
High school students investigate a mysterious homicide that occurred the prior holiday season, a couple notices their young son is acting strangely after a snowy forest trip to cut down a traditional tree and one family are stalked through a winter wonderland by Krampus, the Xmas demon. Meanwhile at the North Pole, Santa is fending off zombie elves.... (Full plot summary below)
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High school students investigate a mysterious homicide that occurred the prior holiday season, a couple notices their young son is acting strangely after a snowy forest trip to cut down a traditional tree and one family are stalked through a winter wonderland by Krampus, the Xmas demon. Meanwhile at the North Pole, Santa is fending off zombie elves.
Leave your thoughts about A Christmas Horror Story.
| Assignment XAbbie BernsteinA Christmas Horror Story is made with craft and it has a properly unsettling effect. |
| Globe and MailBrad WheelerThis smart, zippy, bloody frightster is a Canadian-made gift that will continue to give, in the best possible ho-ho-ho horror way. |
| Detroit NewsTom LongConsidering 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. |
| NOW TorontoAndrew ParkerSpooky, playful and sometimes gory, but rarely terrifying, the film's more interested in giving each arc some witty social commentary to go along with its scares. |
| Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinAs 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. |
| NerdistScott WeinbergFeels a lot like a Christmas version of Michael Dougherty's seasonal favorite Trick 'r Treat, and that's meant as a compliment. |
| Caution SpoilersSarah CartlandUnlike those piles of beautifully wrapped presents from our childhoods, this festive horror delivers considerably more than it promises. |
| VarietyDennis HarveyNone is particularly original (though there is one good final twist), but they’re all reasonably entertaining. |
| New York TimesGlenn KennyUnsparingly 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. |
| RogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiThe 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. |