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Oct 2, 2015 · A Christmas Horror Story. Although the very idea of combining Christmas cheer and grisly gore is probably still enough to send certain people into pearl-clutching apoplexy, Yuletide-related bloodbaths have proven to be a popular trope for horror filmmakers over the years. On the grand scale of big-screen Noel nastiness, ranging from such ...
Oct 2, 2015 · Not even Santa Claus is safe from the evil that descends on Bailey Downs, a small town that is suddenly plagued with malevolent spirits, zombie elves and Krampus -- the anti-Santa Claus.
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- William Shatner
- Grant Harvey, Steven Hoban, Brett C. Sullivan
- Copperheart Entertainment
- Have a bloody good holiday.
- Verdict
By Cliff Wheatley
Updated: Aug 17, 2021 12:01 am
Posted: Oct 3, 2015 7:22 pm
Despite only just entering October with 20-something days still to go until Halloween, A Christmas Horror Story is here to look at the joy of Christmas through the lens of bloodshed one typically associates with Halloween. While certainly not a new concept, A Christmas Horror Story manages to buck enough expectations and deliver enough clever twists – not to mention a whole lot of gore – to be worth your time.
As one might suspect by its three directors (Steven Hoban, Grant Harvey, and Brett Sullivan), this is an anthology-style horror flick a la Trick ‘r’ Treat, though unfortunately lacking the “intertwining” aspects that the promotional materials of the film would have you believe. The stories and characters are indeed connected, but “intertwined” is a stretch: some characters know each other, established in the very beginning, but their paths never cross again nor is it even relevant to the larger story. The town of Bailey Downs as a whole seems cursed with some very bad karma, but beyond that, there is little to connect the threads.This is the source of the only real problems with A Christmas Horror Story (other than some predictably hammy acting): the structure feels like a disservice to the otherwise solid stories rather than a benefit. The movie cuts between all of these threads without any real segues, so instead of a cohesive movie, it often feels like you’re flipping between episodes of The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits. In fact, the tones of particular stories are wildly different and often makes this matter worse.
That being said, taken on their own, most of the tales are bizarre and scary fun in their own way. There are four different threads through the movie: an upper-middle class family facing off with Krampus, Santa Claus battling a hoard of zombie elves, a young couple that finds their son possessed, and a group of teenagers snooping around the site of a grisly murder that took place the previous Christmas.
A Christmas Horror Story is a lovely surprise just in time for Halloween (or Christmas) that manages to overcome its problems with tone and pacing for an enjoyable, bloody experience. It runs the gamut of cheesy gore to genuine terror, but as long as you can manage the quick changes in tone, you’ll have a blast. Plus: one of the best twist endings ...
- Cliff Wheatley
Fun, festive, gory and consistently creepy, A Christmas Horror Story takes five separate, and very enjoyable, stabs at creating a new mythology for the festive season.
A Christmas Horror Story is a 2015 Canadian anthology horror film directed by Grant Harvey, Steven Hoban, and Brett Sullivan. It premiered on July 20, 2015, at the Fantasia International Film Festival and had a limited theatrical release on October 2, 2015, along with a VOD release.
Sep 30, 2015 · Not the first, worst or most tasteless yuletide film frightfest by any means, “A Christmas Horror Story” offers five interwoven, variably comedic tales of terror set on Christmas Eve.
Oct 1, 2015 · Oct. 1, 2015. The 1974 Canadian-produced “ Black Christmas ” offended pious sensibilities with a serial-murder-on-a-silent-night theme; in 1977, the Ontario-born director David Cronenberg took...
