The Nightmare Before Christmas | Canadian First Time Watching | Movie Reaction | Review | Commentary

[@appropriate25]

I think it's pretty safe to say that most of us assumed this wasn't new to Simone

[@t.c.thompson2359]

Yeah I started thinking "so she has seen it"

[@GeoffCano]

Bet my life savings on it

[@anvaryusupov8245]

Yeah. George said it at the beginning 0:22

[@johnplaysgames3120]

When I clicked the video, I was thinking, "Okay, if they claim Simone hasn't seen this, all the trust I have for this channel will crumble instantly."

[@thedevilshelp]

Then they should change the description at the very least

[@dante340]

I really wish Henry Selick got more love and recognition for directing this film. Tim Burton wrote the poem and helped design the sets/ characters, but he had very little to do with the actual process of filming the movie. He was busy filming Batman Returns and Ed Wood at the time. Selick is the one who spent 3 years painstakingly bringing this movie to life... only to have everyone think it was made by someone else. As an artist, I can't even imagine how hurtful that must be.

[@SpiderandMosquito]

It is something that I believe burton himself has expressed much resentment towards. Feeling like his name was used more as a brand while the actual filmmaker gets largely forgotten. It's an unfortunate situation.

[@Eidlones]

I once got into a heated argument with someone who would not believe me that Henry Selick directed this. It's such a shame.

[@Johnny_Socko]

Tim Burton had always fully intended to direct this movie, it just became impossible when the schedule for Batman Returns started to interfere with the pre-production of Nightmare. Burton hired Danny Elfman, Henry Selick, and writer Caroline Thompson, and he created the initial design studies for the movie. I think he gets the appropriate amount of credit. (Although he did indeed object to Disney naming it "*Tim Burton's* The Nightmare Before Christmas".)

[@dante340]

​@@Johnny_Socko Exactly, Burton was a producer. All of the things you listed are what a producer's job is. They get all the proper pieces and order and set the wheels in motion. It's still not the same thing as actually MAKING the movie. That's where people are often mistaken. No one is denying this film is Burton's brainchild, his creative DNA is well woven into it. But he's simply not the artist who tangibly brought it to life. That's all.

[@indiatastic]

Who is henrymselick

[@EdwardGregoryNYC]

Elfman doesn't just sing, he composed the soundtrack. Elfman had a strong background in dark, fun music with his band Oingo Boingo.

[@kagemaru9773]

Great reaction, couple of corrections: 1: Sally is a ragdoll, not a zombie, that's why she's stuffed with leaves 2: The "Making Christmas" sequence is set between halloween and the following christmas, it does not encompass a year as you stated Sorry if I'm being a bother, just had to point that out!

[@UnciaAmethice]

And this also answers whether they didn't get a halloween. As you state - the main part of the movie takes place between the day after Halloween (it starts with them celebrating having just done a successful one) up until Xmas. So no holidays would have been missed.

[@SirPaladin]

There's an ending bit that's ONLY in audiobooks: And finally, everything worked out just fine Christmas was saved, though there wasn't much time But after that night, things were never the same Each holiday now knew the other one's name And though that one Christmas, things got out of hand I'm still rather fond of that skeleton man So, many years later, I thought I'd drop in And there was old Jack, still looking quite thin With four or five skeleton children at hand Playing strange little tunes in their xylophone band And I asked old Jack, "Do you remember the night When the sky was so dark and the moon shone so bright? When a million small children pretending to sleep Nearly didn't have Christmas at all, so to speak? And would, if you could, turn that mighty clock back To that long, fateful night, now, think carefully, Jack Would you do the whole thing all over again Knowing what you know now, knowing what you knew then?" And he smiled, like the old Pumpkin King that I knew Then turned and asked softly to me, "Wouldn't you?"

[@Crazyivan777]

IIRC It was also in the original sountrack release (I had it on cassette, and I remember it being on there.)

[@Cubs-Den-Reactions]

it's on apple music too! I just listened to it and read along 😅

[@GruffyddFO4]

Voiced by Patrick Stewart, no less...

[@Deathbird_Mitch]

This feeds into the rumours they've written a sequel.

[@heyheyjk-la]

If you guys haven't seen it, "Coraline" - also directed by Henry Selick - is fantastic. Based on the book by Neil Gaiman and the first film put out by Laika animation studio in Portland (well, outside of PDX, but still). All of their films have been great. You would also love "Kubo and the Two Strings" which featured what I believe is still the largest stop-motion animation puppet ever made, something around 12 feet tall. They did a whole exhibit of Laika's stop-motion artistry and that giant piece was amazing.

