The Nightmare Before Christmas 2 (Skellington Night)



Skellington Night is an Unofficial Sequel to Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas. Unlike the iconic predecessor, this film was done with Computer Animation, but the film was animated in such a way that it looked very close to it's predecessor, and the individuals who have viewed this film have questioned it being animated. However, this sequel got no DVD, Itunes, VHS or any release of any format, and it is only available on YouTube as an unlisted video that only the creator has, via Email. As this had no release anywhere besides YouTube, the profit was very low, and mostly only went to the actors voicing over.

The video was uploaded on June 15, 2018. Released by Walt Disney Pictures and Touchstone Pictures, according to the opening logos. It was also produced by ImageMovers and Castle Rock Entertainment, with ImageMovers collaborating with Disney to animate and Castle Rock's part being unconfirmed.

A Good Deal of the cast of the 1993 Predecessor Return, including Ken Page as Oogie Boogie and Chris Sarandon as Jack Skellington.

The plot of the film involves Jack Skellington looking for happiness, after his interest for Halloween is still wearing a bit thin, but he is facing concequences for his actions on Christmas Eve in the previous film, meaning people are being awful to him. A new creation of Dr. Finkelstein's, Ella, falls in love with Jack, and wants to help him become happier, but her offers are all violence against society. It also features Krampus, the legendary oppisite of Santa Claus.

This is also a notable film for expanding the Holiday Worlds, specifically the appearance of Valentines Town.

This film is dedicated to William Hickey and Glen Shaddix, who voiced Dr. Finkelstein and The Mayor of Halloween Town in The Nightmare Before Christmas, who passed away in 1997 and 2010, respectively.

==Plot==

One year after the events of The Nightmare Before Christmas, Jack Skellington is on a journey to find some new ideas for Halloween and his original Holiday, Skellington Night. However, most of his attempts result in him getting hurt, and a new creation of Dr. Finkelstein tries to do harm to the real world because of it.



Description of the events of the film
One year after the events of The Nightmare Before Christmas, Jack Skellington makes a great Halloween with adding some odd Christmas influenced ideas he mentions during the song Poor Jack. The rest of the people of Halloween Town are also pretty happy, and Jack has a way better year this time, yet, the idea of Halloween still wears thin on Jack. However, he's been in some serious trouble since last Christmas.

Explorers found the scary place known as Halloween Town, after there was lots of investigation for the impostor Santa Claus, Jack's broken down sleigh was discovered and DNA Searched, with Jack being discovered to be behind all of it. Therefore, Jack Skellington has been banned from the real world in certain locations. Of course, they do not realize his real intention.

That Halloween Night, Jack falls asleep and in his dream, ack decides to ask Santa Claus for help getting ideas, and even decides to bring him some milk and cookies as an apology for last year. When Jack arrives in Christmas Town, he knocks on Santa's door. When Santa answers, he is incredibly shocked and instructs him to leave, ignoring everything Jack was about to say. Hurt, Jack leaves the milk and cookies on the ground and sadly walks away all the way back to Halloween Town. It becomes evident to the residents of Halloween Town that Jack is upset, as they all were looking for him, and when he came back through the entrance, he came back looking really sad and halfway silent. Jack then is reminded of his mistakes by a demented version of himself as well as Oogie Boogie. Jack is woken up by Sally for a brief amount of time. After much conversation and thought, Sally decided to visit Santa and speak with him.

Dr. Finkelstein decided to build another creation, a female vampire-like being named Ella, which he built in a similar fashion as Sally, except that the only part that can be dismembered is her head. Jack had helped Finkelstein create her, and in the process she became obsessed with Jack, and liked him in a similar way as Sally. However, Ella has a much more sadistic nature and comes off as an Anti Hero.

In the meantime, Ella had figured out where Jack lives, and she finds him and meets him. He tells her a bit about himself, and mentions his error of last year. Shortly after Jack brought her to life, Ella followed him to the Holiday Doors, and she went through every single one over the course of 2 hours.

In Christmas Town, Sally explains Jack's situation to Santa, who insists that him and Jack are fine now, as he did throw them a blanket a snow in the previous film's finale. Santa tells them to just have Christmas in Halloween Town, which Sally takes this answer as the most obvious one yet.

