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.
This Is Halloween
Differently from the vast majority of Disney movies, in several countries "The Nightmare Before Christmas" was released only with subtitles, since the movie was originally thought to be "too dark and scary for kids", and was thus released as a product for adults. However, some countries did rerecord the song anyway, along with the whole movie, in their own languages.
"This Is Halloween" was covered by the band Marilyn Manson in 2006 for the special edition release of the film's soundtrack and subsequently included on the 2008 cover album, "Nightmare Revisited". The song was also covered by Panic! at the Disco for the 2006 soundtrack reissue. On the 2011 album "V-Rock Disney", which features visual kei artists covering Disney songs, Sadie covered this song. In 2014, Jonathan Young and Travis Carte covered this song for the album Young Does Disney 1. The official video, as of August 24, has just over 2 million views and 40k likes.