The Nightmare Before Christmas

I'm the king of the pumpkin

"The Nightmare Before Christmas" could be created only the best family film follows the exploits of Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town. He is doing the same thing every year for Halloween and one day in the woods who stumble on a door that leads to Christmas Town bored. Because he is so overwhelmed and blinded by the idea of Christmas that he tries to get the resident bats, vampires and dwarvesHalloween Town to help you to put your Christmas instead of Halloween, but unfortunately the boil and cook for the effort and work.

What is it?

"The Nightmare Before Christmas" is the first full-length stop motion animated film has ever done. To give you an idea, what could be - Santa Claus has had more than 50 different moving parts, Sally had 10 different interchangeable faces, each with 11 different expressions, and Jack had more than 400 interchangeable heads, each separatedHand with a different expression. If this were not enough, at the height of production, the animators took a week to produce only 70 seconds of film. Yikes.
Boo-nus: filming a tribute to Charlie Brown comic strips and cartoons, the faces are adults in the film.

BEHEMOTH

The character was modeled after Behemoth B-movie actor and Swedish wrestler Tor Johnson. Tor Johnson has worked with Ed Wood Jr. and was in the movie "Ed Wood", which was showndirected by Tim Burton.

COMPANY

Most people assume, of course, the fact that Tim Burton directed "The Nightmare Before Christmas," but was directed by Henry Selick, who took the helm, while Burton wrote and produced the massive commitment. Selick went to the stop-motion animated film, directed, "James and the Giant Peach." His next film, "Coraline" was written by horror maestro Neil Gaiman.

This is Halloween

In the song, "This is Halloween", thelumplings lyrics.tender found anywhere in the song entitled "Tender Lumplings" composed by Danny Elfman, when he was with his band Oingo Boingo.

It's Show Time

Jack Skellington makes a small cameo appearance in Beetlejuiceís hat tournament held at the end of the movie "Beetle Juice". The Serpent and the film is also the same Saturn Sandworm in Beetle Juice.
Boo-nus: significantly distorted to create the appearance of Halloween, the artists often sketchedtheir designs with your hand-drawing.

SEASON CRUNCH

Tim Burton said he was inspired by the poem of the film when he saw a Halloween display merchandise is removed and replaced by writing a Christmas-based setup. The juxtaposition of the dark skeletons, ghosts and goblins with the bright cheerful Santa and his reindeer mixed caught his imagination and set the wheels in motion.

Stop Motion Commotion

stop-motion animation is a difficultBusiness plagued the production of two elements, light, or else break up could be a puppet of the production is to break emergency braking. So the film crew has invented a "light alarm" which would warn the animators if the lights do not come to the stadium, and has developed a system, a puppeteer, without going to a replacement puppet if a broken puppet on during registration.

SPIDER WEB sticky

Be careful, as it is, it's no surprise that a little 'laterThings may change. The continuity between shots is always a nuisance for any film and this is no different. A clearer you can see if Jack Lock, Stock and Barrel shows the cookie Christmas tree. At first, the glass part of the cookie is against them before, but in the next shot was reversed, and the enamel side away from them. Yeesha, oh, the humanity.

Jack of All Trades

Actor Chris Sarandon, provided the voice of Jack Skellington talking, but DannyElfman, film composer and long time employees with Tim Burton, delivered the singing voice of Jack. Elfman has also voiced the character drum and the Clown with the Tearaway Face.
Boo-nus: in the movie is Santa's "Naughty or Nice" list of two thin layers of paper with a thin layer of aluminum sandwiched between them. This kept the paper from the list to move between shots. After all, it takes 24 shots (frames) for a single second
the film.Aye-yi-yi!

COLLABORATION NATION

Catherine O'Hara, who was also in Burton's "Beetlejuice" was to vote for the jackis friend Sally, and for the character, shock. Paul Reubens, aka Pee-Wee Herman, provided the voice for the character of the block. Tim Burton's Pee-Wee Herman, both films on the big screen.

TidBits

When the film was first released had a marketing campaign by Burger King. Together, Burger King used the Pumpkin Kinga collection of digital watches in honor of the film. I still have my best was in the original packaging. I have it at Burger King in front of the theater where I saw the film in Santa Fe, New Mexico. E 'was opening weekend and there were two celebrities in the theater that night. Actress Samantha Mathis and her boyfriend at the time, River Phoenix. E 'was great to see that they loved the film as each other that night. Unfortunately for all, River Phoenix died a few days afterin Los Angeles of heart failure induced by drugs. This Halloween marks the 10th anniversary of his
Distribution. RIP, River Phoenix.