While Jack sits there, unhappy, he sits and thinks of what he could do. After many, many minutes of thinking (45 minutes to be exact), he comes to the idea of creating a holiday entirely based on his likeness. As Jack is quite an icon already associated with Halloween, he will have a similar night every year where he will show off a new act, with all it's weirdness it associates with. This is the idea that he plans to stick with, and he will speak of this as soon as he can have The Mayor call a Town Meeting.

Sally returns to Jack and explains that Santa had no ideas for Halloween, but he did suggest to have a Halloween Town rendition of Christmas, being it's only celebrated in Halloween Town. Jack finds this to be a great idea and wonders why he didn't think of it in the first place. However, thinking led to him remembering the concept of a Mall Santa, which he decides that he will do in the real world, much to Sally's dismay.

On December 6, Jack gets into the familiar Santa costume and finds a location that he wouldn't be recognized for his accident in. Also, he's going to have to take the place of a Real Santa by dethroning his position, so he can pass undetected. He's also not packing any presents, discovering that his gifts were living. When he gets place as Santa, the kids have mixed reactions. Some kids consider Jack awesome, and others are terrified of him. However, one of the adults recognizes him as the Imposter Claus after he takes his head off, and is exhiled from the area by the cops. The cops also tell Jack that Christmas isn't for him to take over. It's for him to leave alone. Jack returns to Halloween Town, disappointed, and saddened. In spite of all, Jack enjoyed being Santa again, as kids did sit on his lap and treat him like Santa.

Sally and Jack have a conversation, which Ella listened in on, who then calls a Town Meeting, which The Mayor is unsure of, but she then says Jack is having a rough time and wanted her to fill in for him. The Mayor then accepts and allows her to speak under the permission of Jack Skellington. Ella insisted that the townspeople help out Jack and teach the real people a lesson for treating Jack the way they have been, and almost everyone agrees to it. However, Jack walks in before she can complete, and Ella gives him a rundown, and Jack tries to reword it a little bit. Ella then insists to Jack over the intercom that he has his own Holiday, and he likes and agrees to the idea. December 9 will be the date of Skellington Night. While Jack doesn't want to hurt anyone and sadly just accept people don't like him as Santa, Ella wants Jack to be happier. Therefore, she's going to attempt to punish people for it. In an attempt to brighten up Jack, Ella brings him into Valentine's Town, with Zero. While Jack admires the place, he isn't feeling much better.

Meanwhile, Lock, Shock and Barrel are up to no good. They go around infiltrating Christmas Town for a way to cause mischief, when they encounter a prison similar to Oogie's lair, only this one includes Krampus, the legendary holiday demon, who was designed as an alternative for Santa Claus. As the legend has been forgotten by most people, Krampus was imprisoned. Lock, Shock and Barrel free him from his prison and keep him in Oogie's Lair. December 9 rolls around and Jack and The Halloween Townspeople head into the real world, Ella puts Jack to a test. Whoever responds to Jack nicely gets spared, and whoever flips out... well.

While Ella prepared to kill someone, the neighborhood they had picked (aside from the police, the same officer) was actually very accepting of Jack and the rest of the people. Proving that Ella had no opportunity to kill anyone, she thought, they all headed back home. But, Jack was still upset about the Christmas situation, and Ella decided to do one thing: What Jack did the year before, only this time, it's entirely intentional, she is going to deliver evil gifts in order to send a message. Ella has Lock, Shock and Barrel kidnap Santa again, this time with her assistance, so Santa has a clear motive that Jack has nothing to do with this, aside from being Ella's motive. While Sally and Zero were asleep, Jack began to decorate his house to look Christmasy for tomorrow, he had a Christmas in mind.

After Ella begins Wrecking Havoc in some areas, and bringing normal gifts to others, Jack finds out what she is up to after Lock, Shock and Barrel can't keep it quiet. Jack rescues Santa, to which Santa lets him take place with Christmas Themed Presents and even lets him use his sleigh and reindeer. Jack finds Ella and insists she ends her plot of revenge, and after a while, she gives up and lets Jack do his Job as Santa. Then, after a while, Santa takes Jack's place for other locations. On Christmas Day, which goes a success, with Santa stopping by and delivering gifts to the Halloween Town residents, Ella calls Jack into Finkelstein's lair, where he has an entire population of creations, which he worked on for months. However, Lock, Shock and Barrel find Ella and capture her and Finkelstein for a brief amount of time. Over the events of the story, they were able to maintain Oogie's Soul into a crate shortly after his demise, and when they open the crate, Oogie's Ghost comes out, and he is a giant, ghost like being, and he possesses all of Finkelstein's creations and turns them into Zombies, and lets them loose in order to wreak havoc. Their plan was to pull a prank on the town, but they do not realize what they are doing is very dangerous.

