Henry Selick Archives

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

Rating: ★★★★★

Feb 8, 2004Halloween Denizens Take Over Christmas/Stop-Motion Animation

Tim Burton and Henry Selick combine on this stop-motion animated fantasy made in Burton's characteristcially eccentric style, a beautifully stylised and dark fantasy in which assorted Halloween denizens invade Christmas

Director: Henry Selick

Actors: Chris Sarandon, Danny Elfman, Catherine O'Hara, William Hickey, …

Category: Fantasy

8 February 200423 April 2020 by Roog

James and the Giant Peach (1996)

Rating: ★★★★

Dec 1, 2000Fantastical Journey/Stop-Motion Animation/Roald Dahl Adaptation

Henry Selick's follow-up to The Nightmare Before Christmas, a Roald Dahl adaptation filled with enormous visual creativity as a boy and several talking insects set forth on a sea journey in a giant peach

Director: Henry Selick

Actors: Paul Terry, Miriam Margolyes, Joanna Lumley, Pete Postlethwaite, …

Category: Fantasy

1 December 200012 May 2026 by Roog

Monkeybone (2001)

Rating: ★★½

Feb 23, 2001Cartoonist in the Afterlife

Henry Selick's first venture into live-action in which Brendan Fraser becomes trapped in a bizarre afterlife while a mischievous monkey steals his body

Director: Henry Selick

Actors: Brendan Fraser, Bridget Fonda, John Turturro, Chris Kattan, …

Category: Fantasy

23 February 200113 October 2023 by Roog

Coraline (2009)

Rating: ★★★★

Aug 25, 2009Stop-Motion Animation/Sinister Mirror World

The welcome return of stop-motion animator Henry Selick, the director of The Nightmare Before Christmas and at his wildly imaginative and darkly menacing best in an adaptation of a book by Neil Gaiman

Director: Henry Selick

Actors: Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, …

Category: Fantasy

25 August 200918 December 2019 by Roog