I AM THE PUMPKIN KING
"The Nightmare Before Christmas" just might be the best family film every created, it follows the exploits of Jack Skellington, the pumpkin king of Halloween Town. He is bored with doing the same thing every year for Halloween and one day in the woods he stumbles upon a door that leads to Christmas Town. There he is so overwhelmed and bedazzled by the idea of Christmas that he tries to get the resident bats, ghouls, and goblins of Halloween Town to help him put on their very own Christmas instead of Halloween but alas, boil and boil toil and trouble ensues.

WHAT'S THIS?
"The Nightmare Before Christmas" was the first full-length stop motion animation film ever produced. To give you some idea why that might be - Santa Claus had more than 50 different moving parts, Sally had 10 different interchangeable faces each with 11 different expressions and Jack had more than 400 separate interchangeable heads each handcrafted with a different facial expression. If that weren't enough, at the height of production, it took the animators an entire week to produce only 70 seconds of film time. Yikes. Boo-nus: In an homage to the Charlie Brown comics and cartoons, no adult faces are shown in the film.

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

UNDERTAKING
Most people naturally assume that Tim Burton directed, "The Nightmare Before Christmas" but it was director Henry Selick that took the helm while Burton wrote and produced the massive undertaking. Selick then went on to direct the stop-motion animation film, "James and the Giant Peach". His next film, "Coraline" was written by fright-master, Neil Gaiman.

THIS IS HALLOWEEN
In the song, "This is Halloween", the lyrics.tender lumplings everywhere refers to the song titled, "Tender Lumplings" which was composed by Danny Elfman when he was with his band, Oingo Boingo.

IT'S SHOWTIME
Jack Skellington makes a tiny cameo appearance on top of Beetlejuice