Hello, fellow movie fans.

I'm Lily Percy, and I'll be your guide this week as I talk to writer Ashley C. Ford about the movie that changed her life, the nightmare before Christmas.

If you've seen the movie, awesome, you know what to expect.

But if you haven't, don't worry.

I'm going to give you all of the details that you need to be part of this conversation.

Yeah. of this conversation. One of the things that's amazing about Tim Burton and the films that he makes is how he

walks the line between darkness and light.

And he does this so beautifully and The Nightmare Before Christmas.

It's a movie that is about a character, Jack Skellington,

who is the king of Halloween Town.

He's an expert at making all things Halloween happen,

everything gross and creepy and scary.

But he's bored.

With the slightest little effort of my ghost-like charms, I have seen grown men give out a

shriek.

With the wave of my hand in a well-placed mow, I have swept the very bravest off their feet.

Yet year after year, it's the same routine, and I grow so weary of the sound of screams,

and I, Jack, the Pumpkin King, have grown so tired of the same old thing.

And he decides that he wants to take on a new challenge, and that comes in the form of Christmas.

And I think what's amazing about the movie is that somehow it turns Christmas into Halloween and Halloween into Christmas. And I think what's amazing about the movie is that somehow it turns Christmas into

Halloween and Halloween into Christmas. You're welcome, one and old. Where'd you spot it? Fast as we

can, ma'am. Police, I know, I know a skeleton. Keep calm. Turn off all the lights. Make sure the

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