What was the name of the town in Tim Burton's "The Nightmare Before Christmas"?

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The town in Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas is called Halloween Town.

Halloween Town is the film’s central setting and a fantasy world inhabited by monsters, witches, ghosts, skeletons, vampires, and other Halloween-themed characters. Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King, leads the town’s annual Halloween celebrations, but becomes bored with repeating the same traditions.

His discovery of a portal to Christmas Town drives the story. Fascinated by Christmas, Jack tries to make the holiday his own, with disastrous results because Halloween Town’s residents understand fright and macabre humor better than warmth and gift-giving. The town’s song “This Is Halloween” introduces its strange but energetic community near the beginning of the film.

A common mix-up is Halloweentown, the name of a separate Disney Channel film series that began with the 1998 movie Halloweentown. The stop-motion film’s setting is specifically written as “Halloween Town,” with a space. The 1993 film was directed by Henry Selick, produced and conceived by Tim Burton, and scored by Danny Elfman.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Aug. 2026

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