Review of A Christmas Horror Story (2015) by Mrwitzelsucht — 14 Dec 2018

Like all anthology movies, this movie has some parts that are stronger than others, but on the whole, I found it very enjoyable. The film is split between four stories; a haunted school basement that had been the scene of a mysterious murder the previous year investigated by three student film-makers, a family heading into the woods to choose a tree get more than they bargained for, a bickering family visit a relative and meet Krampus, and (my personal favourite) Santa's workshop gets overrun by zombie elves. These stories flit back and forth between each other (I can't help but feel it might have worked better to tell each story in full) and are held together by our "narrator", the local DJ played by William Shatner.

The movie is a mixture of styles as one might expect from an anthology, and manages to include some big jump-scares, big laughs, creepiness and gore. If you're a horror fan, you owe it to yourself to give A Christmas Horror Story a go this December.