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The Nightmare Before Christmas


The Nightmare Before Christmas (also known as Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas) is a 1993 American stop-motion animated musical dark fantasy Halloween film directed by Henry Selick, and produced and conceived by Tim Burton. It tells the story of Jack Skellington, the King of "Halloween Town" who stumbles through a portal to "Christmas Town" and decides to celebrate the holiday. Danny Elfman wrote the songs and score, and provided the singing voice of Jack. The principal voice cast also includes Chris Sarandon, Catherine
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find a way to rationally explain it, but cannot. He ultimately decides that it's unfair for Christmas Town alone to enjoy the holiday and announces that he and the citizens of Halloween Town will take over Christmas this year. Jack assigns the citizens of Halloween Town Christmas-themed jobs, including singing carols, making presents, and building a sleigh to be pulled by skeletal reindeer. Sally, a beautiful rag doll woman that is secretly in love with Jack, feels that their efforts will end in disaster, but Jack
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invention that changes shape. Jack decided to leave Halloween Town to get new ideas for Halloween frights. When Jack comes back to town, he finds that Oogie Boogie has been resurrected. Now Jack has to set things right again. Jack dances, fights, and sings in this game to attack Oogie Boogie's minions. Jack is portrayed as inept to some degree in this game. Chris Sarandon did both the speaking and singing voice for Jack in this game. Jack Skellington features in the Nightmare Before Christmas downloadable expansion pack which
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The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Pumpkin King


, is a game for the Game Boy Advance released in 2005. The events of the game take place before the movie, "The Nightmare Before Christmas". The story tells of Jack's first encounter with his , Oogie Boogie, and how he claimed the title of "The Pumpkin King". This game was released at the same time in North America as "". The game starts with Jack Skellington preparing for Halloween, approximately one year before the events of "The Nightmare Before Christmas". Unfortunately, Oogie
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""Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas": Jack's story." Oddly enough, Jim Edwards actually contends that "Tim Burton's animated movie "The Nightmare Before Christmas" is really a movie about the marketing business. The movie's lead character, Jack Skellington, the chief marketing officer (CMO) for a successful company decides that his success is boring and he wants the company to have a different business plan. Some have wondered which real-life company failure the movie is based on: Sergio Zyman
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it would be "game over!" for him (Oogie). Oogie complied, but secretly vowed revenge. In the 2004 video game "The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge", Oogie was resurrected by his henchmen Lock, Shock, and Barrel, who sewed him together. He quickly deceived the residents of Halloween Town and tricked the townspeople into making traps for Jack stating that Jack wouldn't return if they can make an even scarier Halloween for next year. Oogie attempted to become the Seven Holidays King,
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dog who floats about freely and follows Jack wherever he goes. His nose, which is in the shape of a jack-o-lantern, also doubles as a bright light. In the "Kingdom Hearts" series, Zero is often called upon to search for someone. In "The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge", he will disappear and reappear depending on whether the player has completed the Halloween Town story. The following toys were created by the citizens of Halloween Town: The owners of the franchise have
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Jack Skellington, Sally, Pajama Jack, and the Mayor have been made into Bendies figures, while Jack and Sally even appear in fine art. Moreover, Sally has been made into an action figure and a Halloween costume. A Jack Skellington figurine is available for the "Disney Infinity" video game, allowing the character to be playable in the game's "Toy Box Mode". Jack is also the titular character in the short story ""Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas": Jack's Story",
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Jack Skellington