They seem to be unstoppable, as no matter what they get hit with, no matter how dismembered they become, they reassemble themselves and continue their rampage. The Zombies capture Sally from The Spiral Hill and drag her into Oogie's Lair, contrasting, Lock, Shock and Barrel let loose of Ella and Finkelstein, then run away to avoid taking the blame, after realizing what they have done is going to cause lots of trouble.

Jack follows The Zombies to Oogie's Lair. In it, Oogie's Ghost is there, preparing to have his Zombie Army devour Sally, to which Jack learns that the only way to stop the Zombies is to defeat Oogie, and destroy his remains. Jack figures out that he cannot do it easily, and struggles to do it. Lock, Shock and Barrel appear and begin mocking Jack. He demands them for a strategy to defeat Oogie, to which Ella comes in with Santa Claus stuffed in a body bag and tells the trio to take Santa somewhere safe, in exchange for Oogie's Crate, which they agree to.

However, Oogie sucks all the souls out of The Zombies and merges with them and becomes a Dragon.

The Dragon knocks over half the foundation of the well (the one Jack comes out of in This is Halloween), which starts a minor flood. Jack finds his Scarecrow Costume, which he dones, then he grabs an exposed rope off the ceiling and rescues Sally, gets her to a safe location, and he then takes a torch off the wall and lights himself on fire, and dives upward into The Dragon, bursting a hole right through it, with Oogie's Ghost coming out. Jack lands in the flood, parting him with the flames and Scarecrow Attire. However, instead of dying, Oogie again uses the souls to turn himself into a Wolf. In the process, he steps into the water, making his foot dissolve back into a soul, and then back into a foot. The weakness of The Wolf is that every hit it takes, it loses part of it's body, and has to take a moment to put itself back together.

After a very intense battle, where it went as far as he was almost crushed by a collapsing ceiling, Jack is able to push The Wolf into the flood, dissolving it back into souls. The final form Jack must face is Oogie's Ghost, which was already a chore. Jack gets him back in his crate, and then places it into a Lava Pit, killing Oogie again. After Jack questions Lock, Shock and Barrel, and discovers that this act was intended as a prank, which Jack seems to be pretty infuriated by, considering how it could have killed a lot of people, including himself, they let Krampus out of his captivity, who attacks Jack directly, as he has a lot to be blamed for, which leads into a battle between Jack and Krampus.

=== Despite Krampus not being as commonly known as Santa Claus, he was mentioned in one of the Christmas Books Jack read about, so he does know about him and who he is. Krampus nearly gets the upper hand on Jack when Santa comes into stop him by smacking him right in the head with a board. Krampus is stuffed in a body bag, and taken back into captivity. Santa and Jack thank each other for each other's help. Santa gives Jack a supply of presents to deliver to the residents of Halloween Town, even though they already had a Christmas earlier, but, Jack got a Christmas Present at that moment. An opportunity to be Sandy Claws. Even if it's in his own location, he still gets to do it, with even a blanket of snow to accompany him. === It ends with Jack and Sally kissing on the top of The Spiral Hill.





Trivia
VHS - A VHS tape exists, and little information can be found besides it has The Touchstone Pictures "Snake" Logo in the begining and only the creator owns it.

Tim Burton has rejected many sequel ideas, and this one was more than likely one of them.

The creator of this intended this as a story only.

Disney wanted to make a sequel in 2001, but with Computer Animation rather than Stop Motion Animation. Tim Burton convinced Disney to drop the idea.

The movie was uploaded the same day as Incredibles 2 was released to theaters in North America.

It is possible that the cast wasn't informed that the film was only going to YouTube.

The film was animated in such a way it closely resembled Stop Motion, specifically, the style of the Iconic Predecessor.