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This week on the Total Movie Recall Holiday Special, Steve and Ryan visit the mopey, gothy early 90s when Generation X looked to the high school Gloom King Tim Burton to express their so dark vision of Christmas. Stop motion animation is such a labor intensive craft that creates beautiful visions that aren\\u2019t all that interesting, which is going to enrage a bunch of high school Wiccans that love this movie. It does look great, though.

Tim Burton\'s\\xa0The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

d. Henry Selick

Starring:
Danny Elfman
Chris Sarandon
Catherine O\'Hara
William Hickey
Paul Reubens

The film follows the misadventures of Jack Skellington, Halloweentown\'s beloved pumpkin king, who has become bored with the same annual routine of frightening people in the "real world." When Jack accidentally stumbles on Christmastown, all bright colors and warm spirits, he gets a new lease on life\\xa0-- he plots to bring Christmas under his control by kidnapping Santa Claus and taking over the role. But Jack soon discovers even the best-laid plans of mice and skeleton men can go seriously awry.

Things discussed in the show:

Babe Pig in the City

Beetlejuice (Tim Burton, Alec Baldwin,\\xa0Geena Davis,\\xa0Michael Keaton)

Dark Shadows (Johnny Depp,\\xa0Michelle Pfeiffer,\\xa0Eva Green)

Dumbo 2019 (Colin Farrell,\\xa0Michael Keaton,\\xa0Danny DeVito)

Beetlejuice 2

Yule logs, holiday presents and the Krampus

Saturn and Jupiter aligning in 2020

Supernatural\'s final season (Eric Kripke, Jared Padalecki,\\xa0Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins)

Armageddon and kaijus

X-Files (Chris Carter, David Duchovny,\\xa0Gillian Anderson,\\xa0Mitch Pileggi)

power ranking Young Sheldon episodes

Mom (Allison Janney,\\xa0Anna Faris,\\xa0Mimi Kennedy)

The internet turning on Chris Pratt

Johnny Depp & Amanda Heard drama

The Straight Story (David Lynch, John Roach,\\xa0Mary Sweeney, Richard Farnsworth,\\xa0Sissy Spacek,\\xa0Jane Galloway Heitz)

Tom Cruise freaking out on staff not adhering to covid restrictions and Scientology

Mission Impossible 7 (Christopher McQuarrie, Vanessa Kirby,\\xa0Tom Cruise,\\xa0Hayley Atwell)

Mission Impossible Fallout (Christopher McQuarrie, Tom Cruise,\\xa0Henry Cavill,\\xa0Ving Rhames)

The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson, Philip Seymour Hoffman,\\xa0Joaquin Phoenix,\\xa0Amy Adams)

Mission Impossible 3 (J.J. Abrams, Tom Cruise,\\xa0Michelle Monaghan,\\xa0Ving Rhames)

South Park - The Pandemic Special

Cyberpunk 2077

Strange Days (Kathryn Bigelow, James Cameron, Ralph Fiennes,\\xa0Angela Bassett,\\xa0Juliette Lewis)

The Mandolorian Season 2 (Jon Favreau, Pedro Pascal,\\xa0Gina Carano,\\xa0Giancarlo Esposito, Carl Weathers, Temuera Morrison, Amy Sedaris, Bill Burr)

Kathleen Kennedy

Star Wars - The Clone Wars (George Lucas, Tom Kane,\\xa0Dee Bradley Baker,\\xa0Matt Lanter)

Star Wars - Rebels (Simon Kinberg,\\xa0Carrie Beck,\\xa0Dave Filoni, Taylor Gray,\\xa0Vanessa Marshall)

Ahsoka Tano

Mandy (Panos Cosmatos, Nicolas Cage,\\xa0Andrea Riseborough,\\xa0Linus Roache)

James Cameron\'s Avatar films

The Town (Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall,\\xa0Jon Hamm)

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, Catherine Deneuve,\\xa0Nino Castelnuovo,\\xa0Anne Vernon)

Jean-Pierre Melville

No Country for Old Men (Ethan Coen,\\xa0Joel Coen, Tommy Lee Jones,\\xa0Javier Bardem,\\xa0Josh Brolin)

Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, Harry Dean Stanton,\\xa0Nastassja Kinski,\\xa0Dean Stockwell)

Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian

Blood Simple (Joel Coen,\\xa0Ethan Coen, John Getz,\\xa0Frances McDormand,\\xa0Dan Hedaya)

The Evil Dead (Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell,\\xa0Ellen Sandweiss,\\xa0Richard DeManincor)

Fargo season 4 (Noah Hawley, Chris Rock, Jessie Buckley, Jason Schwartzman, Ben Whishaw, Jack Huston)

MacBeth 2021 (Joel Coen, William Shakespeare, Denzel Washington,\\xa0Frances McDormand,\\xa0Brendan Gleeson)

The Naked Man (J. Todd Anderson, Ethan Coen, Michael Rapaport,\\xa0Michael Jeter,\\xa0John Carroll Lynch)

Black Mirror - Nosebleed Season 3, Episode 1 (Michael Schur,\\xa0Rashida Jones, Bryce Dallas Howard, Alice Eve)

Chinese social credit

Community Meow-Meow Beans - App Development and Condiments - Season 5, Episode 8 (Rob Schrab, Yvette Nicole Brown, Joel McHale, Jim Rash, Gillian Jacobs, Alison Brie, Danny Pudi, Ken Jeong, Jonathan Banks, Steve Agee,\\xa0Brian Posehn, Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim)

Disneyland during Covid

Oingo Boingo - "Little Girls" video

Cab Calloway

The Jungle Book (Disney, Wolfgang Reitherman, Phil Harris,\\xa0Sebastian Cabot,\\xa0Louis Prima)

Stop Motion Animation

Goth Girls and the mall

Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton, Caroline Thompson, Johnny Depp,\\xa0Winona Ryder,\\xa0Dianne Wiest)

Frankenweenie (Tim Burton, Winona Ryder,\\xa0Catherine O\'Hara,\\xa0Martin Short)

Alice in Wonderland (Tim Burton, Linda Woolverton, Lewis Carroll, Mia Wasikowska,\\xa0Johnny Depp,\\xa0Helena Bonham Carter)

German Expressionism

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, Werner Krauss,\\xa0Conrad Veidt,\\xa0Friedrich Feher)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Tim Burton, Roald Dahl,\\xa0John August, Johnny Depp,\\xa0Freddie Highmore,\\xa0David Kelly)

Corpse Bride (Tim Burton,\\xa0Mike Johnson, Johnny Depp,\\xa0Helena Bonham Carter,\\xa0Emily Watson)

Big Fish (Tim Burton, Daniel Wallace,\\xa0John August, Ewan McGregor,\\xa0Albert Finney,\\xa0Billy Crudup)

Sweeny Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Tim Burton, John Logan,\\xa0Hugh Wheeler, Johnny Depp,\\xa0Helena Bonham Carter,\\xa0Alan Rickman)

Pee Wee\'s Big Adventure (Tim Burton, Phil Hartman,\\xa0Paul Reubens, Elizabeth Daily,\\xa0Mark Holton)

Ed Wood (Johnny Depp,\\xa0Martin Landau,\\xa0Sarah Jessica Parker)

Batman (Tim Burton, Bob Kane, Michael Keaton,\\xa0Jack Nicholson,\\xa0Kim Basinger)

Miss Peregrine\'s Home for Peculiar Children (Tim Burton, Eva Green,\\xa0Asa Butterfield,\\xa0Samuel L. Jackson)

The Holiday Movies the Made Us

Ray Harrihausen

Frosty the Snowman (Jackie Vernon,\\xa0Billy De Wolfe,\\xa0Jimmy Durante)

Forbidden Zone (Richard Elfman, Gene Cunningham,\\xa0Marie-Pascale Elfman,\\xa0Virginia Rose, Oingo Boingo, Danny Elfman)

Batman Returns (Tim Burton, Michael Keaton,\\xa0Danny DeVito,\\xa0Michelle Pfeiffer)

Necromancy reindeer

Slenderman & Creepy Pasta

Beware the Slenderman documentary - the story of two 12-year old girls, who attempted to sacrifice one of their friends to Slenderman in a rutal attack

American Gods (Neil Gaiman)

The Satanic Panic

The Slender Man Movie (Sylvain White, Joey King,\\xa0Julia Goldani Telles,\\xa0Jaz Sinclair)

Bad Luck Brian

Next week: Cabin Boy