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courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme · 23 days

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The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993, Henry Selick)

03/04/2024

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clemsfilmdiary · 1 year

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Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990, John Harrison)

12/4/22

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brokehorrorfan · 2 years

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Super 7 has released its second wave of The Nightmare Before Christmas ReAction Figures. Priced at $20, each 3.75”-scale retro-style toy has five points of articulation.

This batch includes Pumpkin King Jack (with torch), Oogie Boogie (with bug), Lock (with devil mask), Wolfman (with bone), Dr. Finkelstein (with wheelchair and skull), and Undersea Gal.

The first wave - featuring Jack Skellington, Sally, Mayor, Witch, Harlequin Demon, and Vampire - is still available.

#nightmare before christmas #tim burtn #disney #jack skellington #the nightmare before christmas #paul rubens #henry selick #oogie boogie #pumpkin king #jack and sally #super 7 #toy #gift #reaction figures #william hickey

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duranduratulsa · 2 months

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Now showing on DuranDuranTulsa's Horror Show...Tales From The Darkside: The Movie (1990) on glorious vintage VHS 📼! #movie #movies #horror #TalesFromTheDarkside #TalesFromTheDarksideTheMovie #georgeromero #arthurconandoyle #stephenking #ripgeorgeromero #deborahharry #christianslater #JulianneMoore #stevebuscemi #williamhickey #ripwilliamhickey #MatthewLawrence #RaeDawnChong #jamesremar #RobertKlein #MichaelMassee #davidjohansen #MarkMargolis #RIPMarkMargolis #alicedrummond #ralphmarrero #vintage #vhs #90s #durandurantulsa #durandurantulsashorrorshow

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machetelanding · 2 years

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#tales from the darkside #horror #movies #1990 #1990s #debbie harry #christian slater #david johansen #william hickey #james remar #rae dawn chong #george romero #movie posters

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horrororman · 10 months

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Remembering William Hickey (September 19, 1927 - June 29, 1997).🕯

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erstwhile-punk-guerito · 4 months

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#The Nightmare Before Christmas #Danny Elfman #Chris Sarandon #Catherine O'Hara #William Hickey #Glenn Shadix #Paul Reubens #Ken Page #Ed Ivory #Henry Selick #1993

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man-kills-everything · 1 year

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To woo a lovely femme, a wealthy codger trades bods with a hunk. But there's a switch to The Switch

Tales From The Crypt: The Switch (1990) Season Two Episode Two Dir: Arnold Schwarzenegger

#Arnold Schwarzenegger #Tales From The Crypt #The Switch #1990 #HBO #HBO's Tales From The Crypt #Tales From The Crypt Season 2 #Tales From The Crypt Season Two #TFTC #The Cryptkeeper #Cryptkeeper #Crypt Keeper #William Hickey #Kelly Preston #Rick Rossovich #Mark Pellegrino #Ian Abercrombie #Roy Brocksmith #TFTC The Switch

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anhed-nia · 1 year

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BLOGTOBER 10/29/2022: THE SENTINEL (1977)

First of all, there should be some kind of law that says you can't have Burgess Meredith and William Hickey in the same movie. It could be for the same reason they're not allowed to sell eggnogg year round; it's just too much of something.

Now, with that out of the way: Michael Winner's THE SENTINEL is a pretty good movie full of pretty great people—even its cast of extras is surprisingly star-studded—but with a bummer finale that makes a lot of sense if you're aware of the filmmaker's reputation for being an asshole. Venerated horror scholar Robin Wood called the movie "the worst—most offensive and repressive—horror film of the 70s," which, if you're me, means you absolutely have to see it. Also if you're me, you might wonder what all the hyperbole is about until the very end.

Arriving in 1977 and clearly wishing to join the dwindling party started by ROSEMARY'S BABY, THE EXORCIST, and THE OMEN, THE SENTINEL concerns a young model who will suffer a bizarre punishment for wanting a little more independence. Allison (Cristina Raines) is leery of moving in with her morally ambiguous lawyer boyfriend Michael (Chris Sarandon), as she still feels icky about the recent, convenient death of Michael's wife. That's not the only thing bugging Allison, though; she was recently released from a mental institution, and is haunted by the ghost (figuratively and perhaps even literally) of her debaucherous father. She figures she just needs a little time and space in which to learn to stand on her own two feet again, and she finds the worst place to do it in a handsome Brooklyn brownstone populated by devilish oddballs (including Burgess Meredith, Sylvia Miles, John Carradine, and…there's just more familiar faces in this movie than I have the energy to name). When Allison realizes she's not going to get the peace of mind she hoped for, she complains to her broker (Ava Gardner), only to learn that she is supposedly alone in the building, and that her struggle with insanity may not be over. Either that, or she's being embroiled in a battle between good and evil that it will take a lot of convoluted investigation to sort out.

