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 The
Nightmare Before Christmas - Special Edition (1993)
For those
who never thought Disney would release a film in which Santa Claus
is kidnapped and tortured, well, here it is! The full title is
Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, which should
give you an idea of the tone of this stop-action animated musical/fantasy/horror/comedy.
It is based on characters created by Burton, the former Disney
animator best known as the director of Pee-wee's Big Adventure,
Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, and the first
two Batman movies. His benignly scary-funny sensibility
dominates the story of Halloweentown resident Jack Skellington
(voice by Danny Elfman, who also wrote the songs), who stumbles
on a bizarre and fascinating alternative universe called ... Christmastown!
Directed by Henry Selick (who later made the delightful James
and the Giant Peach), this PG-rated picture has a reassuringly
light touch. As Roger Ebert noted in his review, "some of
the Halloween creatures might be a tad scary for smaller children,
but this is the kind of movie older kids will eat up; it has the
kind of offbeat, subversive energy that tells them wonderful things
are likely to happen." --Jim Emerson (Amazon.com)
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![The Nightmare Before Christmas: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [SOUNDTRACK]](images/cover_contem1112.gif)
