The Nightmare Before Christmas

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2021

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

Paul & Amy kidnap 1993's Gothic stop-motion musical The Nightmare Before Christmas! They praise the carnival-esque compositions of Danny Elfman, compare Oogie Boogie's big musical number to the Max Fleischer cartoon it was inspired by, and dig into the thorny question of who this film's true auteur is, Tim Burton or Henry Selick. Plus: Why did the studio want Jack Skellington to have eyes? Next week Unspooled continues our series on musicals with Grease! You can join the conversation for this series on the Unspooled Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/unspooledpodcast, and on Paul’s Discord at https://discord.gg/ZwtygZGTa6. Learn more about the show at unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. You can also listen to our Stitcher Premium game show Screen Test right now at https://www.stitcher.com/show/unspooled-screen-test, and apply to be a contestant at [email protected]!

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0:00.0	Here is 1993.
0:01.6	And what's this? What's this?
0:03.2	A podcast on a film.
0:04.5	The movie. The movie is a night member for Christmas.
0:07.6	Hello everyone and welcome to unspooled.
0:30.8	I'm Amy Nicholson.
0:31.9	And I'm Paul Sheer and this is the podcast where we are trying to find the 100 best movies
0:36.2	of all time.
0:37.6	And when we do, we are sending them to outer space.
0:42.0	That's right.
0:43.0	It's going up into space for what reason we don't know.
0:47.4	But Amy, we're in a brand new mini series all about great musicals.
0:53.7	And I'm so excited to talk to you about musicals.
0:56.8	It's not necessarily my favorite type of film.
1:01.0	Really?
1:02.0	Yeah.
1:03.0	When you're just, you're going to throw that gauntlet down right now.
1:05.3	Yeah, I would.
1:06.3	A minute into this episode.
1:07.3	Gauntlet down.
1:08.3	Yeah, I'm not against musicals.
1:10.9	It's just not something that I am drawn to.
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