THE SENTINEL has a lot of moving parts; co-writer Jeffrey Konvitz adapted his own novel for the screen, and it's easy to imagine that this frenetic narrative may hold together better within the more generous bounds of a book. However, despite all the overly involved infernal intrigue, the film is pretty watchable just due to its collection of kooky performances and its amusingly sleazy set pieces. It's basically all fun and games up to the end, when Michael Winner makes a choice that is hard to sit with by casting real people with extreme disabilities and deformities as demons from hell.

This notorious Boschian finale is admittedly frightening and effective, but as soon as you realize that not much of what you see is a special effect, your experience changes. Personally, it takes me out of the movie, and sends me spiraling into the vortex of debating whether exploitative freak shows should be banned outright, or whether people with unusual or pathological appearances should be allowed to capitalize on their situation however they see fit. This is pretty far outside the realm of the campy romp I thought I was in for, and to call it "insensitive" feels like a comical understatement. I don't know what Michael Winner was thinking when he decided to do this, but for someone with his reputation for being cruel, intolerant, and abusive, hearing his perspective probably wouldn't be overly eye-opening.

What's the moral of the story of this movie? I'm not entirely sure, but it has certainly earned its place in horror history as an item that we probably won't stop talking about any time soon. It is definitely something to see, and fun while the fun lasts, but be prepared to do a lot of soul-searching after the credits roll.

PS Just to sort of counterbalance the effect of talking about this much-discussed movie, I want to point out a film starring people with unusual appearances that attempts to deliver a more positive, albeit even more challenging message: 2018's HAPPY FACE, in which an attractive teenage boy secretly infiltrates a support group for people with severe deformities, as a way of gaining a better understanding his mother, who has been disfigured by cancer. Because of its sincerity and realism, HAPPY FACE can be much harder to take than THE SENTINEL, but I dunno, maybe everyone should have to see it:

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screamscenepodcast · 1 year

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It's a Tim Burton Christmas with 1993's THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, directed by Henry Selick!

Your hosts cover the life and times of Danny Elfman, the making of NIGHTMARE and even dig into what death of the author actually means.

Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 50:01; Discussion 56:32

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courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme · 4 months

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The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993, Henry Selick)

11/01/2024

The Nightmare Before Christmas is a 1993 animated film directed by Henry Selick, created and co-produced by Tim Burton, on behalf of Touchstone Pictures (owned by The Walt Disney Company) and Skellington Pictures, and distributed by Buena Vista International.

The film originates from a story in the form of a poem written by Burton in 1982, while working as an animator at Walt Disney Productions. With Vincent's success in the same year, he began to consider developing The Nightmare Before Christmas as a short film or television special, but to no avail. Disney initially released the film through Touchstone Pictures because they deemed the film too dark and scary for children.

Written by Caroline Thompson, the plot features Jack Skellington, pumpkin king of Halloween Town, who decides to turn his life around to understand what Christmas is. The voice cast consists of Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara, Ken Page and William Hickey.

The film was a critical success upon its release, earning praise for its animation (particularly the innovation of the stop-motion art form), characters, songs, and soundtrack. Although it was initially a modest success at the box office, over time it became a cult film. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Special Effects, a first for an animated film, but lost to Jurassic Park. The film has since been reissued by Walt Disney Pictures and re-released annually in Disney Digital 3-D from 2006 to 2009, making it the first stop-motion animated film entirely converted to 3D.

Halloween Town is a world in which all the monsters of the holiday live, governed by Jack Skellington, the pumpkin king.

As dawn breaks, Jack finds himself in an open space surrounded by seven trees with doors engraved on the trunk, each representing a different symbol of the holidays (Halloween, Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, Independence Day, Valentine's Day and St. Patrick's Day).

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twenty-words-or-less · 1 year

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The Nightmare Before Christmas

Summary: King of Halloweentown Jack Skellington (Chris Sarandon), having grown bored of his responsibilities, decides to take charge of Christmas. Chaos ensues.

A stunning, tight lesson on cultural appropriation, with memorable songs. Holds up after 30yrs. Love story comes from nowhere, though.

Rating: 4.25/5

Photo credit: Rotten Tomatoes

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adamwatchesmovies · 1 year

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The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

For multiple reasons, The Nightmare Before Christmas has become a holiday staple: the bold visuals, memorable soundtrack & songs, art direction, inventive plot… there’s no wrong reason to call it a favourite. You’ll be tempted to pop it into your player on Halloween. You'll be tempted to watch it again on Christmas. I say, why not both?

