12 Alternative Movies We're Sick Of Hearing Are Set At Christmas
10. The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Nightmare Before Christmas sits somewhere between Halloween movie, Christmas movie and cult classic. Personally I lead towards characterising it as a Halloween film because I feel it works better in this context: at Halloween, when everyone is invested in ghosts, ghouls and things that go bump in the night, it's the story of some cute monsters trying to do Christmas and getting it hilariously wrong. At Christmas, when everyone's feeling festive it's more like the story of the Grinch except with misplaced enthusiasm as a motivation instead of greed. Since there's a limit to the number of times you can watch the same basic plot in one holiday, I recommend keeping The Grinch (the original animated one for preference) for Christmas and saving the skeletons for Halloween.
Kate Taylor has a BA in English Literature and Creative Writing and an MRes in Creative Writing. Her nonfiction, reviews and other articles have appeared on Cuckoo Review and Mookychick as well as WhatCulture. Her fiction has been published in Luna Station Quarterly, Eternal Haunted Summer and in anthologies by Paizo and Northumbria University Press. She is 23 and lives in the North of England.
