The “Nightmare Before Christmas”

or the fourth year in a row, theaters are re-releasing Tim Burton’s famous Halloween story The Nightmare Before Christmas. The story follows the notorious pumpkin king Jack Skellington, who is trying to create a surprise for his town on Halloween. However after years of scaring the town’s folk, Jack (Chris Sarandon) has grown tired of doing the same thing every year. On his way through the forest outside of town Jack comes across several trees; each leading to a different plane of existence which represents a different holiday. Surprised and not fully aware of what he’s doing, Jack goes into the Christmas realm and is very surprised about what he finds there. Soon Jack rushes back to his reality and explains what he saw to his town. However, because the town is so accustomed to scary and mischievous thing, they fail to understand the meaning of Jacks experience. Determined to make the citizens of Halloween town feel what he felt while he was in Christmas town, Jack orders three towns folk to kidnap Santa so he can take on his role and do what he does except on Halloween. Soon, however he finds out that the scary things he delivers to children on Christmas actually scare them instead of make them happy. Determined to make things right Jack rushes to Halloween town to make up for what he did wrong.

The Nightmare Before Christmas in my opinion is a Halloween classic. It has all the things that makes a movie a classic. It has singing throughout the movie, which I normally don’t like but in this movie I make an exception. It has action and adventure, like when Jack is shot out of the air because most people think Jack impersonating Santa and most find his way home. It even has a little bit of romance, like when Sally a ragdoll woman tries to express her feeling to Jack through the film, but it’s at the end when she finally gets to tell him. The Nightmare Before Christmas, to me, is a great movie. If I had to give it a rating I would give it an eight out of ten for style and creativity. I would encourage all to go see it.