Unsparingly gory and on occasion actually shock-inducing, it can’t help falling prey to Genre Overreach syndrome, in which horror fans turned horror creators maniacally pile up their favorite terrorizing tropes, as if they’d never get the chance again.
A Christmas Horror Story
Canada · 2015
1h 39m
Director Brett Sullivan, Steven Hoban, Grant Harvey
Starring William Shatner, George Buza, Rob Archer, Zoé De Grand Maison
Genre Horror, Fantasy
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Christmas is supposed to be a time of joy, peace and goodwill. But for some folks in the small town of Bailey Downs, it turns into something much less festive.
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What are critics saying?
None is particularly original (though there is one good final twist), but they’re all reasonably entertaining.
Los Angeles Times by Gary Goldstein
As horror movies go, this one's not especially tense or scary. Instead, it's eerie, provocative and at times ridiculously violent. The ending feels like a cop-out after so much creative mayhem.
RogerEbert.com by Peter Sobczynski
The film is constantly undercutting its own ability to generate any real suspense because whenever one of the stories begins to generate any real head of steam, viewers are jerked into another one and the whole process starts over again.
The anthology is a mixed stocking; if you reach inside, something's likely to grab you.
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