Join Amazon Prime and get unlimited Free First Class Delivery. Already a member? Sign in.

 

or
Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering.
 
   
More Buying Choices
10 used & new from £5.44
Have one to sell? Sell yours here
 
   
The Nightmare Before Christmas (2 Disc Collector's Edition) [DVD] [1993]
 
See larger image 
Share your own customer images

The Nightmare Before Christmas (2 Disc Collector's Edition) [DVD] [1993]

DVD ~ Danny Elfman
3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
RRP: £17.99
Price: £6.98 & this item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions
You Save: £11.01 (61%)
o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
In stock.
Items for dispatch to UK will be sold by Amazon's Preferred Merchant. (Why?) Gift-wrap available.

6 new from £6.98 4 used from £5.44
Learn about Lovefilm
Amazon's choice for DVD rental.
With a 14 day FREE trial. Learn more

Frequently Bought Together

The Nightmare Before Christmas (2 Disc Collector's Edition) [DVD] [1993] + Tim Burton's Corpse Bride [DVD] [2005] + Edward Scissorhands [1991] [DVD]
Total RRP: £46.97
Price For All Three: £17.24

Show availability and shipping details

What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?

The Nightmare Before Christmas (2 Disc Collector's Edition) [DVD] [1993]
66% buy the item featured on this page:
The Nightmare Before Christmas (2 Disc Collector's Edition) [DVD] [1993] 3.8 out of 5 stars (6)
£6.98
The Nightmare Before Christmas (Special Edition) [1994] [DVD]
23% buy
The Nightmare Before Christmas (Special Edition) [1994] [DVD] 4.7 out of 5 stars (75)
£4.98
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride [DVD] [2005]
7% buy
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride [DVD] [2005] 4.4 out of 5 stars (56)
£5.98
Edward Scissorhands [1991] [DVD]
3% buy
Edward Scissorhands [1991] [DVD] 4.8 out of 5 stars (71)
£4.28
Explore similar items

Product details

  • Actors: Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara, William Hickey, Glenn Shadix
  • Directors: Tim Burton
  • Format: PAL
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm
  • DVD Release Date: 6 Oct 2008
  • Run Time: 73 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B001CZ5MRI
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 11,308 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

    •  Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

Reviews

Synopsis
Tim Burton's stop-motion animated feature finds Pumpkin King Jack Skellington thinking the grass is greener over in Santa Claus's holiday. He marshals all his goblins and ghouls to take over Christmas, but alas--poor Jack belongs to Halloween. An amazing visual and musical feast that should be seen at least twice to catch all the kinks and quirks in the nooks and crannies. Now digitally restored and remastered with state of-the-art technology, The Nightmare Before Christmas is deeper, darker and more brilliant than ever--just as Tim Burton originally envisioned it.

DVD Bonus Features
"Nightmare" haunted mansion tour
Tim Burton's original poem
New commentary
Plus the original special edition bonus features.

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

Tim Burton's Corpse Bride [DVD] [2005]

Tim Burton's Corpse Bride [DVD] [2005]

DVD ~ Johnny Depp
4.4 out of 5 stars (56)  £5.98
The Dark Knight (2 Discs) [DVD] [2008]

The Dark Knight (2 Discs) [DVD] [2008]

DVD ~ Christian Bale
4.1 out of 5 stars (242)  £5.98
WALL-E (2 Disc Special Edition) [DVD] [2008]

WALL-E (2 Disc Special Edition) [DVD] [2008]

DVD ~ Ben Burtt
4.1 out of 5 stars (98)  £14.98
Edward Scissorhands [1991] [DVD]

Edward Scissorhands [1991] [DVD]

DVD ~ Johnny Depp
4.8 out of 5 stars (71)  £4.28
Hellboy 2: The Golden Army (2 Disc Special Edition) [DVD] [2008]

Hellboy 2: The Golden Army (2 Disc Special Edition) [DVD] [2008]