Jack Skellington (voiced by Chris Sarandon) is the king of Halloween Town but he's grown bored with his crown. When Jack discovers Christmas, he and his demented cohorts decide to bring their own version of the holiday to the world.

Brought to life through state-of-the art stop-motion animation, you only need to see one frame of this film for it to be stamped in your mind forever. The shadows of Halloween Town evoke the horror films of the German impressions era and the stop-motion makes you think of Rankin and Bass’ Christmas stories but nothing we’ve seen before or since looks quite like this. The jagged edges of the architecture, the crooked postures of the witches, the vampires’ bulbous eyes, the ghosts, the pumpkins... every citizen of Halloween Town has emerged from the mind of someone who was thinking completely out of the box. Every year, I hear renewed rumours of Disney wanting to make a live-action adaptation - quite ironic considering the studio didn’t think the film would fit their brand in 1993 (early prints/releases were done through Touchstone Pictures). Whoever thinks a remake is a good idea should get their head examined. It doesn’t matter how many snapshots of fans in Skellington makeup we see, no one could move the way the Pumpkin King does - even with the aid of motion-capture effects. No one could sing the songs the way Danny Elfman does. No one could match Ken Page as Oogie Boogie. Every attempt to replicate Dr. Finkelstein's laboratory, the curved peaks of Halloweentown or the cheerful elves of Christmas Town would be just that: a replication. This is a movie that proves certain things are only achievable through animation.

The incredible soundtrack by Elfman (yes, he does double-duty) guarantees you’ll want to watch the film over and over. From the first number, you’re hooked. Whenever a song ends, you kind of wish it would go on longer. It feels as though you’ve just finally memorized all the words in the refrain and were getting ready to chime in. No worries. At a brief 76 minutes, you can squeeze many viewings into one evening. In fact, if there’s any criticism to give this movie, it’s that it could’ve been longer. Some elements of the conclusion feel a tad rushed (particularly the romance with Catherine O'Hara's Sally) even though the story’s final note is just about perfect.

Whether it’s for the songs, art direction & visuals, characters, premise or a combination, you’ll feel compelled to reach for The Nightmare Before Christmas over and over again. Multiple viewings allow you to fully appreciate the quality of the melodies and rhymes featured in the hit-after-hit numbers. Once you're over the initial shock of the ghoulish characters that strangely feel right at home next to Christmas critters, you're able to spot all of the intricate details in the tiny sets and models brought to life by the talented animators.

Though often attribute to Tim Burton, The Nightmare Before Christmas was actually directed by Henry Sellick (the story was inspired by his ideas but he was busy working on Batman Returns while Nightmare was being assembled). This film is a little twisted and a little scary. It’s also enchanting and warm. The hype around it is well-earned. (On Blu-ray, December 22, 2019)

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duranduratulsa · 4 months

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Up next on my Christmas 🎄 movie 🎥 marathon...National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) on classic DVD 📀! #movie #movies #comedy #christmas #johnhughes #christmasvacation #nationallampoonchristmasvacation #ChevyChase #beverlydangelo #randyquaid #juliettelewis #johnnygalecki #JuliaLouisDreyfus #ellenhamilton #briandoylemurray #DorisRoberts #DianeLadd #maequestal #ripmaequestal #RIPDorisRoberts #johnrandolph #SamMcMurray #williamhickey #ripwilliamhickey #egmarshall #ripegmarshall #dougllewelyn #dvd #80s #merrychristmas #merrychristmas2023

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streamondemand · 1 year

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Tim Burton's 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' on Disney+

Tim Burton’s ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’ on Disney+

The playfully macabre humor of Tim Burton is deftly brought to life through the old-school magic of stop-motion animation by director Henry Selick in The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993). Jack Skellington (voiced by Chris Sarandon) is the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, a childlike ghoul who is growing bored of providing frights to kids once a year. Then he stumbles upon the joy of Christmas…

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#1993 #Blu-ray #Caroline Thompson #Catherine O&039;Hara #Chris Sarandon #Danny Elfman #Disney+#DVD #Glenn Shadix #Henry Selick #Paul Reubens #The Nightmare Before Christmas #Tim Burton #VOD #William Hickey

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horrororman · 7 months

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Remembering William Hickey (September 19, 1927 - June 29, 1997).🕯

#horror #comedy #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction

#horror #horror movies #horror movie #scifi #science fiction #thriller #comedy #william hickey

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