Halloween Town

Halloween Town as it appears in the film

Halloween Town is a location from Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) which is referenced throughout the seasonal Haunted Mansion Holiday and Haunted Mansion Holiday Nightmare overlays for the Haunted Mansion in Disneyland and the mansion from Tokyo Disneyland. This is largely due to it being home to many of the characters featured within these overlays.

Description

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Halloween Town is one of seven known magic holiday-worlds alongside one for Christmas, St. Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, American Thanksgiving, Easter, and Independence Day. Each of these worlds can be accessed via door in a tree with Halloween Town being shown to be accessed from the mortal world via tombs. Each holiday world has the purpose of creating the iconography of the holidays which they represent then spreading it to the mortal world.

It is seemingly ruled over by an elected mayor but in-practice is more lead by its, "Pumpkin King" Jack Skellington who they actively idolize. The town is obsessed with halloween and spends every day of the year obsessed over production of the holiday.

Appearances

Haunted Mansion Holiday & Haunted Mansion Holiday Nightmare

In the backstory for the overlays, Jack and the residents of Halloween Town decided to travel to the Haunted Mansion in-order to aid the spirits of the house in celebrating the holiday-season in a fashion more in-tune with their macabre lifestyle. The toys and items seen also originate from Halloween Town, having been brought there.

Halloween Town is mentioned by the Ghost Host in his narration of the attraction. Several of the portraits seen in the attraction are also likely placed within Halloween Town, the portrait of Jack Skellington on the hill explicitly is as such with the skyline of the town being in the background.

Notable Residents

• Jack Skellington: The Pumpkin King of Halloween Town.
• Sally: Dr. Finkelstein's creation who has a crush on Jack.
• Oogie Boogie: A gambler who had Santa Claus in his grasp.
• Zero: Jack's pet ghost dog with a glowing nose.
• Lock, Shock and Barrel: Trick or Treaters who are the henchmen of Oogie Boogie.

• The Mayor of Halloween Town: The puppet-like (literal) two-faced mayor of Halloween Town.
• Dr. Finkelstein: The mad-scientist who created Sally. In the diorama of the ride he can be seen holding a skull resembling his own as his scalp opens, revealing the ridges on his brain are glowing to say, "Noel" (French for Christmas).
• The Clown: The Clown with the Tear-Away Face is a maniacal clown who as his name implies, can remove his face to reveal a black abyss within. In the diorama in the loading zone, there is a snowflake underneath.
• The Harlequin Demon: A monster that is a physiology resembling a traditional harlequin's costume; a harlequin being a clown-like stock character from Italian performance-art.
• The Mummy: A diminutive, one-eyed mummy.
• Mister Hyde: A character based on the literary character of Mister Hyde who has two miniature versions of himself living under his top-hat (possibly as a joke about hidden multiple personalities).
• The Undersea Gal: An amphibious monster woman.
• The Wolfman: A werewolf-like creature inhabitant of the town.
• The Cyclops: A hairy, diminutive, goblin-like monster with one giant Greek eye.
• The Vampires: Four blank-eyed vampires of varying size who resemble Count Dracula.
• The Witches: Two witches, one small and one tall.
• The Town Band:
  • The withered Saxophone Player who uses a metal sax which resembles a wailing serpent.
  • An Accordion Player who uses an accordion made from a large dead fish.
  • The stitched-together Bass Player who uses a coffin-shaped bass with a corpse inside
  • A head resembling that of Danny Elfman, inside the bass to guide the band.
• The One hiding under your bed: A monster who hides under the bed with sharp teeth and glowing red eyes.
• The One Hiding under your Stairs: A sand-worm like creature which moved via a wheeled platform and which has fingers like snakes and a spider for its hair.
• The Devil: A red demon resembling the archetypal Satan.
• The Behemoth: A large pale man with an axe stuck in his head who resembles Tor Johnson's zombie Inspector Clay from Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959).
• Igor: The hunchbacked assistant of Dr. Finkelstein with the apparent intelligence of a dog.
• Frankenstein's Monster: A creature resembling Boris Karloff's portrayal of Frankenstein's monster.
• The Grim Reaper: The cloaked embodiment of death.
• The Old Witch: A hag resembling the Disney villain Evil Queen's disguise from Snow White who holds an apple.
• The Corpse Family:
  • • Corpse Dad: A scrawny corpse man.
    • Corpse Mom: A large corpse woman.
    • Corpse Kid: A small undead child resembling Pugsley from the Addams Family.
  • Jewel: The replacement creation of Dr. Finkelstein made from half of his brain.
  • The Gallows Tree: A monstrous sentient tree which has branches holding sentient skeletons hung by nooses.
  • The Melting Man: A suited man whose flesh is a reddish brown constantly dripping from his body.
  • The Winged Demon: A child gargoyle with massive bat wings.
  • The Gate Keeper: A creature resembling an anthropomorphic raven or plague doctor.
  • The Shadows: A small group of shadows which materialize on tombstones.
    • Beaked Shadow
    • Demonic shadow
    • Two headed shadow
  • The Rat: A small, seemingly anthropomorphic rat.

Trivia

• The iconic spiral-hill from the town is recreated in the graveyard of the Haunted Mansion, made from snow and jack o'lanterns.