DVD ~ Ron Perlman
4.0 out of 5 stars (52)  £9.98
› Explore similar items

Tags Customers Associate with This Product

 (What's this?)
Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
Check the boxes next to the tags you consider relevant or enter your own tags in the field below
(4)
(3)
(2)
(1)

Your tags: Add your first tag
 
See most popular tags
 

Customer Reviews

6 Reviews
5 star:
 (2)
4 star:
 (3)
3 star:    (0)
2 star:    (0)
1 star:
 (1)
 
 
 
 
 
Average Customer Review
3.8 out of 5 stars (6 customer reviews)
 
 
 
 
Share your thoughts with other customers:
Most Helpful Customer Reviews

 
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars great film but one silly problem, 6 Nov 2008
By C. Thorpe (brighton, england) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   
This new edition of the Nightmare Before Christmas is great, better picture quality and great special features. However, if you already own the previous DVD version, the making of documentary is exactly the same. Just a little thing but great dvd!!
Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)



 
6 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars This year, Halloween is ours, 4 Aug 2008
By E. A Solinas "ea_solinas" (MD USA) - See all my reviews
(TOP 10 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)   
Only Tim Burton could produce a holiday musical about Halloween's grotesqueries taking over Christmas.

And in fact he did. Burton wrote and produced a charming stop-motion musical called "The Nightmare Before Christmas," which is as close as we'll ever get to a Burton Christmas film. And there's rarely a dull moment in this town called Halloween -- from start to finish, it's a quirky, macabre, vintage-flavoured ride through the darker side of everybody's favorite holidays.

In Halloween Town, the undead Jack Skellington is king, and each Halloween the residents try to make their celebration even more horrible than the year before.

But this year, something is missing for Jack, and he starts wondering if scaring people is all his life has. He ends up wandering into a sort of holiday junction, and finds a portal to Christmas Town -- it's full of snow, lights, presents and innocent fun. Jack is instantly enamoured of Christmas, and decides that for this year, the residents of Halloween Town are going to celebrate Christmas.

He manages to convince the other Halloween residents -- except the sweet rag-doll Sally -- to go along with his plan. So Halloween Town is redecorated and filled with presents (in a suitably ghastly style) and "Sandy Claws" is abducted so Jack can take his place. But are the people of Halloween Town just not suited to innocent merriment, and can the Pumpkin King fill the capacious red suit when Christmas Eve rolls around?

The idea of Halloween ghouls and spooks deciding to take over Christmas sounds terribly twee in concept, like a gimmicky children's book. Fortunately Tim Burton's darkly humorous sense of humor and delightfully gothic designs -- as well as Henry Selick's brilliant direction -- end up turning the movie into something that is more than just another kid's movie. Think a Burtonesque "Princess Bride."

Much of its charm comes from the richness of Burton's visuals -- his Halloween Town is saturated in spiky iron fences, ghost dogs, insects, mad scientists, and a spooky cloudy night that never ends. And though the inhabitants of Halloween Town are devoted to being grotesque and spooky, there's a lighthearted benevolence in their actions at all times. It almost makes Christmas Town look... dull.

But it's also an incredibly funny, sweet little movie, with plenty of heart. There's an adorable little love story between Jack and Sally ("My dearest friend, if you don't mind..."), despite Jack's total cluelessness. And Burton weaves in lots of solid musical numbers ("There's children throwing snowballs/instead of throwing heads/they're busy building toys/and absolutely no one's dead!").

But the crown jewel is Burton's macabre sense of humor. Hardly a scene goes by without a creepy gag (one child's present is a shrunken head) or clever dialogue ("Jack, please, I'm only an elected official here. I can't make decisions by myself!"). But the best humor comes from the Halloween-town's residents eagerly trying to be festive, and only making Christmas even creepier than Halloween ever could be.

