The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

Halloween Town is a fantasy world filled with various monsters and supernatural beings associated with the holiday. Jack Skellington, respected by the citizens as the “Pumpkin King”, leads them in organizing the annual Halloween celebrations. However, privately Jack has grown weary of the same routine year after year and wants something new.

Wandering in the woods the next morning, he stumbles across six trees containing doors leading to other towns representing various holidays, (Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas and Independence Day) and enters the one shaped like a Christmas tree, which leads into Christmas Town. Awed by the unfamiliar holiday, Jack returns to Halloween Town to show the residents his findings, but they fail to grasp the idea of Christmas and compare everything to their ideas of Halloween. However, they do relate to one Christmas Town character: its ruler, Santa Claus, as Jack mistakenly describes him as a malevolent being called “Sandy Claws”.