"Boys and girls of every age, wouldn't you like to see something strange?"

The opening lines of "The Nightmare Before Christmas" are simple, beckoning its audience as a grinning carnival barker might entreat passers-by to enter the big tent and see the grand show. Here thar be monsters, but that's part of the fun in Henry Selick's stop-motion multi-holiday classic.

The movie is a Frankenstein's creation conjured by Tim Burton, put to page by screenwriter Caroline Thompson, directed by Selick,...

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