For a skeleton puppet, Jack Skellington is a pretty adorable hero -- he's earnest, generous, but suffers from a bit of ennui from the same old performance every year. His meditative songs about Halloween and his attempts at Christmas add an introspective note to him as well. And he's backed by a bunch of lovable characters, with Sally and the ghost dog Zero at the forefront.

"Nightmare Before Christmas" is a macabre, wildly adorable little movie that reminds us why we love Halloween (besides the candy). Sometimes the dark and fun go hand in hand.
Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)



 
2 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Fat Goth Ruins Christmas for Everyone, 26 Jan 2009
Gothic fat lad Tim Burton lets his stunted boy genius have its full rein for an excruciating 76 minutes. Two minutes in and you'll be clawing at your own retinas using splintered shards of the same ironic black-framed designer `spaz' glasses you've just paid £650 for, to highlight how studious/intense/quirky you are, only to end up looking like a fully signed-up member of a Joe 90-themed paedophile ring. Add to that a musical score by Burton's longstanding accomplice in mediocrity Danny Elfman (Oingo Boingo, anyone?) and you have songs that are about as welcome as a dart in the eyeball yet manage to loom menacingly towards you throughout the entire feature like a turd in municipal swimming bath.

A wholly cretinous film for people who eat boil-in-the-bag noodles, whilst masturbating to late-night repeats of the Clangers, and class it as an alternative lifestyle.
Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)


Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
 
 
 
Most Recent Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining
An entertaining movie, giving cartoon a different meaning.
It is a little scary, so I didn't have the heart to show it to my 5 year old daughter yet.
Published 3 months ago by Jan

5.0 out of 5 stars The Nightmare Before Christmas
'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is one of those wonderfully atmospheric films that has easily stood the test of time. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Spider Monkey

4.0 out of 5 stars charming animation with catchy songs
Tired with Halloween Pumpkin King Jack Skellington finds a land called Christmas Town and plans to make the festivities very frightening. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Stampy

Only search this product's reviews


Customer Discussions

 Beta (What's this?)
This product's forum (1 discussion)
  Discussion Replies Latest Post
is this really a coffin shaped box? 0 October 2008
› See all discussions...  
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
  [Cancel]


Active discussions in related forums
   
Related forums

Listmania!

Create a Listmania! list

Look for similar items by category

Feedback

Health & Beauty at Amazon.co.uk

Elemis Resurface and Renew Skin Care Gift Set of 4 Products
From soap to shavers, massagers to mascara, stock up on your daily essentials or truly pamper yourself.

›Discover Health & Beauty

  

Up to 75% off Shoes

Shoe Clearance - 75% off Shoes
Save up to 75% on shoes for the whole family.

›Shop clearance shoes

  

Up to 53% off Braun Series Shavers

Braun Series 3 390cc Clean & Renew System Rechargeable Foil Electric Shaver
Get in touch with your smooth side with Braun Series shavers, now with Gillette blade technology.

›Discover Braun Series at Amazon.co.uk

  

Treat Someone

Amazon.co.uk Gift Certificates--available in any amount from £5 to £500 With an Amazon.co.uk Gift Certificate, you can get them what they want (even if you don't know what that is).

›Learn more about Gift Certificates

  
Ad

Where's My Stuff?

Delivery and Returns

Need Help?

Your Recent History

  (What's this?)
You have no recently viewed items or searches.

After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.

Look to the right column to find helpful suggestions for your shopping session.
Continue Shopping: Top Sellers

amazon.co.uk Amazon Home
International Sites:  United States  |  Germany  |  France  |  Japan  |  Canada  |  China
Business Programs: Sell on Amazon  |  Fulfilment by Amazon  |  Join Associates  |  Join Advantage
Customer Service  |  Help  |  View Basket  |  Your Account
About Amazon.co.uk  |  Careers at Amazon
Conditions of Use & Sale |  Privacy Notice  © 1996-2009, Amazon.com, Inc. and its affiliates