[@Wrencher_86]

They had Kubo on a Patreon poll a ways back and it got absolutely rinsed. Still bummed about that...

[@heyheyjk-la]

@@Wrencher_86 - Oh, yeah, I remember. I don’t think a lot of people saw it so don’t know how great it is, which happens fairly frequently in the polls.

[@HollywoodandWine101]

I saw kubo in theaters on a whim and was very impressed! Especially seeing how some scenes were made!

[@aychelleff]

Would love for these two to check out Coraline and Kubo! The former is a personal favorite of mine, but yeah, Laika is just an incredible group of people and I feel like you can’t go wrong with any of their work

[@PJ818]

Not directed by Henry Selick, but a great Halloween Laika film is ParaNorman. Love the movie, love the message.

[@matthewganong1730]

Before he was a composer, Danny Elfman was the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the new wave band Oingo Boingo. His lead guitarist, Steve Bartek, arranges and orchestrates all of his film compositions for him.

[@jypziiatthecrossroads9047]

One of Oingo Boingo's hits is "Dead Man's Party" a warm up for this score.

[@DJKuroh]

When he said, "He did the Simpson's theme," I just thought, "Oh George..." 😂 He's done so much more.

[@fynnthefox9078]

​@@DJKurohSpider-Man, Batman, Family Guy, the list goes on and on.

[@bee-zeesoul1018]

Jack in his talking voice is voiced by Chris Sarandon, but the actor who does Jack’s singing voice is actually Danny Elfman himself. He does it so well it’s near indistinguishable from Sarandon.

[@stephenschreiber2640]

Thank you for beating me to this!😊

[@FiresCollide]

Fun fact, Elfman was actually also supposed to do the speaking voice, originally. But he has no training as an actor so his voice was too robotic so they ended up casting Sarandon as his speaking voice could match Elfman's theatricality.

[@willvr4]

I'm all for a complete Simone voiceover cover singalong of this movie.

[@NicoGeeraerts]

yes!

[@BarryHart-xo1oy]

That sounds like a great idea.

[@dustywaynemusic6297]

I would consider joining Patreon for that

[@stuartmckitrick2149]

If memory serves, this movie was originally named "Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas" because Disney didn't trust that it would be a good movie. It was originally released under their Touchstone brand with Tim's name on it to hide themselves. After it became a huge hit, Disney changed to rerelease under the main Disney name.

[@johndoejjdujd]

I had the VHS tape with the Touchstone intro…. Back as i kid i never knew that this was affiliated with Disney

[@Dularr]

​@@johndoejjdujdor that Pretty Woman was a Disney movie.

[@tremorsfan]

Tim Burton was supposed to direct but he was busy with Batman Returns.

[@NicoGeeraerts]

Leave it to family friendly Disney to pull the scummiest moves in the business

[@Azurespix]

@@johndoejjdujd same here!

[@THOMMGB]

The smartest move Tim Burton ever made was to make Harry Selick the Director. Harry is a master and has decades of experience with stop frame animation. I'm pretty sure it was Harry's crew and people he worked with for years that built the town and all the characters props for this movie. There is a documentary of the making of this movie that would be well worth your time to watch. This is old school animation that's hardly ever done anymore, it's so difficult to do right. Simone was really belting out those tunes, like a pro. Really cool!

[@fynnthefox9078]

*Henry

[@GarrettJayChristian]

​@@fynnthefox9078 Harry is (strangely) a nickname for Henry.

[@foxkieran]

In addition to Catherine O'Hara, Chris "Humperdinck" Sarandon is also in this. He provided Jack's speaking voice (with Elfman doing the singing). The big guy from Beatlejuice voiced the mayor, but his name escapes me.

[@Rocket1377]

Glenn Shadix.

[@Deathbird_Mitch]

Let's not forget Paul Reubens.

[@BarryHart-xo1oy]

Glenn Shaddix is his name.

[@kinokind293]

And let's not forget the late Glenn Shadix, who portrayed the mayor in this and Otho in Beetlejuice.

[@Keleigh3000]

That was him! I love that he's a politician who is literally two-faced.

[@JackNapierDe]

When this movie came out, there was a short film before the feature movie. The short was 'Vincent' by Tim Burton, which - I'm my opinion - set the mood perfectly for the nightmare before Christmas. And it had Vincent Price as narrator.

