Chris Sarandon ( born July 24, 1942 ) is an American actor who is best known for playing Prince Humperdinck in the film The Princess Bride, the vampire Jerry Dandridge in Fright Night and Detective Mike Norris in the first entry of the Child's Play series, and providing the speaking voice of Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas.

He also provided the voice of Jack Skellington, the main character in Tim Burton's animated Disney film The Nightmare Before Christmas ( 1993 ), and has since reprised the role in many other subsequent productions, including the Disney / Square video games Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts II and the Capcom sequel to the original film, Oogie's Revenge.

Elfman also provided the singing voice for Jack Skellington in Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas and the voices of both Barrel and the " Clown with the Tear-Away Face ".

Other successful animated musicals included Aladdin, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Pocahontas from Disney proper, The Nightmare Before Christmas from Disney division Touchstone Pictures, The Prince of Egypt from DreamWorks, Anastasia from Fox and Don Bluth, and South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut from Paramount.

Before the start level, there is a set of three pathways with easy, medium, and hard skill levels ; in order to reach the Nightmare skill level ( described in the game manual as " so bad that it was hidden, so people won't wander in by accident "< ref > ID Software.

The Nightmare Before Christmas, directed by Henry Selick and produced by Tim Burton, was one of the more widely-released stop motion features.

He is famous for his dark, quirky-themed movies such as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Corpse Bride, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, 9 and Dark Shadows, and for blockbusters such as Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Batman, Batman Returns, Planet of the Apes, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland, which was the second highest-grossing film of 2010, and the twelfth highest-grossing film of all time.

( In the future, Selick and Burton would work together in The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach.

Next, Burton wrote and produced ( but did not direct, due to schedule constraints on Batman Returns ) The Nightmare Before Christmas ( 1993 ) for Disney, originally meant to be a children's book in rhyme.

A deleted scene from The Nightmare Before Christmas features a group of vampires playing hockey on the frozen pond with the decapitated head of Burton.

Owing to creative squabbles during the making of The Nightmare Before Christmas, Danny Elfman declined to score Ed Wood, and the assignment went to Howard Shore.

He has been chosen by Battles to perform at the ATP Nightmare Before Christmas festival that they co-curate in December 2011 in Minehead, England.

In the movie The Nightmare Before Christmas ( 1994 ) Jack Skellington asks to see Santa Claus in Halloween Town, but he is mistakenly brought the Easter Bunny.

In The Nightmare Before Christmas, there is a character in Halloween Town who is clearly meant to be a version of the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

* Henry Selick ( 1952 – ) American director and animator: The Nightmare Before Christmas, Coraline

* Henry Selick ( born 1952 ), stop motion director, producer and writer who is best known for directing both The Nightmare Before Christmas, and James and the Giant Peach.

* Henry Selick ( born 1952 ), stop motion director, producer and writer who is best known for directing The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach and Coraline.

My Bloody Valentine curated the All Tomorrow's Parties ' Nightmare Before Christmas ' festival in December 2009, where they were obliged to perform on a smaller stage due to noise level issues.

In 1993, Disney released The Nightmare Before Christmas, the first feature-length stop-motion animated film.

at the Disco borrows imagery from a movie such as Moulin Rouge !, you have to consider the precedent AFI set when they borrowed cues from Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas.

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His film scores have included Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Good Will Hunting, Men in Black, Spider-Man, Big Fish, The Nightmare Before Christmas and dozens more.

Other lesser-known films during the genre's heyday include He Knows You're Alone ( 1980 ), Just Before Dawn, Bloody Moon and Nightmare ( all 1981 ), Blood Song ( 1982 ) and Mortuary ( 1983 ).

Exceptions include Who Framed Roger Rabbit and The Nightmare Before Christmas which were originally released under Disney's Touchstone imprint, though the Roger Rabbit theatrical shorts and re-releases of Nightmare have been under the Disney banner.

Examples of this genre include Psycho, Black Christmas, Halloween, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Prom Night, Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Hatchet, Friday the 13th, Child's Play, Candyman, and A Nightmare on Elm Street.

