Although most of the album's songs are not original ones from the film, one song is a medley of "Making Christmas", "What's This? Animated musical fantasy following Jack Skellington (voice of Chris Sarandon), the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town. Main articles: The Nightmare Before Christmas (soundtrack) and Nightmare Revisited Composer Danny Elfman.

Even with his good intentions, things start to go horribly wrong for Jack, and Christmas will be ruined unless he saves Santa from his kidnapper, the boisterous and over-the-top monster Oogie Boogie. Frustrated, Jack isolates himself in his house and studies Christmas further, intent upon finding a way to rationally explain it ("Jack's Obsession"). Though it is disappointing that the image is not enhanced for 16x9 televisions, the not-very-wide aspect ratio makes it easier to bear for those watching the film on a widescreen TV.

A one-night-only virtual benefit concert presentation of the film, presented by The Actors Fund and produced by James Monroe Iglehart with the cooperation of Burton, Elfman, Disney and Actors' Equity Association, streamed on October 31, 2020. On August 26, 2008, Disney re-issued Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas in a 3-disc Collector's Edition DVD. In October 2019, Chris Sarandon expressed interest on reprising his role as Jack Skellington if a sequel film ever materializes.

The El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, California, has been showing the film in 4-D screenings annually in October, ending on Halloween, since 2010. A collector's edition The Nightmare Before Christmas-themed Jenga game was issued with orange, purple and black blocks with Jack Skellington heads on them.When you purchase through links on our site we may earn a small commission, at no extra cost to you. In 2021, another version of Nightmare Before Christmas 13 Days of Christmas came out on July 6 and was soon followed by Little Golden Books's release of their adaptation of Nightmare Before Christmas on July 13, 2021. Is there any difference between the original release and the SE release, when it comes to the movie’s presentation? As Disney was unable to "offer his nocturnal loners enough scope", Burton was fired from the studio in 1984 [19] and went on to direct the commercially successful films Beetlejuice (1988) and Batman (1989) for Warner Bros.