[@dylanhamilton7190]

“Not all of it” proceeds to sing all of it 😂. Thank you Simone

[@DannyBedo]

When Burton worked with physical it came out gorgeous. “Batman” “Batman returns” “Edward Scissor hands” are masterpieces

[@michaelklappauf4408]

Watching Simone's childlike, fully genuine smile throughout this movie just made my day better.

[@Eric_1991]

I wasn’t expecting Simone’s singing, but I’m here for it

[@poolhall9632]

I used to follow her IG, she seems very artsy / talented. I think she was auditioning for acting roles at one time because she has headshots online. She's a gem for sure.

[@Deathbird_Mitch]

Sometimes they mention a movie she was in.

[@CraigKostelecky]

@@Deathbird_Mitch Android Night Punch is complete on KZbin. I thought they reacted to it at one point, but I cannot find that now.

[@Insaneian]

@@CraigKostelecky they did, but I think they had to pull the reaction down

[@dustywaynemusic6297]

​@@CraigKosteleckyshe has a few credits on IMDB including that. I'm assuming they're small independent projects but I've caught on that she's very talented at acting and VO

[@SenorMlem]

Fun fact for George, In Blink 192's song I Miss You, there is a line where "We can live like Jack and Sally if we want. Where you can always find me. And we'll have Halloween on Christmas And in the night, we'll wish this never ends" is sung. Which obviously references this song and had also further pushed the emo/punk/Nightmare Before Christmas mix and association.

[@michaelminch5490]

Catherine O'Hara voices Sally and one of Boogie's Boys. The other two were voiced by Danny Elfman and Paul Rubens (Pee Wee Herman) The Mayor is voiced by Glenn Shadix, also from Beetlejuice. If you dig Danny Elfman, he was in an '80s band called Oingo Boingo before becoming a movie composer...."Only a Lad" and "Dead Man's Party" are two good ones. The face inside the street band upright bass is Danny.

[@dracoargentum9783]

15:28 in a world torn between whether this is a Christmas movie or a Halloween movie, I just split the difference and call it a Thanksgiving movie; which ironically fits the overall theme and moral of being thankful for what you have.

[@TearYouApart360]

Its a movie about the inhabitants of Halloween Town celebrating Christmas.

[@Deathbird_Mitch]

2 notes. I've heard there is a story outline for a sequel involving the other holidays. ALSO Elfman puts on a concert of these songs every Halloween....just saying.

[@freeheeler00]

Yeah, I remember being completely blown away at the theater. I was a junior in High school.

[@SevenEllen]

I remember being very impressed by the stop motion. I was 10.

[@huangjun_art]

Simone singing along was the best part! XD PS; There should be a 'so cool' counter for George.

[@Insaneian]

Danny Elfman only did Jack's *singing* voice. Chris Sarandon (Humperdink from Princess Bride) was Jack's speaking voice. Before he did film scores, Danny Elfman had a band in the 70s, 80s and 90s called Oingo Boingo, and all their music is basically like the songs from this movie. They're amazing.

[@JohnWelsh-oz3jz]

Simone, I actually enjoyed listening to your singing! It was touching and made your love for this classic movie so blatantly obvious! Great reaction, guys! I really had fun watching it!

[@GhostWatcher2024]

My coworker Chris and I love the "whats this?!" song.... we had our own version whenever we had to deal with some lame customer specs at work... "What's this? What's this? There's bullsh* everywhere!"

[@michaelminch5490]

"I like that the dog has a little Rudolph nose." Hehehe....

[@boppenheimer_00]

After Danny Elfman was cast as Jack Skellington, they said he nailed the singing but his voice acting wasn’t good enough so they ended up keeping his singing and had Chris Sarandon do the voice, honestly had no idea it was two different people until I read about it.

[@phononanon]

I had the incredible good fortune to watch an original 35mm print of this, followed by an interview with the director live on stage! Burton basically provided his aesthetic Ideas, but all the direction and animation was handled by Selick and his team.