Jack Skellington is a character and the main protagonist of the 1993 film "The Nightmare Before Christmas". Jack is the "Pumpkin King" of Halloween Town, a fantasy world based solely on the Halloween holiday. Jack is voiced by Chris Sarandon. Danny Elfman provided Jack's singing voice in the film, although Sarandon has sung as Jack in subsequent productions. His overall appearance is a skeleton dressed in a black pin-striped suit and a bow tie that strongly resembles a black bat. Originally, his suit was meant
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antagonistic father figure for Sally to overcome, Finklestein also has a hand in helping Jack Skellington (of whom he seems to be very fond) with his plan to take over Christmas by bringing to life several skeletal reindeer to pull Jack's sleigh. At the end of the film, Finklestein, deciding that Sally is too much of a handful, creates a wife for himself using a portion of his own brain. Dr. Finklestein is featured in "The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge". When Jack is tired of
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second game, he tries to stop two Heartless outbreaks by yelling at the Heartless through his megaphone, but has no success. In "The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge", the Mayor is seen in the opening cut scene congratulating Jack on another "horrible" Halloween. He is later seen in the level "Mayor's Madhouse" where Jack rescues him from a cage hanging from the roof of his house. While Jack goes to Christmas Town, the Mayor frees the other holiday leaders. He is voiced by
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Jack Skellington's love interest. She is a very pretty, loving, caring, and shy rag doll who told Jack that Christmas and Halloween shouldn't be mixed. She is originally patched together by Doctor Finkelstein. Sally is the only one to have doubts about Jack's Christmas plan. Although her creator attempts to keep her constantly imprisoned, she often manages escape by slipping him deadly nightshade, causing him to fall asleep. Nightshade is a flower that grows atop the grave of a dead witch, as seen before Jack's
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the living gifts and replace them with the right ones. Santa Claus is last seen flying over Halloween Town as snow starts to fall. In "The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge", Oogie Boogie targets Santa Claus and leaves him hanging over the tracks for his scissor-tipped Oogie Train to drop him. Santa Claus was saved by Jack Skellington. When Oogie Boogie hijacked Santa's sleigh, Jack lets him use the same sleigh he used when Jack tried to improvise Christmas. Santa Claus appears in "Kingdom Hearts
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undertaken an extensive marketing campaign of these characters across many media. In addition to the "Haunted Mansion Holiday at Disneyland" featuring "Tim Burton's "The Nightmare Before Christmas" characters," Jack Skellington, Sally, Pajama Jack, and the mayor have been made into Bendies figures, while Jack and Sally even appear in fine art. Moreover, Sally has been made into an action figure and a Halloween costume. The Mayor has been made into a Bendies figure. Jack is also the titular character in the short story
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's New Coke or Merck's launch and subsequent withdrawal of Vioxx." While Yvonne Tasker notes "the complex characterization seen in "The Nightmare Before Christmas"," Michael A. Morrison discusses the influence of Dr. Seuss's "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" on the film, writing that Jack parallels the Grinch and Zero parallels Max, the Grinch's dog. Philip Nel writes that the film "challenges the wisdom of adults through its trickster characters" contrasting Jack as a "good trickster" with Oogie Boogie, whom he
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a new "Nightmare Before Christmas" film was in the works, with Disney considering either a stop-motion sequel or live-action remake. A collectible card game based on the film called "The Nightmare Before Christmas TCG" was released in 2005 by NECA. The game was designed by Quixotic Games founder Andrew Parks and Kez Shlasnger. It consists of a Premiere set and 4 Starter Decks based on four characters, Jack Skellington, the Mayor, Oogie Boogie, and Doctor Finklestein. Each Starter Deck contains a rule book
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, a Pumpkin King card, a Pumpkin Points card, and a 48-card deck. The game has four card types: Characters, Locales, Creations, and Surprises. The Cards' rarities are separated into four categories: Common, Uncommon, Rare, Ultra Rare. Quixotic Games also developed "The Nightmare Before Christmas Party Game" that was released in 2007 by NECA. A collector's edition "The Nightmare Before Christmas"-themed Jenga game was issued with orange, purple and black blocks with Jack Skellington heads on them. The set
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In the Forest" 6. "What's This?" 7. "Town Meeting Song" 8. "Jack and Sally Montage" 9. "Jack's Obsession" 10. "Kidnap the Sandy Claws" 11. "Making Christmas" 12. "Nabbed" 13. "Oogie Boogie's Song" 14. "Sally's Song" 15. "Christmas Eve Montage" 16. "Poor Jack" 17. "To the Rescue" 18. "Finale/Reprise" 19. "Closing"
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Yeo Hall at the college) the band played diverse pieces such as "Cold Play on Stage", a jazz arrangement of The Beatles' "Yesterday", superhero theme songs, "Black Orpheus" from Luis Bonfa, sing-along Christmas songs and more diverse pieces. In previous Christmas concerts the band played "Nightmare before Christmas", "Sabre Dance" from Khachaturian, a Herb Alpert trumpet feature, "The Longest Time" from Billy Joel, jazz music like "Take 5". During the next concert
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faces, each made with a series of eleven expressions (e.g. eyes open and closed, and various facial poses) and synchronised mouth movements." The film's protagonist, Jack Skellington is a skeleton who holds the title of The Pumpkin King. He is popular among the residents of Halloween Town, due to his charming personality and aim to please. Despite a lack of inhibition, he means well. He is in charge of Halloween. Having not left it within many years (as heard in the song Jack's Lament
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do this? Is everything going to be okay?' And she was fine, so we figured that would be a fun, fraught thing to happen between Jack and his mom, especially right before Christmas." This was Elaine Stritch's third appearance as Collen Donaghy, Jack's mother, on "30 Rock". She guest starred in the episodes "Hiatus" and "Ludachristmas". At the end of "Christmas Special", Jack and Colleen sing a duet of "The Christmas Song". In regards
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his collaborator on "Beetlejuice". McDowell and Burton experienced creative differences, which convinced Burton to make the film as a musical with lyrics and compositions by frequent collaborator Danny Elfman. Elfman and Burton created a rough storyline and two-thirds of the film's songs. Elfman found writing "Nightmare"s eleven songs as "one of the easiest jobs I've ever had. I had a lot in common with Jack Skellington." Caroline Thompson still had yet to be hired to write the screenplay. With Thompson's screenplay, Selick
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woods the morning after Halloween, he stumbles across seven trees containing doors leading to towns representing various holidays, and opens a portal to Christmas Town. Awed by the unfamiliar holiday, Jack returns to Halloween Town to show the residents his findings, but they fail to grasp the idea of Christmas and compare everything to their ideas of Halloween, although they do relate to one Christmas Town character; a red lobster-like king who flies at night named "Sandy Claws". Jack sequesters himself in his tower to study Christmas and
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kill Sally and Santa Claus, but is destroyed when Jack pulls a thread loose from him, which rips off the sack covering him and causes the majority of his bugs to fall into the lava pit. The lead bug is then squashed by Santa after it falls next to the pit. The rest of the bugs scurry off after this. In "The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Pumpkin King", Oogie's origins and the birth of his rivalry with Jack were revealed. As it turns out, he once had his
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now protagonists, having led the Mayor to Oogie's lair to find them. In "The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Pumpkin King", Oogie Boogie sends Lock, Shock, and Barrel out to nab the new "Pumpkin King." They come back with Sally instead, saying she looked like Jack in the dark. Throughout the game, they are behind most of the ruckus going on around town ranging from poisoning the acid pools, driving the leeches crazy, knocking down the town's street lamps, luring Jack into
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. In 2008, Sparklehorse recorded a cover of the song "Jack's Obsession," from "Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas" for the official compilation album "Nightmare Revisited". In 2009, Sparklehorse teamed up with Danger Mouse and David Lynch in the project "". Corliss et al. (2010) describe Dark Night of the Soulas “spooky, beautiful, (and)… bittersweet…considering Linkous’ untimely death.” In 2009, Linkous teamed up with electronic ambient-music artist Christian Fennesz
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for their personal achievement". For Walt Disney Records' September 2008 release of "Nightmare Revisited", Lee sang a remake of "Sally's Song". The album contains new material and covers of songs from the original "Nightmare Before Christmas" soundtrack. Lee performed live renditions of "Sally's Song" during the October 17 "Nightmare Before Christmas" re-release premiere in Hollywood, and for an October 13 appearance on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno". During an October 2008 interview for Spin.com,
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I Miss You (Blink-182 song)


