Have A Nightmare Before Christmas

 

 

“The Nightmare Before Christmas,” often promoted as “Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas,” is a 1993 American 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” and decides to celebrate the holiday, with some dastardly and comical consequences. Danny Elfman wrote the film score and provided the singing voice of Jack, as well as other minor characters.

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[/one_fourth][three_fourth_last]“The Nightmare Before Christmas” originated in a poem written by Tim Burton in 1982, while he was working as an animator at Walt Disney Animation Studios. With the success of “Vincent” in the same year, the Walt Disney Studios started to consider developing “The Nightmare Before Christmas” as either a short film or a 30-minute television special. Over the years, Burton’s thoughts regularly returned to the project, and in 1990, he made a development deal with Disney. Production started in July 1991 in San Francisco. Disney decided to release the film under their Touchstone Pictures banner because they thought the movie would be “too dark, and scary for kids.”

“The Nightmare Before Christmas” was met with both critical and financial success. The film has since been re-issued by Walt Disney Pictures and re-released annually in the Disney Digital 3-D format from 2006 until 2009, making it the first stop-motion animated feature to be entirely converted to 3-D.

The filmmakers constructed 227 puppets to represent the characters in the movie, with Jack Skellington having “around four hundred heads”, allowing the expression of every possible emotion.

The owners of the franchise have undertaken an extensive marketing campaign of these characters across many media. In addition to the Haunted Mansion Holiday in Disneyland, featuring the film’s 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. 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”.