[@richardkirkland6805]

Fun fact: Zero's nose is actually a teeny, tiny little jack-o'-lantern

[@ThatSamoanGuy]

Jack is such an interesting character to me. He's clearly kind hearted and charismatic, he has feelings and cares, but he's also blinded by ambition and lacks some common sense. He gets so excited about Christmas, just like a little kid, that he doesn't think about the real world implications of what he's doing. He takes the practices and cultures of another land and basically tries to appropriate them for his own, and all because he's going through a mid-life crisis. The rest of Halloweentown is perfectly content and happy to keep doing what they've been doing, he isn't doing any of this to save the town or something; it's purely for himself. But he never does it out of malevolence, he never tries to manipulate others, and he genuinely cares. His moral lesson in the end is also very Christmas-like: Be thankful for what you have. People would KILL to be in his position, to have his life, and he complains about it like it's a burden. It's very "It's a Wonderful Life" to have him be unhappy with his life until he realizes what he has is a blessing.

[@russellhoyt588]

I saw this in theaters in 1993, and it's been one of my all-time favorite movies since that night!

[@spectral-tea]

I think the reason Tim Burton didn't direct this was because he was busy filming Batman Returns (another great dark/gothic Christmas movie btw). If you want to watch more from Henry Selick I highly recommend Coraline.

[@Alexeya13]

Completely agree for watching 'Coraline'. It's one of my Favorites.

[@fynnthefox9078]

Exactly, and can you blame him? You'd do the same thing if you saw all those zeroes on that Batman Returns paycheck as well as more creative freedom.

[@bradleybowles7979]

Totally Rad reaction! I love the fact that this is both a Christmas and Halloween movie! I saw this when it opened in the theater (and it's my second favorite Tim Burton movie after Batman). Everything in this movie just works, it's entertaining all the way through and the songs are some of the most catchy ever! Both Danny Elfman and Chris Sarandon as Jack are awesome! L Until next time, many blessings to you and yours.

[@CineBingeReact]

thanks bradley!! :)

[@sydhamelin1265]

I feel like Henry Selick gets overlooked on this one a lot, but it really was advertised using Tim Burton's name. But if you look at some other of Selick's movies, like Coraline, you see that the art is really in his style. The two working together made sense.

[@CaesiusX]

10:18 *George:* _"I need to show you _*_American Gods…"_* Indeed! I miss that show. *Orlando Jones* as *_Mr. Nancy_* had *THE BEST* monologues! *Bryan Fuller* is such a delightfully unique showrunner.

[@katiewarren4866]

Danny Elfman not only wrote the music he was also the singing voice for Jack. He was also dating the woman who wrote the screenplay for the movie

[@Dularr]

Funny part, it's not a Tim Burton directed movie. It was directed by Henry Selick. Perfect trivia question.

[@justurbaby]

The trio of lock shock and barrel, the kids who kidnap Santa, are voiced by Danny elfman, Katherine O'Hara and Paul Reubens for their song and the first time I realized that Kevin McAllister's mom was singing with Peewee Herman and the lead singer of oingo boingo it blew my mind to say the least

[@GruffyddFO4]

The three trick-or-treaters were Catherine O'Hara, Danny Elfman, and Paul "Pee-Wee Herman" Reubens. Before being known for composing TV themes and writing movie soundtracks, Elfman was the frontman/composer for the band Oingo Boingo. You should check them out, you might like them.

[@thormelsted]

One of the privileges of living in Los Angeles is getting to go to the Hollywood Bowl on or around Halloween to experience this film projected, with a live orchestra playing the music, and Danny Elfman and available cast members performing their songs on stage in sync with the film. - oh, and every year, at Disneyland, the Haunted Mansion gets redecorated to a Nightmare Before Christmas theme.

[@NicoAnimation]

I've gone to this 3 different years! It is so damn fun. Elfman really is the perfect voice for Jack.

[@davidpuerto1619]

It's so sad that this past year was a bit different with Paul Ruebin passing away not being able to sing his role. I'm sure they paid him some kind of tribute on the stage.

[@oscardiggs246]

Danny Elfman was the lead singer and chief creative force behind Oingo Boingo. When Oingo Boingo broke up, he started doing movie scores as a hobby. I hear he has been somewhat successful at it.

[@reverendB]

This was a great surprise! I'm all for Simone singing along!!

[@billyjak7]

One of my absolute all-time favorite movies! And even more special knowing that Simone loves it as well! ❤

[@bowlsem7]

"The Movies that Made us" episode about this movie is awesome (Netflix). It explains the Tim Burton connection or lack thereof with the movie.😂

[@thegunslinger1363]

The man behind this also did Coraline. Another stop motion masterpiece.