both parts together at the end. "Mark was always really, really good with words, so a lot of times I would ask him for help with things, to get help with how I say things better [...] But we never really explained song meanings to each other," said DeLonge. Hoppus referenced Tim Burton's "The Nightmare Before Christmas" at the request of Barker, with the lines "We can live like Jack and Sally if we want... and we'll have Halloween on Christmas",
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first song which induces temporary somnolence upon consumption. This becomes essential to Sally managing to trick the Doctor and escape. Despite her makeshift appearance, Sally is a determined individual with a good feel for what is right. Fiona Apple provides the vocals for "Sally's Song" on the 2006 special edition of "", while Amy Lee provides the vocals for "Sally's Song" on "Nightmare Revisited". She also appears in "Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge". Sally is a
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Haunted Mansion Holiday


Haunted Mansion Holiday, also known as Haunted Mansion Holiday Nightmare, is a seasonal overlay of the Haunted Mansion attraction at Disneyland and Tokyo Disneyland that blends the settings and characters of the original Haunted Mansion with those of Tim Burton's 1993 film "The Nightmare Before Christmas". Taking inspiration from "The Night Before Christmas", the attraction retells the story of Jack Skellington (as "Sandy Claws") visiting the Haunted Mansion on Christmas Eve, leaving holiday chaos in his wake. The Haunted Mansion typically closes for two and
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where he mentions England, Kentucky and France), he felt his inspiration for his own holiday waning. Christmas Town gave him new ideas and inspiration. He also appears in "The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge". He is voiced in all appearances by Chris Sarandon, and his singing voice in the film was provided by Danny Elfman. Since the film was originally released as an adults product, as it was thought to be "too dark and scary for kids", in non-English speaking countries,
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Danny Elfman


Peculiar Children". Elfman also provided the singing voice for Jack Skellington in Tim Burton's "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and the voices of both Barrel and the "Clown with the Tear-Away Face". In 1990, Elfman composed the iconic orchestra piece, "Ice Dance", for the Tim Burton film "Edward Scissorhands". Years later he provided the voice for Bonejangles the skeleton in "Corpse Bride" and the voices of the Oompa-Loompas in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". In 2002
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album "Dreamsville" (2001). A version of the song was used in a Boots No7 commercial, directed by Dougal Wilson. The song appears on the 2014 collaboration album Dream a Little Dream by Pink Martini and the von Trapps as well as on the 2013 album Hushabye by Hayley Westenra. The song was recorded by Danny Elfman as the character Jack Skellington for the film The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) but not used. In 2015, British comedian Alexander Armstrong performed it for his album "A Year of Songs
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Vitamin String Quartet


instruments." It later expanded to include a variety of popular music. Their music was played 24 hours a day on FM broadcast station WWHK in Concord, New Hampshire. In 2008, VSQ contributed a recording of "Jack and Sally Montage" to "Nightmare Revisited", on which the Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas original score was reinterpreted by bands like Tiger Army, All-American Rejects, Plain White Ts, Rise Against, and DeVotchKa. Songs by Vitamin String Quartet were featured on the Fox television show "
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of Christmas Town. When Jack stumbles upon the town, he becomes mesmerized with the holiday and he tries to bring Christmas to Halloween Town. In order to do so, Jack orders Lock, Shock, and Barrel to kidnap Santa on Christmas Eve so Jack can take his place for the Christmas season. The three then take Santa to Oogie Boogie where the holiday figure's life is threatened. A last minute rescue helps save not only Santa, but the entire holiday of Christmas as well. Santa Claus manages to round up
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Minnie the Moocher


sings the song as his band (other members of Oingo Boingo at the time) respond to his calls. Oogie Boogie's song from "The Nightmare Before Christmas", which Elfman composed the music for, is also similar to "Minnie the Moocher". The popular refrain is performed by a funeral band in the 1999 film "Double Jeopardy" The song is played multiple times in the early stages of the 2013 film "Magic Magic" starring Juno Temple. In 1932, Calloway recorded the song for a Fleischer Studios
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kidnap Santa Claus and (against the wishes of Jack, who holds Oogie in great contempt) send him down to Oogie Boogie's lair, where he is bound to a giant roulette wheel. According to deleted song material (found in the soundtrack version), Oogie plans to add "Sandy Claws" to his new batch of Snake and Spider Stew, to "add a little Spice". Sally, after finding out Santa's fate, attempts to rescue him but is captured herself. Oogie then tortures and tries to
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Angry Kid


