The first time I saw Tim Burton’s “The Nightmare before Christmas” 14 years ago, I was so amazed! In the 90’s everyone was expecting fantasy films to be done in a cartoon style or represented by real actors. Tim Burton took the film world to another level with using stop animation to bring his fantastical spooky world to life through Claymation.

The story is about a bored skeleton, Jack Skellington, who rules a magical themed land called Halloweentown. He stumbles upon a magic portal that gains him access to Christmastown, which for once, excites him. Being the ruler that he is, he decides to take over Santa’s job and convert the Halloweentownians into Christmas lovers. His shy love interest Sally knows this idea is trouble from the start and attempts to save him before things get out-of-hand. Through various musical sequences the characters display their dreams, fears and down right hilarious opinons of the world around them.

They have re-released this film in theatres but added the wonderful feature of making it in 3D. I have not had the chance to see it yet but I heard it was amazing. Another thing that’s great is you could get items like the Nightmare Before Christmas Door Wreath and the Nightmare Before Christmas Door Mat and use them for Halloween AND Christmas. The versitality of these objects is great for lazy people like me!