[@edwardbotha2946]

Took me sometime and several rewatches to get the stealth joke of the mayor: He's a real two-faced politician

[@TearYouApart360]

The ennui Jack feels is very relatable. Answer to 22:47: No. Halloween Town is celebrating Halloween in the opening credits. This movie takes place between Halloween and Christmas.

[@aeneasfate]

Adam Savage told a story from the animators on this and similar era stop-motion projects. They said the worst possible thing you could possibly do was to walk into the room full of rows and rows of every character's heads shaped for each possible mouth position, and open a packet of glitter. It would have completely shut down the entire production for months.

[@Uncle_T]

"Well what are you going to do?" "I'm gonna do the best I can!" Love this movie and the music is soooo good.

[@hayfrand5094]

You guys NEED to watch Coraline!! It’s literally one of the best animated movies of all time and it has been a favorite of mine since I was ten. Idk if you guys take suggestions from your comments or just from patreon polls, but I have loved your channel for about a year now and I would love to see you guys check it out!!!

[@buzzardbeatniks]

4:03 I think it's worth pointing out to people new to this movie that this is not a CGI film but is actual stop-motion puppets and miniatures, hence the "texture on the ground"

[@choomah]

I'm fairly certain George would really enjoy watching the 'making of' for this film. How they did the all the modelling and sets, the lighting, the rotoscoped ghost effects and so on.

[@river7567]

If I remember correctly, when the Disney execs saw this movie before it was released, they were concerned with how it would be received and wanted to add a little distance between them and it, so they titled it "Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas," since the story/concept/designs were his. That has lead to A LOT of people mistaking Tim Burton for the director and completely overlooking Henry Selick and all the work he put into this film.

[@CineBingeReact]

oo that's really interesting :) thanks river!!

[@heavycritic9554]

Fun fact: 2:47 (Just missed the line) "Tender lumplings" is the name of a song by Danny Elfman's band Oingo Boingo. I highly recommend checking them out. Fun, dark and creepy stuff, with a lot of tongue-in-cheek humour and some real bangers.

[@newworldastrology1102]

I only recently came across the poem Tim Burton wrote that formed the basis for this story. Christopher Lee reads it and it’s also on KZbin, well worth a listen!

[@hw2508]

Simone singing is ... heart warming.

[@teemujaakkola3157]

She should sing more!

[@rayvanhorn1534]

Me thinking Simone has probably seen this a couple of times…then she’s singing every lyric lol😅 Just a fun & quirky film that has really intrigued characters with more depth than what’s on the surface. (Hope y’all do more than two Christmas movies, & hope you throw us a classic as well. So many great seasonal favorites out there)

[@brom00]

Simone, there is another from Beetlejuice voicing a character as well. Glenn Shadix who played the interior designer/ exorcist in that, voices the mayor in this movie. George, have you seen one of Danny Elfman's early films, that was directed by his brother, Richard? It was called Forbidden Zone and it is truly bizarre and twisted. He did the music along with his early group The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo as well as being a character in the film.

[@batmanvsjoker7725]

This movie is a childhood favorite of mine. I know the songs by heart. Man, you guys make me feel like a kid again!

[@The_Rad_Dad3]

I think it was so amazing and heartwarming that y’all took the time to say happy birthday to my guy JL. That speaks volumes to your character. Hope you have a wonderful holiday

[@Deathbird_Mitch]

Yeah, he really appreciated it. It made him so happy. 😊

[@macronencer]

5:35 Oh man.. the SHADOWS on the ground. This film is amazing.

[@macronencer]

I went to see "Danny Elfman's music from the films of Tim Burton", an orchestral concert at the Royal Albert Hall, London, in 2013. I seem to remember Danny was actually 60 that day. He performed "What's This?" with the orchestra, among other things. I distinctly remember that at the end of the show he said to the audience "I want to thank you all, because this is the happiest day of my life" - it was really very touching.

[@ChristopherMcCullah]

I watched the Live to Picture Nightmare Before Christmas at the Hollywood Bowl with Danny Elfman singing live, with orchestra, including most of the original voice cast, including Catherine O'Hara, Ken Page (Oogie), and the background cast of Halloween town residents.

[@lethargiceffort2058]

I would love to see Simone react to voiceplay renditions of the songs from this movie.