The Wizard of Oz"). Angry Kid then hits Speccy with a shoe, and the nightmares end. Angry Kid sings an acoustic Christmas song called "Merry Christmas Stocking Song". The video comes to Angry Kid is celebrating the side of a Christmas tree with an average of Santa Claus and he wanted to know what you got for Christmas. And he was given a leg. The video was recorded in 2010 and can be seen on YouTube. At the end of the video says: "Happy Christmas from Angry
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dismisses this and assigns her the task of sewing him a red coat to wear. He also tasks Lock, Shock and Barrel, a trio of mischievous trick-or-treating children, to abduct Santa Claus and bring him back to Halloween Town. Jack tells Santa he will be bringing Christmas to the world in his place this year. Jack orders the trio to keep Santa safe, but the children instead deliver Santa to Oogie Boogie, a gambling-addicted bogeyman, who plots to play a game with Santa's life
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The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge


full of Christmas presents. Luckily, Sally brings Jack's sleigh to help, and Jack and Santa chase after Oogie. Oogie falls out of the sleigh into a world of garbage after being frightened by one of Jack's jack-in-the-boxes that was dropped in the sleigh by an elf. There, he absorbs the waste and insects in the environment in a fit of rage and becomes a giant version of himself to beat Jack. Jack faces Oogie one-on-one. Everyone sees the battle through
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The Nightmare Before Christmas


comes in a coffin-shaped box instead of the normal rectangular box. A 168-card "Munchkin Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas"-themed "Munchkin" was developed by USAopoly featuring the citizens of Halloween Town such as Jack Skellington, Oogie Boogie, Doctor Finklestein, and Lock, Shock and Barrel. The game comes with a custom die similar to the ones used by Oogie Boogie in the film. A live concert, produced by Disney Concerts, was held at the Hollywood Bowl in October 2015, and was followed by subsequent performances
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ceiling and attacks Jack. Jack defeats the spider, saves Sally and receives the Valentine's Holiday Door. When Jack and Sally walk out of the crypt, she gives Jack an idea to use his Pumpkin King powers to defeat Oogie's monsters. Sally then says she's worried about Dr. Finklestein and Jack goes to find him. Inside the doctor's laboratory, Jack finds the brainwashed doctor, who attacks him. Jack returns the doctor to normal by switching his brain back. Jack then goes to the Mayor's courtyard to
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Haunted Mansion Holiday


set pieces in celebration of its 13th year. Walt Disney World Resort and Disneyland Paris do not have seasonal overlays. Outside of Phantom Manor, guests can get their photo taken with Jack and Sally. The Haunted Mansion Holiday takes place shortly after the events of the film it conjoins with, "The Nightmare Before Christmas", where Jack Skellington, who tried to create his very own twisted Christmas in a Halloween-style overlay in the movie, now discovers the Haunted Mansion, home to 999 Happy Haunts. Deciding to spread
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Disney Character Voices International only dubbed the film in a few languages in which adults movies, as well as kids movies, are usually dubbed, while in the rest of countries it was only released with subtitles. A few versions dubbed only the spoken lines, leaving the songs in English. Jack Skellington made cameos in the film "James and the Giant Peach" as the "pirate captain". Jack Skellington appears in the "Robot Chicken" episode "Anne Marie's Pride", voiced by Victor Yerrid. Sally is
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This article lists characters seen in the film "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and two video games: "" and "". The filmmakers constructed 230 puppets to represent the characters in the movie, with Jack Skellington having "around eight hundred heads", allowing the expression of every possible emotion. Sally's mouth movements "were animated through the replacement method. During the animation process...only Sally's face 'mask' was removed in order to preserve the order of her long red hair. Sally had ten types of
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The Nightmare Before Christmas


, 2008 as a two-disc digitally remastered "collector's edition", but still containing the same special features. Walt Disney 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 and a DVD that includes both a DVD and digital copy of the film. In 2018, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment issued a sing along version of the film in addition to the theatrical cut of the film
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save the Vampire Brothers. Each vampire gives Jack a key to the mayor's house. Jack finds the mayor and stops Lock, Shock, and Barrel; however, they drop him into a huge maze filled with booby traps. Jack escapes the maze and asks the mayor to release the holiday leaders. Jack soon realizes Oogie wants to kill Santa, and travels to Christmas Town. Jack rescues Santa from a train-contraption, but Oogie, having become enraged by Jack constantly foiling his plans, leaves in Santa's sleigh
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II". Sora, Donald Duck, and Goofy meet Santa Claus when they follow Jack Skellington to Christmas Town. He also made a reference about how Jack Skellington tried to improvise Christmas. Maleficent revives Oogie Boogie and sends him to capture Santa Claus. When Sora defeats Oogie Boogie, Santa Claus tells Jack that he should concentrate on Halloween and Santa should concentrate on Christmas. He also tells Sora to believe that he will meet Riku again. Later on, Santa's presents get stolen by Dr. Finklestein's Experiment. He helps
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heard from his henchmen, Lock, Shock, and Barrel that Jack was scarier than him and sent the henchmen to kidnap Jack. They however bring Sally, a rag doll-like creature who was Dr. Finkelstein's new assistant with a crush on Jack, back instead. Jack found the Town deserted on Halloween of all days and heard from the mayor that everyone was hiding from a bug infestation. Lock, Shock and Barrel wreaked havoc around the town while Jack was determined to get to the bottom of it. Along the
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25 Days of Christmas


