A Nightmare Before Christmas: Sorry Christmas, It’s A Halloween Movie

Let’s face it, folks, as much as you want it to be a Christmas movie, A Nightmare Before Christmas is a Halloween movie. I get it, everyone loves Christmas and with good measure. The gifts, the music, the candy, and the lights what’s not to love. Unfortunately, despite it’s cherry disposition, the Disney film cannot be lumped into that category. Long live Halloween and Halloween.

I know the threat of stealing Christmas seems a little The Grinch Who Stole Christmas but let this masterpiece sit where it should with Halloween. The singing, the lights, and even an appearance by Santa Claus, or Sandy Claws, and Jack’s admiration for the holiday its easy to get confused thinking its about Christmas. Even has Christmas in the title, The Nightmare Before Christmas. It practically screams everyone’s favorite December holiday, but it’s not.

Let’s examine the facts, A Nightmare Before Christmas explores the world of Halloween Town trying to weasel in on the glitz and glamour of the Christmas season. Showing off how fun and exciting world of Christmas can be easily steers Christmas lovers to the movie being Christmas-y. But when the moral of the story kicks in, the movie clearly steers back to Halloween.

By the end of the film the characters realize that its better to be who you are and who they are, is characters from Halloween Town. With this discovery they realize that even though Christmas has all the fun, when they’re the happiest is when they’re being themselves, in Halloween Town, with their own holiday.

The best news is you can watch the movie for both holidays. You don’t even have to wait for either, you can watch it without it being a holiday at all. It can still be one of you favorite holiday films of all time. But it doesn’t change the fact, you’ll forever be watching one of the best Halloween films of your childhood.