[@louielouie22]

My kids loved this movie, but I loved it more😂 I love the Mayor, Jack! Jaaaaaack! 😂🤣

[@JebWCManning]

With the Christmas season coming up, may I make a recommendation if that's OKay? I recommend Ernest Saves Christmas. It has Douglas Seale, the same actor who played the Sultan in Aladdin, as one of the best movie Santa Clauses ever. Also, it's just really funny and heartwarming. It's got that certain Christmas charm that's perfect for the holiday. It's a perfect way to start the Christmas season.

[@bootz8775]

You got that Catherine O'Hare from Beetlejuice is Sally. But missed that Glenn Shadex (Otho) is the mayor 😊 love that you sing along to the words. I can sing the songs and dialog myself...proud and ashamed of that. Lol

[@davidmckie7128]

In the UK one December they showed the "What's This" song in Christmas Town as a sort of trailer and I was really looking forward to seeing it over the Christmas period. At the end they said it was coming out until the following October!!!!

[@davidanderson1639]

Fun Fact: Sir Patrick Stewart actually recorded a prologue & epilogue for TNBC. Sadly it was cut from the film, but does appear on the soundtrack album. The fire looks so good, because it’s actual shots of real fire that were then composited into the shot. You must watch The Corpse Bride & also Frankenweenie; that latter is based on an early short film by Burton. RIP to notable cast members. William Edward Hickey (Uncle Lewis in National Lampoons Christmas Vacation) - Dr Finkelstein William Glenn Shadix (Otho in Beetlejuice) - The Mayor Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman) - Lock

[@FiresCollide]

Fun fact: I once interviewed Henry Selick about making this movie, and we had a long conversation about how that shot of Jack's reflection as he reaches for the doorknob on the Christmas Town tree was the hardest shot in the entire movie to pull off.

[@PuppyMonsters]

10:50 EVERYONE went as Jack and Sally for Halloween for years after this came out. My friends and I did a group theme one year for a party where three of us went as Lock, Shock and Barrel, I went as Zero and another friend was Oogie Boogie.

[@ptittannique5621]

9:20 Holiday Day should just last 365 days a year... Everyone be ready for your one work day next February!

[@josephmayo3253]

One of the best Christmas movies ever. ❤ Good reaction guys. Love your singing Simone. So sweet.

[@matthew6427]

Awesome reaction 😎 Just wanted to add, it was very cool & nice to send J at OEM bday wishes!

[@maisiesummers42]

Tim Burton wrote the original poem, on which this movie is based. It's "Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Xmas" in the same way that people make "Bram Stoker's Dracula" or "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein" films. When this aired on TV, I recorded it on VHS, then hooked the VHS audio outputs up to a tape recorder and carefully went through the film, copying the songs to tape. I played that tape to death. Years later, I got the CD, and played that to death too. Like Simone, I can sing every song from memory. Perhaps not word perfect, but pretty damn well. FYI, Sally is not made from dead body parts. She's a ragdoll/scarecrow, which is why she's stuffed with leaves. Several of the townsfolk are based on toys, in addition to the more obvious supernatural creatures.

[@Tr0nzoid]

You can find some videos of Danny Elfman, Catherine O'Hara and Paul Reubens singing the "Kidnap the Sandy Claws" song, along with other songs from the movie.

[@alexbrunner1900]

Love watching this movie every October and December. I also really enjoyed your singing along to the songs 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@Benjamas-]

My wife’s absolute favourite movie. We have part of the lyrics of the final song as part of our wedding tattoos, which when combined have the line, “Together now and forever, We’re simply meant to be”

[@BigMike246]

Another story. I saw a live orchestra playing Danny Elfman music for Tim Burton Movies. Just as good as you can imagine, but better. I had only just realized that Catherine O'Hara is Sally. My favorite character. In England, Helena Bonham Carter sang her music and I was happy seeing her. I had only recently learned the Catherine O'Hara was Sally in the movie. Sally's Song haunted me for 20 years. It was a great great show. When it came time for Sally's Song, I expected Helena to come walking out. When I saw that it was Catherine, I almost jumped into the row in front of me. I swear I have never freaked out so bad under anything as I did at that moment. It was like a dream coming true seeing Catherine O'Hara singing Sally's song. It was a religious experience. In later years, they would do Nightmare before Christmas with a live orchestra. Paul Reubens would be there singing the parts he sang in the movie. I never got to see that. I had moved away. My friend, Bonnie, who was a friend of Paul told me it was one of the best experiences of her life.