", "Richie Rich's Christmas Wish", "Jack Frost", "Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July", "Arthur Christmas", "Rudolph's Shiny New Year", "Eloise at Christmastime", and "The Nightmare Before Christmas". On May 15, 2018, Freeform announced that the "Countdown to 25 Days of Christmas" will be renamed as "Kickoff to Christmas" for November 2018. The 2018 "Kickoff to Christmas" schedule was released on October 10, 2018. The
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he returned to his famous dress changes, although in a more balanced style. In the mid-1990s Zero dubbed the character of Jack Skellington and sang the songs in the Italian release of Tim Burton's motion picture "The Nightmare Before Christmas". In 1999, he sang his hit song “Il Cielo” at Pavarotti and Friends together with tenor Luciano Pavarotti, and later the same year, Italian diva Mina paid him a tribute with her album "Mina n° 0", containing ten of Zero's songs, including one
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at stake. Sally attempts to rescue Santa so he can stop Jack, but Oogie captures her as well. Jack departs to deliver presents to the world, but the Halloween-styled gifts terrify and attack the populace. As concerns over "Santa's" behavior grows, the military takes action and shoots down Jack, causing him to crash in a cemetery. As Jack bemoans the disaster he has made of Christmas, he finds he enjoyed the experience nonetheless, reigniting his love of Halloween. Jack returns to Halloween Town and
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finds Oogie's lair. Oogie tries to kill Jack, but Jack pulls apart the thread holding his cloth form together, revealing a massive pile of bugs that fall into Oogie's cauldron and are killed. Jack apologizes to Santa for his actions, and Santa assures Jack that he can fix things and returns to Christmas Town. As Santa replaces the Halloween-style presents with genuine ones, the townspeople of Halloween Town celebrate Jack's return. Santa then visits Halloween Town and brings them a snowfall for the residents to play with
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Jack make decoy presents to attract the Experiment. Jack and company get them back by hiding in a decoy present. After they defeat the Experiment, Santa Claus decides to give Jack a taste of what it's like to deliver Christmas presents. When Jack finishes delivering presents, Santa takes back his sleigh and brings forth beautiful snow drops as a present to those in Halloween Town. Santa Claus is voiced by Ed Ivory in the movie and by Corey Burton in the video game spin-offs. Zero is Jack's faithful ghost
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as a meetable character at several Walt Disney Parks and Resorts including Disneyland, Hong Kong Disneyland, Disneyland Paris and Walt Disney World. At Disneyland during the holidays, Haunted Mansion is taken over by the cast of "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and is turned into Haunted Mansion Holiday. Jack and other characters appear throughout the ride wearing Christmas attire. Additionally, Jack hosts the "Halloween Screams" fireworks show and the Frightfully Fun Parade. Chris Sarandon provided the voice for the character in each instance. Jack Skellington has been made
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way Jack helped the townspeople and in return collected weapons, upgrades and information. Jack heard from them about Oogie Boogie and that he lived under the treehouse on the edge of town. When he faced Oogie Jack learned that he was behind the whole mess and that he wanted to turn Halloween into Crawloween. Jack and Oogie had a battle to decide who ruled the town. Oogie was certain he would win saying that the town would be reborn as Bug Town. Lock, Shock and Barrel helped him saying that when Oogie took
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. The schedule includes 25 days of classics like, "Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory", "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation", "The Santa Clause", Tim Burton's "The Nightmare Before Christmas", "Jack Frost", Disney's "A Christmas Carol", "The Polar Express", "The Holiday", "Elf", "Jingle All The Way", "Scrooged", "Deck the Halls", "Toy Story", "Frozen", and "Happy
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#1 on Rotten Tomatoes' "Top 25 Best Christmas Movies" list. In 2001, Disney began to consider producing a sequel, but rather than using stop motion, Disney wanted to use computer animation. Burton convinced Disney to drop the idea. "I was always very protective of "Nightmare" not to do sequels or things of that kind," Burton explained. "You know, 'Jack visits Thanksgiving world' or other kinds of things just because I felt the movie had a purity to it and the
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, on the 2006 reissue of the film's original soundtrack which, featuring five covers of songs from the film, acted as a precursor to "Nightmare Revisited". The album also features Korn — in their last collaboration before their hiatus — covering "Kidnap the Sandy Claws" which is also their first recording to feature Ray Luzier on drums. Enhanced content on the disc features the trailer of "The Nightmare Before Christmas", as well. American psychobilly band Tiger Army also provided a cover of "Oogie Boogie's Song
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Elfman composed the soundtracks for the Sam Raimi "Spider-Man" series, except for "Spider-Man 3", to which he contributed a variety of work on the soundtrack, but did not compose the soundtrack. In October 2013, Elfman returned to the stage to sing his vocal parts to a handful of "Nightmare Before Christmas" songs as part of a concert titled "Danny Elfman's Music from the Films of Tim Burton". He composed the film score for "Oz the Great and Powerful" (
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and also appeared in HalloWishes and Halloween Screams fireworks at Magic Kingdom (where the host is Ghost Host) and Disneyland (where the host is Jack himself). "Nightmare" has inspired video game spin-offs, including "" and "", and is among the many Disney-owned franchises that contribute to the mythology of the "Kingdom Hearts" series. A trading card game is also available. Around the release of the film, Disney executive David Hoberman was quoted, "I hope "Nightmare" goes
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The All-American Rejects


