What’s this? What’s this? A roundup of everyone who’s covered The Nightmare Before Christmas songs? It’s exactly what you need in your life to prep for Halloween, regardless if you’re still figuring out your Halloween costume—or never changed out of the one from last year. So, if you’ve ever been curious if your favorite The Nightmare Before Christmas songs have been made into covers that you can oogie boogie to, we’ve got the list right here. Luckily for you, Walt Disney Records has released two albums chock full of covers as well!

The original soundtrack to Last Year. Last Year is a 5 vs 1 multiplayer asymmetrical action game where 5 players play as a group of teenagers, such as the Jock, the Nerd, or the Popular Girl, and must survive against the one player that is playing as the Killer. Every time the Killer dies they come back as a new Killer, with different abilities, and the Survivors must adapt and work together if they.

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Panic! At the Disco – “This is Halloween”

Can Brendon Urie and the rest of this band do anything wrong? Clearly not, with this perfectly pop-punk version of Halloween Town’s anthem. It’s the perfect intro to rocking on with the rest of the film’s soundtrack.

Amy Lee – “Sally’s Song”

The popular lead singer of Evanescence fame lends the perfect vocals to this wailing song to completely surround your soul and shake you to your bones. Her take starts off slow and haunting and gradually builds into a crescendo. Bonus points for Amy playing both her harp and piano on the track!

Fiona Apple – “Sally’s Song”

Fiona Apple’s version appeared on the 2006 re-release bonus disc of The Nightmare Before Christmas and gives a completely different feel to the song than Amy’s, though both are completely great. A little more upbeat from the start, it has a bit of a playful and dance-y feel.

Helena Bonham Carter – “Sally’s Song”

This special song got the star treatment from not just one or two, but three amazing ladies! This magical movie maven covered the song live at Royal Albert Hall in London back in 2013 and was an absolute doll while doing it.

Korn – “Kidnap the Sandy Claws”

For more of a head-banging tune, blast Korn’s version of this devious ditty from the Nightmare Revisited album. It’s mischievous, metal, and marvelous all at once.

Plain White Ts – “Poor Jack”

Poor Jack, but lucky us that we get to hear this wonderful rendition on Nightmare Revisited. It’s simple and stripped down, but still perfectly powerful.

The All-American Rejects – “Jack’s Lament”

This is a wonderfully theatrical take on this sad tune about Jack longing for more. We highly recommend crawling around your favorite happy haunt and reciting monologues on hills to this one.

Rise Against – “Making Christmas”

Make Christmas hardcore with Rise Against’s rallying cry—it’s the perfect background music to decking the halls this season. The bellowing laugh in the middle of the song is a must when singing it aloud.

Fall Out Boy – “What’s This?”

When we heard that one of our favorite emo pop bands (we couldn’t stop blasting “Immortals” after watching Big Hero 6) did a The Nightmare Before Christmas cover, we immediately sat down and gave it our full attention. Thumbs up to these pop punk-in kings.

Flyleaf – “What’s This?”

Another alternative rock track on Nightmare Revisited, it’s a bit darker and more melancholy than Fall Out Boy’s take, but definitely suits a spooky mood.

Shiny Toy Guns – “Finale/Reprise”

In contrast to Amy Lee’s cover of “Sally’s Song,” this rendition starts out frenzied and loud, then slowly mellows out at about the minute mark, to more synth and more harmonizing.

Bonus: Nick Pitera – “This is Halloween”

That’s right—a few years ago we got the YouTube singer extraordinaire to do a chilling one-man acapella cover of “This is Halloween.” For what’s better than a single vocal to get us in the mood for Halloween? Nine of ‘em!

Bonus bonus: The Nightmare Before Christmas reference in Blink-182’s “I Miss You”

We’d be remiss if we didn’t mention this classic tune. Although not technically a cover, this alt rock anthem references “[living] like Jack and Sally” and “having Halloween on Christmas” (yes to both of those things).

For a few more delightful and frightful The Nightmare Before Christmas covers you can check out the entire Nightmare Revisited album here as well as the Special Edition reissue of the film soundtrack here.

What’s your favorite rendition of a The Nightmare Before Christmas song? Let us know in the comments!

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Developer: Elastic Games
Publisher: Elastic Games
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Tested on: PC

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High school is a nightmare in its own right with teenagers, hormones and homework that makes for a deadly cocktail. This is especially true if you’re not among the popular kids. However things can still get much worse as you might get stalked by a relentless serial killer. If this makes you nostalgic for a good slasher movie such as Scream, Halloween and A Nightmare on Elm Street, then keep on reading.

Story

The easiest way to explain the story of Last Year: The Nightmare is to compare it to one of the many slasher horror movies of the 90s as the aforementioned Scream, Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street and many others. The premise is that a group of teenagers, five in this case, are being chased by a serial killer. The teenagers follow the pattern of strong stereotypes: Chad the quarterback, Nick the nerd, Amber the prom queen, Troy the cool kid and Sam the geek. On the other end of the spectrum we have three serial killers with very descriptive names: Giant, Strangler and Slasher. Not much can be said about them except that they are or act exactly as there name states. The only bit of story can be found at the start of each map in the form of a small clip in which the teenagers explain their escape plan. Beyond that there is no real story or character development. The origin of the serial killers is also kept very vague. Not that this has ever stopped a game or movie from being successful so no points are deducted for this.

Graphics

The graphics look great as the characters and their stereotypes are well recognizable, even from a distance. The serial killers are all distinct looking and scary. It is clear that a lot of effort was put into creating some memorable bad guys. Same goes for the environments and level design with plenty of dark places and corners where death could be lurking. The death scenes are also rather elabor

Last Year: The Nightmare Soundtrack