The Nightmare Before Christmas has been a movie that I grew up with and loved immediately! This is a movie that, at first glance, seems to just be a kids’ movie about a guy that is tired of the monotony of Halloweentown and desires to try something new. But looking deeper, this is a movie about breaking boundaries even when the odds seem stacked against you. In the movie, Jack Skellington experiences quite a bit of adversity when it came to constructing his perfect Christmastown but he never gave up or even looked at the experience as a bad one when it turned out terrible; this is a good lesson to not only kids but adults that even when you have a “bad” experience, there is something to to be taken from it that makes you a stronger, more well-seasoned individual. We were asked to also consider what elements of the movie have led to it being such a “cult classic” and I think that this movie has had such success because of the fact that it intersects “scary” with “jolly/cute” which can satisfy multiple audiences at once.