John Lucas

I’m not going to promise that this is the last stop-motion animated video I will post, because I can virtually guarantee that it won’t be. But at least this one isn’t paying homage to Rankin/Bass Productions.

On the off chance that you’ve never seen The Nightmare Before Christmas, the premise of this scene is that Jack Skellington, the hero of Halloween Town, has rallied his ooky-spooky fellow citizens around the idea of taking over Christmas and remaking it in their style. Which is to say, ooky-spooky.

Henry Selick (James and the Giant Peach, Coraline) directed The Nightmare Before Christmas based on a poem by Tim Burton, who also co-produced. Frequent Burton collaborator Caroline Thompson (Edward Scissorhands, Corpse Bride) wrote the screenplay and Danny Elfman wrote the songs and composed the score because of course he did. Elfman also provided the singing voice of Jack.

No spoilers, but let’s just say that taking over Christmas doesn’t quite work out the way Jack hoped it would. The moral of the story is “stay in your lane”, I guess. Oh, and also “don’t kidnap people”. That’s a good one too.