Horror Movie Review #7

A Christmas Horror Story

A surprising anthology of 4 short stories woven together to prepare us for the coming of Krampus.
First and foremost, the clarification of Krampus' by definition Krampus is a counterpart of Santa, a beast who punishes the wicked children and takes them to his lair, as opposed to giving gifts to the good children.
This film is also not to be confused with the self-titled movie scheduled to be released on december 5th, 2015.
The Premise: Over a 12hour period on christmas eve, Krampus will rise and the doctrines of Krampus will begin to unfold on this sleepy mid-western town of Bailey Downs.
The first story has 3 students video documenting, an unsolved double homicide in their school.  The unrested
spirit is closing in on them as they delve deeper into the story. The second story revolves around the on duty investigating officer of that double homicide who is on medical leave, he takes his young family to cut down their first christmas tree.  He decides to enter a restricted property for the better trees and they take home a lot more than what they had bargain for.

The third story involves a husband who takes his family to visit his estranged rich aunt, Ironically his wicked children who drew the first glimpses of Krampus as the demon rises to the surface.  The final story is set in Santa's workshop, an infected Elf turns all the alleged immortal elves into terrifying zombies, which leads to Santa a face to face confrontation with the fully risen Krampus.  With the legendary William Shatner to ease us into the christmas spirit, A Christmas Horror Story is a simmer of suspense, mixed with a twisted sprinkle of surprise that goes down smoothly with Shatner's egg nog.  Its' substitutes the usual horror gore for a tingling winter chill as it goes back and forth between stories. A classic tale to appendage itself to a Black Christmas, if you are fan of that movie.  It doesn't allow itself to dip down as a b level movie, by taking itself seriously to give the viewer a movie with no stench of it being a christmas ham.