December 2006. The band also collaborated with composer Danny Elfman on "The Future Has Arrived", which was included on the soundtrack of Disney film "Meet the Robinsons". The song was created in conjunction with the film's musical score. On July 17, 2007 the All-American Rejects released their second live DVD, titled "Tournado", with content from the 2006 headlining tour of the same name. Also during the summer, they covered "Jack's Lament" from "The Nightmare Before Christmas",
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But on December 23, Sally manages to send a magical paper airplane to find Jack to warn him of what has happened. Jack returns to Halloween Town on Christmas Eve, just to find Oogie's shadow. After defeating the shadow, he is given the Halloween Holiday Door and finds everyone was deceived by Oogie into making dangerous traps. Jack manages to defeat Oogie's minions created by Dr. Finklestein and goes to the graveyard to save Sally. Once inside a crypt, he finds Sally when a giant spider clings her to the
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the fountain, except for Sally, not wanting to see the battle. Oogie spills out his bugs, becoming nothing more than an empty husk, ending his threat for good. Afterward, Jack apologizes to Santa for almost ruining Christmas again, but having a change of heart about the skeleton, Santa thanks him for saving his life. Afterwards, Jack realizes that his home and loved ones are something more important than new discoveries. The story ends in much the same way as the film does, with Jack and Sally embracing
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"How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" on the film, writing that Jack parallels the Grinch and Zero parallels Max, the Grinch's dog. Philip Nel writes that the film "challenges the wisdom of adults through its trickster characters", contrasting Jack as a "good trickster" with Oogie Boogie, whom he also compares with Dr. Seuss' Dr. Terwilliker as a bad trickster. "Entertainment Weekly" reports that fan reception of these characters borders on obsession, profiling Laurie and Myk Rudnick, a couple whose "degree of
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celebrating two holidays. For the adults, it's an opportunity to experience some light entertainment while marveling at how adept Hollywood has become at these techniques. There are songs, laughs, and a little romance. In short, "The Nightmare Before Christmas" does what it intends to: entertain." Desson Thomson of "The Washington Post" enjoyed stylistic features in common with Oscar Wilde, German Expressionism, the Brothers Grimm and "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari". Michael A. Morrison discusses the influence of Dr. Seuss'
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Jack, please, I'm only an "elected" official here! I can't make decisions by myself!". Nonetheless, the Mayor seems to enjoy his position. He apparently owns the only automobile in town, a hearse-like car called the "Mayor-mobile" that is equipped with a loudspeaker for making announcements and a black cat-shaped hood ornament that sounds a siren when its tail is cranked. The Mayor supports Jack and helps him in his quest to bring his own version of Christmas to
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holidays during his childhood. "Anytime there was Christmas or Halloween, […] it was great. It gave you some sort of texture all of a sudden that wasn't there before", Burton would later recall. After completing his short film "Vincent" in 1982, Burton, who was then employed at Walt Disney Feature Animation, wrote a three-page poem titled "The Nightmare Before Christmas", drawing inspiration from television specials of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", "How the Grinch Stole
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This game was released at the same time in North America as "". A year after the events of the movie, a town meeting announcing awards gives Jack Skellington an award "for most spines tingled by a non-corporeal being". After the curtains close Jack reveals that, once again, he feels disappointed with this year's Halloween. However, having learned his lesson from before, he talks with Dr. Finkelstein about a "new Halloween", with new scares and discoveries. The doctor gives Jack the "
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the world, despite his secret misgivings about it. When Jack is apparently killed by the US Army, the Mayor openly admits he had a bad feeling about "this Christmas thing" and sorrowfully goes off in his Mayor-mobile to make the announcement throughout Halloween Town and the surrounding countryside that "the king of Halloween has been blown to smithereens". Later, he is told by Lock, Shock, and Barrel that Jack is in over his head and alive, and comes to retrieve him and Sally after Oogie Boogie
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Nightmare Revisited


Nightmare Revisited is a cover album of songs and score from the 1993 Disney animated film "The Nightmare Before Christmas". It was released on September 30, 2008 by Walt Disney Records to commemorate the film's 15th anniversary of its theatrical release. In addition to the album's eighteen covers are two re-recordings by original composer Danny Elfman, of the "Opening" and "Closing" tracks. One song featured on the album, Marilyn Manson's "This Is Halloween", was previously released nearly two years earlier
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the best I can!" are direct quotes from this cartoon. Another idea for Oogie's identity was for him to be Dr. Finklestein in disguise, gaining revenge on Jack and Sally, but it was not pursued past storyboards since Tim Burton scrapped the idea. This is visible on the Special Edition DVD. Unlike all the other inhabitants of Halloween Town, who are merely monsters who scare people simply because they enjoy it as a celebration of their skill and fun, it appears that Oogie is truly evil. It is suggested
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plot items and do not grant the player access to other Holiday themed towns. However, later Chapters allow the player to enter Christmas town. Each of Jack Skellington's costumes have different abilities. For example, Santa Jack (which is obtained once Doctor Finklestein is defeated) can throw out presents to stun enemies or freeze enemies in ice, and the Pumpkin King (which you get after saving Sally from a large spider) can burn enemies, open doors by burning them etc. Additionally, there are several unlockable costumes,
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Nightmare Revisited


