The Nightmare Before Christmas (PG)

★★★★ "A stop-motion animation classic which, it turns out, that it's not only in Tim Burton's mind that Santa being tortured on a rack and a severed head left in a children's Christmas stocking, are essential scenes for festive family viewing." ~ Manchester Theatres.

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Can Christmas be saved?

In Tim Burton's classic 1993 movie, bored with the same old scare-and-scream routine, Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, longs to spread the joy of Christmas. But his merry mission puts Santa in jeopardy and creates a nightmare for good little boys and girls everywhere!

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★★★★ From an original fairy tale poem and the fertile and febrile imagination of Tim Burton comes a wickedly dark and decidedly alternative look at every child's favourite day of the year. ~ BBC

★★★★★ Only the deliciously demented imagination of director Tim Burton could have come up with such a dark vision of the holiday season. Its affectionate trashing of Christmas traditions is conceptually cunning and clever enough to please every generation, making it an unmissable treat that's destined to become as great a yuletide favourite as The Wizard of Oz. ~ Radio Times.

★★★★✭ "A subversive 'family classic' that should amaze all ages, if for different reasons." ~ AllMovie.