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    Nightmare Before Christmas, The (1993)

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    After another successful celebration in Halloween Town – which is populated by vampires, ghouls, fiends, mad scientists and other strange creatures – the disenchanted Pumpkin King, Jack Skellington (voiced by Chris Sarandon with singing voice provided by Danny Elfman) discovers the existence of Christmas Town.

    He organises his fellow ghouls and monsters to create this year’s Christmas holiday and give “Sandy Claws” (Edward Ivory) a break. Jack doesn’t fully grasp the concept of Christmas, though, but will not listen to the warnings of Sally (Catherine O’Hara), a revived corpse created by Dr Finklestein (William Hickey).

    Sally can’t tell Jack that she loves him, mainly because she’s too busy trying to poison Finklestein and keep her various body parts sewn together.

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    Demonic trick or treaters Lock, Shock and Barrel kidnap Old Saint Nick so Jack can deliver the Christmas gifts instead. Sadly, Jack doesn’t comprehend that his gift-wrapped shrunken heads and voracious serpents don’t make good yuletide gifts.

    Both Santa and Sally are eventually delivered into the clutches of Oogie Boogie (Ken Page), a ghostly bad guy who intends to do away with them both.

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    Jack Skellington
    Chris SarandonΒ (voice)
    Danny Elfman (singing voice)
    Sally
    Catherine O’Hara
    Dr. Finklestein
    William Hickey
    Lock
    Paul Reubens
    Shock
    Catherine O’Hara
    Barrel
    Danny Elfman
    Oogie Boogie
    Ken Page
    Santa
    Edward Ivory
    Mayor
    Glenn Shadix
    Big Witch/WWD
    Susan McBride
    Corpse Kid/Corpse Mom/Small Witch
    Debi Durst
    Harlequin Demon/Devil/Sax Player
    Greg Proops
    Vampire/Corpse Dad
    Kerry Katz
    MrΒ Hyde/Behemoth
    Randy Crenshaw
    Mummy/Vampire
    Sherwood Ball
    Undersea Gal
    Carmen Twillie
    Wolfman
    Glenn Walters

    Director
    Tim Burton

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