announced that she would be performing her cover on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" on October 13, 2008. Marilyn Manson similarly performed his cover of "This Is Halloween" (from the reissue of "The Nightmare Before Christmas: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack") on "The Tonight Show" on Halloween two years earlier (October 31, 2006). 1. "Overture" 2. "Opening" 3. "This Is Halloween" 4. "Jack's Lament" 5. "Doctor Finkelstein/
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-American Rejects, and many more. American gothic rock band London After Midnight featured a cover of "Sally's Song" on their 1998 album "Oddities". LiLi Roquelin did a French cover of "Sally's Song" which was released on her album "Will you hate the rest of the world or will you renew your life?" in 2010. Pentatonix released a cover of "Making Christmas" for their 2018 Christmas album "Christmas Is Here!". Another soundtrack released in 2003 was the Disneyland "
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wonders of the outside world. It is this restlessness, or, more specifically, this desire for something better in her life, that draws her to Jack Skellington. In the beginning of the movie, she idolizes and admires Jack much like any of the other female members of Halloween Town; however, she quickly discovers that they are connected by the desire for something more in their lives, and her feelings for him intensify. The two refer to each other as "friends", though Jack seems unaware of Sally's
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death traps, and helping Oogie in the final battle. In "", Lock, Shock, and Barrel decide to revive Oogie Boogie when they learn that Jack leaving Halloween Town. In the game, Jack encounters the three one by one. In chapter 15, the threesome try to stop Jack a final time in their mobile bathtub on top of the Mayor of Halloween Town's house. He defeats them yet they spring a trap and drop him into a maze in Oogie's lair. They do not appear again in
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a huge grin on it like his near-permanent creepy smile). Their names are a play on the phrase, "lock, stock, and barrel." Though not totally antagonistic, they are usually the comedy relief. They appear to be Anti-heroes or merely neutral characters, as they'll work for most of those who summon them. Instructing them to "leave that no-account Oogie Boogie OUT of this!" (they promise to do so, but cross their fingers), Jack sends Lock
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Secret Santa (30 Rock)


featured on "30 Rock"s season four DVD as part of the deleted scenes in the Bonus feature. In the scene, Liz goes to Vattene, a men's dress apparel retailer. She is there to buy a gift for Jack for Christmas but is shocked at the prices. She then sees a red neck tie and purchases it. Jack tells Liz about YouFace, "an up-and-coming social-networking site", similar to that of MySpace and Facebook. The song Liz sings for Jack's Christmas gift
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a film which gained the normally family-friendly Disney "bad press". Tim Burton's stop-action animated musical film, "The Nightmare Before Christmas" (1993), depicts Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, wanting to become Santa Claus after an accidental visit to Christmas Town. After the mostly well-meaning but totally clueless Halloween Town citizens capture Santa, they then try to take over Christmas with disastrous results; the real Santa is almost killed by Oogie Boogie. Santa is voiced here by
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O'Hara, William Hickey, Ken Page, Paul Reubens, Glenn Shadix, and Ed Ivory. "The Nightmare Before Christmas" originated in a poem written by Burton in 1982 while he was working as an animator at Walt Disney Feature Animation. With the success of "Vincent" in the same year, Burton began to consider developing "The Nightmare Before Christmas" as either a short film or 30-minute television special to no avail. Over the years, Burton's thoughts regularly returned to the project, and in 1990, he
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Haunted Mansion Holiday" CD. Although most were not original songs from the movie, one song provided on the CD is a medley of "Making Christmas", "What's This?", and "Kidnap the Sandy Claws". Other songs included are original holiday songs changed to incorporate the theme of the movie. The last song on the list, however, is the soundtrack for the Disneyland Haunted Mansion Holiday ride. Disney decided to release the film under its adult film label Touchstone Pictures because they thought the film
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a literal interpretation of the phrase "two-faced politicians". Despite his office, the Mayor apparently has very little actual authority in the day-to-day running of the town, or has very little confidence in his leadership skills, especially in planning for Halloween. This is attested when he arrives at Jack Skellington's house to discuss some plans with him, not knowing that Jack is not home. When Jack does not answer, the Mayor quickly gets hysterical and yells, more to himself than anyone, "
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, Shock, and Barrel to "Kidnap the Sandy Claws" (the Halloween Town residents' mistaken name for Santa Claus). At first, they accidentally capture the Easter Bunny, whereupon Jack tells them to apologize and sends them back. They then capture their true quarry, and Jack takes Santa's hat. The trio then take Santa Claus to Oogie's lair, where Oogie taunts and threatens Santa. Once Jack has defeated Oogie and rescued Santa Claus, a hatch above opens and Lock, Shock, and Barrel appear
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The Nightmare Before Christmas (soundtrack)


The Nightmare Before Christmas is the fifteenth soundtrack album by American composer Danny Elfman. It was released on October 12, 1993, by Walt Disney Records to promote the 1993 American stop-motion animated musical dark fantasy film "The Nightmare Before Christmas". Composed by Danny Elfman, the soundtrack was nominated for the 1993 Golden Globe for Best Original Score. The album peaked at #64 on the US "Billboard" 200. For the film's 2006 re-release in Disney Digital 3-D, a special edition of the soundtrack
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White Christmas (song)


the pop chart twenty times before "Billboard" magazine created a distinct Christmas chart for seasonal releases. In "Holiday Inn", the composition won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1942. In the film, Crosby sings "White Christmas" as a duet with actress Marjorie Reynolds, though her voice was dubbed by Martha Mears. This now-familiar scene was not the moviemakers' initial plan. In the script as originally conceived, Reynolds, not Crosby, would sing the song. The song would feature in
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Switchmas


He is also inspired to make and direct a play called "Christmas Is For Everyone". Jessica and a friend sing and play guitar on the street for money, and Clare can sing but doesn't want to do it in public. She writes a song for the play, and Jessica and her friend agree to perform in the play. Clare and Ira round up kids from town to audition. Jack, a bully, sics his dog Killer on Ira, who climbs a tree to escape the dog. Eventually,
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Jack Skellington


includes Jack Skellington, Sally, Oogie-Boogie, Dr. Finklestein and the Mayor as in-game playable costumes. The downloadable content can be bought from console stores (e.g. the PlayStation Store). The package included the costumes of which some could be found in the downloaded level. Unlike the worlds originally in the game which all had 3 chapters, the Nightmare Before Christmas world only had 1 chapter called 'Halloween Graveyard'. Jack Skellington appears in four installments of the "Kingdom Hearts" video game series. He inhabits
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Flyleaf (band)


