The Muppet Christmas Carol and craving the familiar around Christmas time

I’ve made no bones on this site about the fact that I’m not an especially nostalgic person. I am generally much more driven to pursue something new as opposed to falling into something familiar. I despair at the mount of people I talk to on dating apps lately who seem to want to rewatch Friends over and over again.

However, there is one big exception to this personal mantra, and that comes at Christmas time.

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Is The Nightmare before Christmas a Christmas movie or a Halloween movie?

I’m most assuredly not the first person to write about this. And I can already imagine there are people looking at this title and tearing their hair out at the very idea of me making this post on Halloween and not on Christmas. But that’s the whole point of this post right? To try and figure out what category this movie falls into. And I’m posting it now because my Christmas schedule is always pretty packed between work and my ‘best of year’ series. And hey, what’s wrong with doing something unconventional?