The success of the TCM remake would soon lead to a slew of other slasher remakes, including Toolbox Murders, House of Wax, Black Christmas, the " reimagining " of Halloween, Prom Night, My Bloody Valentine 3D, the Friday the 13th reboot, Sorority Row and A Nightmare on Elm Street.

His works include Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You, Beyond Therapy, Baby With the Bathwater, The Nature and Purpose of the Universe, Titanic, A History of the American Film, The Idiots Karamazov, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, Laughing Wild, ' Dentity Crisis, The Actor's Nightmare, The Vietnamization of New Jersey, Betty's Summer Vacation, Naomi in the Living Room, Adrift in Macao, Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge, Miss Witherspoon, Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them, and a collection of one-act parodies meant to be performed in one evening entitled Durang / Durang that includes " Mrs. Sorken ", " For Whom The Southern Belle Tolls " ( a parody of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams ), " A Stye Of the Eye ", " Nina in the Morning ", " Wanda's Visit ", and " Business Lunch at the Russian Tea Room ".

Nightmare has inspired video game spin-offs, including Oogie's Revenge and The Pumpkin King and is among the many Disney-owned franchises that contribute to the mythology of the Kingdom Hearts series.

Another game, The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Pumpkin King, was developed by Tose Co., Ltd. and was released for the Game Boy Advance in 2005.

This game was released at the same time as The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Pumpkin King.

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A few films worth mentioning include, but are not limited to, Prom Night, in which Jamie Lee Curtis would again embrace a scream queen role, Friday the 13th, the first entry having both a female antagonist ( Betsy Palmer ) and protagonist ( Adrienne King ), A Nightmare on Elm Street, now considered a slasher-classic, with the introduction of supernatural serial killer Freddy Krueger, had its leading actress, Heather Langenkamp, dubbed a scream queen.

Though maybe not seen as an enemy, he is portrayed as more of a bad influence toward Nemo which eventually ends up with Flip influencing Nemo to opening the forbidden door which releases the Nightmare King.

He later corrects his wrongdoing by joining Nemo in a rescue attempt to get King Morpheus back from Nightmare Land and by helping Nemo and the group find Nightmare Land with a special map of his.

* " In His Nightmare City " The New York Review of Books 54 / 11 ( 28 June 2007 ): 52-54 Mario Vargas Llosa, The Temptation of the Impossible: Victor Hugo and Les Misérables, translated from the Spanish by John King

He is also a playable character in The King of Fighters 2002 Unlimited Match, alongside his " Nightmare " variant.

The Nightmare Geese version from The King of Fighters 2002: Unlimited Match was compared with Street Fighters Shin Akuma in terms of difficulties by Eurogamer writer Matt Edwards who described him as one of the strongest opponents in the game.

It turns out that Nightmare had corrupted the fountain, and King Dedede removed the Star Rod, broke it, and spread it across Dream Land with the intention of protecting Dream Land.

Nightmare then speedily flies off into space, but rather than allowing him to escape, King Dedede inhales Kirby and the Star Rod and spits them into the air, projecting Kirby towards Nightmare.

Other notable Dark Lords include the Sith Lords from Star Wars, which include Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine ; Darkseid from DC Comics ; Lord Dracula of the Castlevania series ; Skeletor from Masters of the Universe ; Brona the Warlock Lord from The Sword of Shannara ; Morgoth from The Silmarillion ; Arawn Death-Lord from The Chronicles of Prydain ; Torak from The Belgariad ; Nightmare from Soulcalibur ; the Lich King from the Warcraft franchise ; Ganon from The Legend of Zelda ; Exdeath from Final Fantasy V, Zamorak from RuneScape and Galbatorix from The Inheritance Cycle.

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The purpose of the game is to travel to the Nightmare land to rescue Morpheus, the king of Slumberland, from the clutches of the evil Nightmare King.

The Doctor described the final days of the war as " hell ", with " the Skaro Degradations, the Horde of Travesties, the Nightmare Child, the Could-Have-Been King with his army of Meanwhiles and Never-Weres " constituting particularly disturbing developments.