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6 Reasons Why 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is a Halloween Movie (A.K.A. Arguments Impossible to Contradict)

"This is one of the most beloved stop-motion films of all time, but when the h*ck are we supposed to watch it?" OCTOBER, THAT'S WHEN.

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6 Reasons Why 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is a Halloween Movie (A.K.A. Arguments Impossible to Contradict)

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1. It was released in the U.S. on October 29th, 1993.

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Being released two days before Halloween...coincidence?

2. More Than 60% of the movie takes place in HALLOWEENTOWN.

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This an irrefutable fact: the majority of the movie is Halloween-based. The main character is the Pumpkin King, for Jack's Sake!!

3. The movie’s theme is Jack Skellington truly accepting his role as the leader of Halloweentown.

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No matter how you twist it, the final theme of the movie is "accepting responsibility" and "being happy with what you have," which in this case, is HALLOWEEN.

4. Halloween itself is the ‘Nightmare before Christmas.’

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Technically, Halloween is a nightmarish holiday that occurs before Christmas. It's all in the title, folks!

5. It’s genuinely scary.

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Disembodied heads, bugs, guts, torture chambers, weird textures that mirror the "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark", OOGIE BOOGIE -- need I continue?

6. THE DIRECTOR, HENRY SELICK, SAYS IT’S A HALLOWEEN MOVIE!

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This isn't a "gif" vs "jif" situation where everyone says it's pronounced one way and the creator says it's another -- this is the man who has been at the core of the story for the entirety of its creation and is possibly the best authority in existence.

Yeah, so it's a Halloween movie. You can watch it near Christmastime, but that'd be like watching Die Hard outside of the holiday season (that's a different discussion, though).

Watch what you like, when you like, but I'm gonna judge you a tiny bit.

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