Uploaded January 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

---

(Henry Selick, US 1993, 76 min.)

Based on a three-page poem written by Tim Burton in the early 1980s, this paean to the stop-motion holiday specials of the '60s and '70s features a crossover between Christmas and Halloween, as the Pumpkin King, Jack Skellington, drops into Christmas Town, ultimately abducting Santa Claus in an effort to garner the love of all the girls and boys.

This video has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: NEH CARES.

Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this video, do not necessarily represent those of the NEH.