[@stevenbolstridge596]

Danny Elfman provides Jack’s singing voice, he was also the singer of one of my favourite bands Oingo Boingo in the 80’s and 90’s. Chris Sarandon (Prince Humperdinck in the Princess Bride) is Jack’s speaking voice, apparently Tim Burton thought they sounded very similar, he always wanted Elfman to sing though!

[@moreno15266]

I love how Simone knows the whole songs especially the Christmas song

[@Von.Angelo]

So awesome that you reacted to this. It's for sure one of my favourite childhood movies!

[@seattlecryptid]

James and the Giant Peach is another like this, even involves a bit of a visual cameo from our favorite Pumpkin King as a Pirate. And Halloweentown in Kingdom Hearts is always my favorite to play!

[@BigMike246]

I saw this at the El Capitan once. There was a museum in the basement with props, models and sets from the film. During the Christmastown sequence, they pumped the smell of gingerbread in the air and at the end of the movie it snowed in the theater.

[@thomaskelly8580]

21:02 *Simone:* _"Having Danny Elfman as Jack is like the most perfect thing ever."_ 👑 I'm guessing you may already know this, but Danny only sings for Jack. His speaking voice is the delightful Prince Humperdink himself. . .Chris Sarandon.🤴

[@els1f]

"you know this whole song?!" It's only been in our heads and hearts for decades 🙃🤣

[@darthcarnage12]

Loved Simone mouthing and singing along!

[@absalomparker8804]

"Did Tim Burton give a bunch of Asian kids slanty eyes?" I mean...it IS Tim Burton*, I wouldn't put that level of racism past the man that thinks only whites can be goth. *Yes I'm aware he only produced the movie.

[@willcline5918]

Tim Burton seems to be a huge fan of the German Impressionism film art style

[@TheDaringPastry1313]

They still are dressing like Sally to this day for Halloween. 109,440 frames made up this movie. Another really good stop-motion film in the horror-like genre is Coraline. Definitely a must watch if you enjoyed this movie, it's also directed by Henry Selick

[@_Katzenberg]

1:03 also, in Beetlejuice, by the ending, when he crosses over, there's a Jack Skellington head on top of the carousel. Fun useless trivia.

[@Warlocke000]

I HIGHLY recommend the covers VoicePlay and Geoff Castelucci have done of songs from The Nightmare Before Christmas (or anything else they've done, really). Glenn Shadix, also from Beetlejuice (and Demolition Man), was the mayor. Chris Sarandon was Jack's speaking voice, in addition to Barrel (a trick or treater) and the clown with the tear-away face. Paul "Pee Wee Herman" Reubens was Lock, one of the trick or treaters. William Hickey (Uncle Lewis in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation) was Doctor Finkelstein.

[@tylerbenox18]

You should look for the album Nightmare Revisited. All the songs from this movie redone by popular rock artists when it came out in 2008. Also, VoicePlay does an awesome version of Oogie Boogie's song.

[@joshuacoldwater]

4:12 - So this is stop motion. Everything was done frame by frame in real life. It took them 3 years.

[@swanchamp5136]

There's another book/TV film were Death takes over for Santa when there's an assassination attempt on Santa's life called Hogfather, it was a book bt Terry Pratchett but was turned into a 2 part TV film that's quite campy and fun

[@anthonypennington5788]

I can honestly say I've never felt so close to Simone on a reaction haha nightmare before Christmas fans rejoice. Now some interesting things about nightmare before Christmas First when it was released it wasn't released under Disney as Disney thought it was too scary so they released it under tombstone pictures in 93 it wasn't until millennials who grew up with it in the 2000's and were trying to find anything related to it that Disney said yes that's our movie. Second oogie boogie was originally supposed to be doctor finklestein but due to tim Burton accidentally knocked a hole in one of the sets they changed it to him being a bag of bugs. Finally lock the devil kid was voiced by pee wee Herman and barrel the skeleton kid was voiced by Danny elfman.

[@Kevin.Costner.]

The Nightmare before 2 Weeks⏳👀

[@kn8354]

I was Sally for Halloween this year. My sister helped me go all out on the makeup. I was happy with how it turned out :)

[@dustywaynemusic6297]

I know George is a metalhead but I think he might dig Oingo Boingo, Danny Elfman's new wave band

[@veggiesarefruits]

Most people don't know that this movie was directed NOT by Tim Burton, but Henry Selick. He's the brains behind the incredible stop-motion, visuals, camera work...he also directed Coraline. He doesn't get the credit that he obviously deserves. ❤