Let’s settle this once and for all.
Every year, it seems that Halloween creeps in earlier than before, and with it, its Pumpkin King, Jack Skellington.
Take the Haunted Mansion Holiday at Disneyland; it’s a haunted house with ghosts that, as soon as Halloweentime arrives at the Disneyland resort at the end of summer, becomes inhabited by Jack and the people of Halloweentown. However, they’re not there for Halloween; they’re there to make Christmas. There’s the rub, because the once cult and now very mainstream holiday staple from the mind of Tim Burton and director Henry Selick is about one holiday taking over another.
So with Halloween about to make way for the Christmas season at the end of this week, io9 looks at both sides of the great debate. There are arguments both ways, but let’s settle this once and for all. Is The Nightmare Before Christmas a Halloween movie? Or should you file it under Christmas instead?It starts at the end of Halloween night
The intro to the film is, yes, a rousing anthem from the film’s composer, Danny Elfman, about Halloween and the town that makes it happen every year. We get introduced to Jack as being the main scarer and patron of the holiday as the people of Halloweentown essentially throw an after-party. Halloween may be over for the year, but it’s what powers the entire population of this place. (Verdict: one point in favor of Nightmare being a Halloween movie.)Jack is literally done with Halloween
So done that he walks out of the land itself and into the woods where all the other holiday doors are.