MTV2. The band toured with Seether in late spring, but had to cancel five shows due to a problem with Sturm's voice. The members of Flyleaf took the fall off to write new music, hoping to begin recording by January. Flyleaf also contributed a cover of the song, "What's This?" from "The Nightmare Before Christmas" soundtrack for its cover album, "Nightmare Revisited". When the band finished recording their second album, The band had selected 14 songs out of the 30 already written
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Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas


(despite Emmet's jug band having to frantically change songs after another contestant performs their song, "Bar-b-que"), only to be defeated at the last minute by a rock and roll band called "The Riverbottom Nightmare Band", which comprises a hoodlum gang from the fairly distant town of River Bottom made up of Chuck Stoat, Fred Lizard, Howard Snake, "Pop-Eyed" Catfish, and Stanley Weasel. However, as the Frogtown Hollow Jubilee Jug Band sing a song together on the
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on top of Spiral Hill. Gameplay in the game is very similar to Hideki Kamiya's "Devil May Cry", with the exception of it being easier for younger and less experienced players. Both titles were developed by Capcom. Jack can transform into Santa Jack and the Pumpkin King later in the game. Santa Jack can lay down three types of presents to thwart his enemies, while the Pumpkin King form can set them aflame or lay down a bomb. The gameplay consists of 24 Chapters (excluding two secret chapters)
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The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Pumpkin King


over the town would be theirs to play with. When Jack defeated him he ordered Oogie to fear him and not to leave the lair. Jack met Sally for the first time when he rescued her and Halloween went ahead as planned. Oogie Boogie vowed to get his revenge after biding his time. In the movie however it seems like Jack has forgiven the three minions. The game so far has a score of 69.43% from GameRankings and 71 out of 100 from Metacritic. IGN gave it a score of 6.5 out of
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Haunted Mansion Holiday


sits with Jack's Naughty and Nice list hanging out of its mouth. The Graveyard has been completely covered in snow and the spiral hill from Halloween Town sits in the middle of the graveyard, covered with snow and singing, glowing jack-o-lanterns. Jack Skellington greets guests at the gates, wishing them a Merry Christmas with Zero. A quintet of busts have been topped with singing jack-o-lanterns while the graveyard ghosts sing about their perfect Christmas. Ghosts ride around on bicycles with Jack's bonedeer.
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only Sally's face 'mask' was removed in order to preserve the order of her long, red hair. Sally had ten types of faces, each made with a series of eleven expressions (e.g. eyes open and closed, and various facial poses) and synchronized mouth movements." The stop motion figurine of Jack was reused in "James and the Giant Peach" (also directed by Selick) as Captain Jack. The film's soundtrack album was released in 1993 on Walt Disney Records. For the film's 2006
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Chris Sarandon


"The Resurrected". He also provided the voice of Jack Skellington, the main character of Tim Burton's animated Disney movie "The Nightmare Before Christmas" (1993), and has since reprised the role in other productions, including the Disney/Square video games "Kingdom Hearts" and "Kingdom Hearts II" and the Capcom sequel to the original movie, "". Sarandon also reprised his role as Jack Skellington for several Disneyland Halloween events and attractions including; "Halloween Screams", the "Frightfully Fun Parade
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used for filming. In total, there were 109,440 frames taken for the film. The work of Ray Harryhausen, Ladislas Starevich, Edward Gorey, Étienne Delessert, Gahan Wilson, Charles Addams, Jan Lenica, Francis Bacon, and Wassily Kandinsky influenced the filmmakers. Selick described the production design as akin to a pop-up book. In addition, Selick stated, "When we reach Halloween Town, it's entirely German Expressionism. When Jack enters Christmas Town, it's an outrageous Dr. Seuss-esque setpiece. Finally
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. However, the "Bat Forest" float returned every Halloween night, carrying Jack Skellington and Sally from The Nightmare Before Christmas. Disney's Christmas season in 2005 brought a further change to the parade, with the parade now running from Fantasyland to Town Square. While this brought with it a huge amount of technical troubles in the days after the switch, it allowed for better efficiency with the backstage parade preparation and meant guests would now follow the parade to the park's exit instead of back into the park. This change
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Merry Christmas from the Family


overloads the electrical system and knocks out the family's Christmas lights. The family then waits on the front lawn and joins together in singing "Silent Night" when cousin David flips the breaker that brings the lights back on. Keen calls the song the ""Rocky Horror Picture Show" of Christmas songs" saying that whether singing before a group of 1000 or 6000 the entire audience sings along. And in particular shouts out the line, "Mix Bloody Marys 'cause we all want one." Due to the immense popularity
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Burton says that Oogie Boogie was loosely inspired by Cab Calloway's 1932 appearance in a Betty Boop cartoon, and that he asked Danny Elfman to make Oogie's song in "Nightmare" slightly resemble Calloway's 1931 recording of the song "Minnie the Moocher". Elfman ended up referencing the Betty Boop cartoon "The Old Man of the Mountain" (1933), also featuring Calloway. Santa's line "Well, what are you going to do?" and Oogie Boogie's response of "I'm gonna do
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true feelings for him, as she is too shy to make them known to him other than through her sweet actions, however this could be argued because after Boogie's defeat, Jack and Sally are left alone and Jack sees that Sally tried her best to help him. Thus prompting him to finally realize how much she cares for him and how much he loves her in return. On the album to the film it is mentioned that years later Sandy Claws returned to Halloween Town and saw that Jack now had four or five
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