You don’t need to be a fan of “The Nightmare Before Christmas” — in fact, you don’t even need to have seen the 1993 cult classic film — to love the dazzling light show at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, running Sept. 25 through Nov. 30.

Back for its second year, “Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas Light Trail” takes visitors through an illuminated path of high-tech lighting displays, 3-D printed sculptures and interactive video projections depicting scenes from the animated movie, inspired by a poem Burton wrote in 1982. The story is something of a holiday mash-up, marrying Halloween and Christmas with a humorous tale that involves the mayor of Halloween town, a mad scientist and a plot to kidnap Santa Claus.

But the storyline doesn’t matter all that much, said Jeffr

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