Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas in 3-D (2006)

In 1993, Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas was the pumpkin-king of stop-motion, that classic analog precedent to CG animation. Burton and detail-obsessed director-animator Henry Selick delivered a Goth-holiday mutation of Rankin-Bass Christmas classics. Now the tale of Jack Skellington, the Halloween avatar who disastrously annexes Christmas, is back in actual 3-D, a process that here doesn't produce many in-your-face jolts, but limns Selick's lapidary ghouls quite beautifully. Flattened for years on cable and video, Nightmare has been resurrected in all its tactile glory.