Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas.




                       Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas.


When I started my movie collection this was the first movies I bought on 

VHS and for those who don't know what VHS is, (it is what us old farts 

had before there were DVD'S ) my collect grew from there and this 

movie started it all. I watched it 3 times in a row after I got it and it got 

better every time I watched it, it's one of those movies you can't get 

enough of, the animation and the time it took Tim and his company to 

make it, makes that much better, so with that lets get to the story:




Halloween Town is a fantasy world filled with various monsters and 

supernatural beings associated with the holiday. Jack Skellington, the 

"Pumpkin King" and leader of the town, leads them in organizing the 

annual Halloween celebrations. However, privately Jack has grown 

weary of the same routine year after year and wants something new.

Wandering in the woods the next morning, he stumbles across seven 

trees containing doors leading to towns representing various holidays, 

and enters the one leading into 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; its ruler, Santa Claus.

Jack sequesters himself in his tower to study Christmas and 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, experiences a vision that their efforts will end 

in disaster, but Jack 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 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 bogeyman, who plots to play a game with Santa's life 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. While the media sends word via 

radio about the Santa-impostor, the military takes action and shoots 

down Jack, causing him to crash in a cemetery. While the devastated 

residents of Halloween Town think he's been killed, Jack has survived, 

and while he bemoans the disaster he has made of Christmas, he finds 

he enjoyed the experience nonetheless, reigniting his love of Halloween. 

But first, he realizes he must take action to fix his mess.

Jack returns to Halloween Town and finds Oogie's lair. Oogie tries to kill 

Jack, but Jack defeats him by ripping apart a thread holding his cloth 

form together, causing all of the bugs that live inside Oogie to fall into 

his cauldron. Jack apologizes to Santa for his actions. While still angry at 

Jack for ruining Christmas and not listening to Sally's warnings, Santa 

assures him that he can fix things and takes his leave.

As Santa replaces the Halloween-style presents with genuine ones, the 

townspeople of Halloween Town celebrate Jack's survival and return. 

Santa then visits Halloween Town and brings them a snowfall for the 

residents to play with, which in a way, fulfills Jack's original dream. As 

he flies away, Santa shouts out "Happy Halloween!" and Jack replies by 

shouting "Merry Christmas!" as snow falls. In the graveyard, Jack and 

Sally declare their love for each other.








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