This Is Halloween

at the Disco in 2006 for the special edition release of the film's soundtrack and subsequently included on the 2008 cover album, Nightmare Revisited.

The song was performed as part of a virtual Broadway benefit concert hosted by the Disney Music Group on Halloween 2020.

[7] "This Is Halloween" is performed by an orchestra, consisting of a piano, a string section, woodwind and brass instruments, cowbells, tambourines, a xylophone, and a banjo.

[9] Writer David Ventura highlighted the fact that despite multiple artists often singing simultaneously, their voice lines don't overlap, as they're always at least two octaves apart.

According to Asprou, the short, separated notes played in quick succession help establish an eerie atmosphere that persists throughout the composition.

The flute and brass instruments on "This Is Halloween" are played in broken arpeggios, which, according to Asprou, allows the song to "portray the destructive nature of witches and corpses".

Mary Sollosi from Entertainment Weekly ranked it as the second best song in The Nightmare Before Christmas,[12] while Darren Franich from the same website described it as a "rousing hymn" and "the October anthem".

[2] Elfman later expressed happiness with the song's longevity, commenting in 2021, "When [Nightmare] came out, I did a two-day press junket and virtually every interview started with: 'Too scary for kids, right?'