Nightmare Before Christmas

This is the one movie that no under-grounder can do without. Even though the movie was first released in theaters back when I was around the age of five or six, it still gains attention to this day. New releases or enhanced releases come out every couple years, and there's always an upsurge in Nightmare Before Christmas merchandise around Christmas and Halloween. Why is the movie still so popular among the alternative world today? I honestly have no clue.
For those who've never seen this movie, or haven't watched it in so long they forgot about it, it's a story of the holidays gone wrong. In Tim Burton's world, each holiday has their own different world to live in and celebrate their holidays. Jack, the Pumpkin King of the Halloween-world, is getting tired of the same thing year after year and starts looking for a way to switch things up. Unfortunately for Santa Claus, Jack chooses Christmas to experiment with. From there, the holiday gets turned upside down and it's up to Jack to rescue Santa and his long-time admirer, the adorable rag-doll Sally, from the insidious Oogey Boogeyman.
Possibly one of the best qualities of this film is that it shows how boring a "normal" life can be. While the holiday worlds are depicted as fun and exciting, the Human world is relatively dull until Jack starts bringing his own bit of holiday cheer to all the good little boys and girls. Although his attempts are good-natured, they are ultimately misunderstood by the "normal" world as well as the holidays worlds, even his own. Jack is the perfect example of the typical under-grounder. He thinks outside the box and sees the world differently than others, but he has a hard time explaining himself to those around him and winds up being seen as something negative when he meant no harm. The combination of that and the subtle love-story between Jack and Sally, the ultimate goth romance, keeps bringing the underground world back to Tim Burton's vision.