Is 'Nightmare Before Christmas' A Christmas Movie Or A Halloween Movie? A Scientific Analysis — mtv.com

It’s a question as old as time itself (assuming time began in 1993): Is Tim Burton’s stop-motion animated classic “The Nightmare Before Christmas” a Christmas movie or a Halloween movie? It has one foot in both worlds, straddling Halloween Town, the home base of Jack Skellington, and Christmas Land, Santa Claus’ domain. In the interest of distracting ourselves from just how many pieces of “Nightmare” memorabilia we own (Lock, Stock and Barrel stuffed animals? Check. Jack bone-printed hoodie? Check. The list goes on.) and to avoid the harsh reality that there are no Jack and Sally Halloween costumes that actually look good (humans just don’t look like skeletons when you get right down to it), we decided to settle the debate once and for all.

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