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Oct 2, 2015 · The story involving Krampus (who is getting his own mainstream feature this Christmas) has a couple of nicely nasty bits but takes too long to build to a finale that just isn't that much in the end. The one with the kid and the tree is nicely creepy at times but is a little too gleeful in its depiction of a little kid doing violent things and ...
Oct 2, 2015 · Rated: 2.5/4 Oct 2, 2015 Full Review Tom Long Detroit News Considering it's a crass film timed for the Halloween crowd, "A Christmas Horror Story" is pretty much as horrible as it's supposed to be.
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- William Shatner, George Buza, Rob Archer
- Grant Harvey, Steven Hoban, Brett C. Sullivan
- Copperheart Entertainment
Oct 2, 2015 · A Christmas Horror Story: Directed by Grant Harvey, Steven Hoban, Brett Sullivan. With William Shatner, George Buza, Rob Archer, Zoé De Grand Maison. Interwoven stories that take place on Christmas Eve, as told by one festive radio host: A family brings home more than a Christmas tree, a student documentary becomes a living nightmare, a Christmas spirit terrorizes, Santa slays evil.
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- Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
- Grant Harvey, Steven Hoban, Brett Sullivan
- 2015-10-02
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Oct 1, 2015 · Canada’s scary-movie war on Christmas is taken up once more in “ A Christmas Horror Story ,” a quasi omnibus of horror scenarios requiring no fewer than three directors (Grant Harvey, Steven ...
- Grant Harvey, Steven Hoban, Brett Sullivan
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- 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. Full Review | Original Score ...
Dec 14, 2022 · A Christmas Horror Story is a 2015 anthology horror with four stories leading to an epic Yuletide Daddy showdown between Santa Klaus and Krampus. This festive horror has something for every horror fan, and the superb editing provides a seamless cohesion among the stories despite having four separate directors. Even the seemingly unrelated story in […]
