18 Directors Who Sneaked In References To Their Own Movies
10. Henry Selick – Jack Skellington, Pirates And Omelettes
Director and stop-motion expert Henry Selick made his feature length debut in 1993 with the Tim Burton produced animated fantasy The Nightmare Before Christmas and he’s played homage to its protagonist Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, ever since.
In Selick’s 1996 adaptation of Roald Dahl’s book James and the Giant Peach, Jack Skellington makes a cameo as a pirate captain of a sunken ghost ship and he popped up again over a decade later in his critically acclaimed 2009 animation Coraline, based on Neil Gaiman’s novel of the same name.
Look closely in the scene where Coraline’s Other Mother is making her an omelette and you’ll see the faint, yet unmistakable outline of Jack Skellington’s skull in place of the yolk.