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Nov
Sixteen years ago, The Nightmare Before Christmas by gothic visionary Tim Burton and the immensely talented animation master Henry Selick was the first ever full length stop-motion animation movie. The film tells the strange story about a little world known as Halloween town. Jack Skellington aka the Pumpkin King, lives there solely to organize the yearly ritual of Halloween, in which his gang of goblins and goblins terrorize the world. Over the years, Jack became a bit disillusioned in his repetitive job, and longs to take over the job of Santa Clause. The result is a work full of clever gags, funny songs, genuine pathos and of course grand visual wit.
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