The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Nightmare Before Christmas (also known as Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas) is a 1993 American stop-motion animated musical dark fantasy Halloween-Christmas film directed by Henry Selick, and produced and conceived by Tim Burton. It tells the story of Jack Skellington, the King of "Halloween Town" who stumbles through a portal to "Christmas Town" and decides to celebrate the holiday. Danny Elfman wrote the songs and score, and provided the singing voice of Jack. The principal voice cast also includes Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara, William Hickey, Ken Page, Paul Reubens, Glenn Shadix, and Ed Ivory.
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters
"The Plain Dealer" writer Tom Feran called the show "good fun" and favorably compared the series' premise to that of the animated film "The Nightmare Before Christmas". "Boston Herald" writer Frances Katz wrote, "If there was ever a great title for a cartoon, it has to be Nickelodeon's "Aaahh!!! Real Monsters"'." Not all reviews were positive. The November 1994 issue of "Parenting" magazine listed "Aaahh!!! Real Monsters" as #1 in its top ten list of the worst new shows of the television season, describing it as "Graphic and scatological; it's just plain gross." Some media outlets pointed out similarities between "Aaahh!!! Real Monsters" and "The Brothers Grunt", an MTV animated television series about a group of grotesque humanoid characters. Gábor Csupó rejected these comparisons and claims his show was more story- and character-driven with a different visual style, while Danny Antonucci's show was idea-driven.