and in 1990, Burton and Disney made a development deal. Production started in July 1991 in San...