WATCH: Jersey Shore House Projects Musical Holiday Animations

TOMS RIVER, NJ — If you’re looking for some free entertainment this Christmas, head over to Joyce Street in Toms River, and park your car by the house lit up by falling snowflakes and a dancing Jack Skellington from “A Nightmare Before Christmas.” You’ll know it when you see it.

Then tune your car radio to 88.7 FM, and depending on the show, music from either “The Nightmare Before Christmas” or “The Grinch” will score the show.

Jimmy Mura, an audio engineer and lighting designer who runs an independent local music venue called The Clubhouse of Toms River, has always decorated his childhood home with Christmas lights. But this year, Mura, 26, has taken holiday decoration to a whole new level by creating two five-minute Christmas-themed animated light shows, accompanied by music, to dance over his house after the sun sets. In one, Whoville residents dance merrily and the Grinch scowls. In another, Jack Skellington sings next to a skull-faced Christmas ornament.

Earlier this year, Mura, a self-proclaimed “lifelong Disney parks fan,” began researching whether anyone had managed to recreate the building light shows he saw at Disney onto their own homes. A handful have. Around March, he started working with an animation company to project ghouls and goblins dancing on his house to the tune of “This Is Halloween” and “Any Kind of Dead Person.” Around June, he began working with Fitz Studios animators to painstakingly create “Grinch” and “Nightmare Before Christmas”-themed animations for Christmas.

Once the animations are complete, Mura puts them into a projector, which shines onto a blank white screen covering his house, which he calls "Joyce Manor."

“I make black lines of all the features of my house that are perfectly straight, and then I save that image, and when I get it back into the computer, it actually looks warped, it doesn’t look perfect, but that warp accounts for how the projector is projecting onto the house, and then I can drag whatever content I want onto those images and manipulate it to transform the house into whatever I would want it to look like,” he said.

Mura said neighbors have been supportive, especially since they don’t have to listen to the music all night. For Halloween, his designs won a best in the neighborhood award.

The show will play from about 5 p.m. until midnight each night until Jan. 6, Mura said.