After failing to stop Jack from carrying out his plan ('Sally's Song'), Sally attempts to rescue Santa to save both him and Jack from their potential fates, but she is captured as well. Jack tells Santa he will be handling Christmas in his place this year and orders the trio to keep Santa safe, but against his wishes, they deliver Santa to Jack's long-time rival, Oogie Boogie, a bogeyman with a passion for gambling, who plots to play a game with Santa's life at stake ('Oogie Boogie's Song'). He also tasks mischievous trick-or-treating trio Lock, Shock and Barrel to abduct Santa and bring him to Halloween Town ('Kidnap the Sandy Claws'). Jack, whom she secretly loves, dismisses her forewarnings and assigns her the task of making him a Santa Claus suit. Sally, a feminine creation of local mad scientist Doctor Finkelstein, experiences a vision of a burning Christmas tree detailing that their efforts will end disastrously. Jack assigns the residents many Christmas-themed jobs, including singing carols, making presents ('Making Christmas'), and building a sleigh pulled by skeletal reindeer. After studying and experimentation accomplish nothing, Jack ultimately decides that Christmas should be improved rather than understood and announces that Halloween Town will take over Christmas this year.

Jack sequesters himself in his house to study Christmas further and find a way to rationally explain it ('Jack's Obsession'). However, they do relate to one Christmas Town character: its ruler, Santa Claus, or 'Sandy Claws' as Jack mistakenly calls him. Awed by the unfamiliar holiday, Jack returns home to show his friends and neighbors his findings, but unaware of the idea of Christmas, they compare everything to their ideas of Halloween ('Town Meeting Song'). Patrick's Day) and stumbles into the one leading to Christmas Town ('What's This?'). Wandering in the woods the next morning, he encounters seven trees containing doors leading to other holiday-themed worlds (Halloween, Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, Independence Day, Valentine's Day, and St. One night however, this year, Jack has grown tired of the same annual routine and wants something new ('Jack's Lament'). Jack Skellington, respected by the citizens as the 'Pumpkin King', leads them in organizing the annual Halloween celebrations. Halloween Town is a fantasy world populated by various monsters and beings associated with the holiday ('This is Halloween'). It's the first stop motion Walt Disney Pictures animated film. The film has been reissued by Walt Disney Pictures and was re-released annually in Disney Digital 3-D from 2006 until 2010. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, a first for an animated film, but lost to Jurassic Park. While only a modest box office hit at first, it has since garnered a large cult following.

The film met with critical success upon release, earning praise for its animation (particularly the innovation of the stop-motion art form), characters, songs and score. Production started in July 1991 in San Francisco Burton really wanted to direct the film but he was busy filming Batman Returns and pre-production of Ed Wood so Selick was brought on to direct Disney initially released the film through Touchstone Pictures because the studio believed the film would be 'too dark and scary for kids'. Over the years, Burton's thoughts regularly returned to the project, and, in 1990, he made a development deal with Walt Disney Studios. With the success of Vincent in the same year, Burton began to consider developing The Nightmare Before Christmas as either a short film or a half-hour television special, to no avail. The Nightmare Before Christmas originated in a poem written by Burton in 1982 while he was working as an animator at Walt Disney Productions. The principal voice cast also includes Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara, William Hickey, Ken Page, Paul Reubens, Glenn Shadix, and Ed Ivory. Danny Elfman wrote the songs and score and provided the singing voice of Jack. It tells the story of Jack Skellington, the King of ' Halloween Town', who stumbles upon ' Christmas Town' and schemes to take over the holiday. The Nightmare Before Christmas (also known as Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas) is a 1993 American stop-motion animated musical dark fantasy film directed by Henry Selick (in his feature directorial debut) and produced and conceived by Tim Burton.

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