How can a movie featuring the story of a young girl discovering her father’s rotting corpse (dressed in a Santa suit) in the chimney of the family home weeks after Christmas be considered “too cutesy”?
Seriously, that part of that movie kind of traumatized me for years. :eek:
Good point. Gremlins is back in play!
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Was A Christmas Horror Story the one where Shatner played a radio DJ? If so, add my recommendation as well.
Another anthology movie: “Tales From the Crypt” (1972), has a Xmas segment with Joan Collins. Fun, fun, fun!
Yep, that’s the one. With the most bad-ass Santa I’ve ever seen.
This is my favorite Christmas horror movie. Not a lot of people I know have even heard of it.
Having never even heard of A Christmas Horror Story until this thread, I just watched it and loved it.
My main gripe was from watching the behind the scenes featurette, where the producer/director talked about how every year we get feel-good Christmas movies by the truckload so he thought it’d be interesting to make a horror Christmas movie. Then they went on about how original it was to do this, and how their horror villain was so great, and how unique the concept was.
That would have been all well and good except that the movie Krampus came at the same time: Fall 2015. The only difference is that Krampus came out for Christmas, premiering on December 4th, while A Christmas Horror Story came out for Halloween on October 2nd. Since they both came out at essentially the same time, they were both in production at around the same time as well. So basically this is another example of the movie two-fer: Armageddon / Deep Impact, Volcano / Dante’s Peak, The Prestige / The Illusionist, and now Krampus / A Christmas Horror Story. Again, totally nothing wrong with that, but don’t go on and on in your behind the scenes about how unique and original your movie is when it has a doppleganger coming out at the same time.
They’re both good, modern Christmas horror movies. I think Krampus was clearly better in terms of production value (better actors, better special effects, better script, more even tone since there was only a single director, etc…) but both movies were excellent. To be clear, when I say “better”, I mean like A- for Krampus and B+ for A Christmas Horror Story.
Check out Treevenge, you can find it on YouTube. I’m at work or I’d link to it. Only 15 minutes long, but damn is it both funny and graphic.
This one’s a shorty, but loads of fun. NSFW - language; gore.
Also the Mom killing a Gremlin in a microwave, though I was also thinking go Mom! (She was originally supposed to die, apparently, but she got that awesome scene instead). And the old lady catapulted out of her stairlift made me think of stairlifts as inherently dangerous for years.
Gremlins 2 is a lot cuter (and very funny) but still has scenes you probably wouldn’t want a young child to watch.
The worst–Slay Belles, and it does have Crampus. And Barry Bostwick!