The grotesque and appealing Nightmare Before Christmas

Tim Burton is a writer and director of many known films like Edward Scissorhands and Beetlejuice. Most of his films contain a creepy or scary theme with a touching moral. All characters have something off about them. The most common theme in characters is that they are living dead. In the Corpse Bride, in The Night Before Christmas, and in Beetlejuice and his newest Frankenweenie; all main characters share the property of being dead and rising, or appearing dead.

Tim Burton makes The Nightmare Before Christmas the same way. It derives from Halloween town where everyone lives to scare. So, of course everyone looks gross and creepy. It is not the appearance that we believe to be appealing; it is the emotion behind it. There are many characters in this movie who have the biggest heart and you see beyond the gross appearance.

An example is the Boogeyman; he looks like a giant pillow but is filled with nasty little bugs. Another example is Sally, she is a beautiful doll figure with a pure heart but she was made by a scientist and is held together with stitching. The creepy part of Sally is that she can remove limbs from her body and they move on their own.