It's fun, it's scary, it has something for every horror fan out there from the casual fan who will love the accessibility of the stories to the more hardcore nerdy horror fan who will recognize the name of Bailey Downs from the get go.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 19, 2020

Fun, festive, gory and consistently creepy, A Christmas Horror Story takes five separate, and very enjoyable, stabs at creating a new mythology for the festive season.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Oct 2, 2019

Watching horror movies at Christmas should be mandatory and the cheesier the better. A Christmas Horror Story has plenty of fun to serve, along with a lot of tongue-in-cheek humour.

| May 17, 2019

A Christmas Horror Story is made with craft and it has a properly unsettling effect.

| Original Score: B | Dec 7, 2018

Unlike those piles of beautifully wrapped presents from our childhoods, this festive horror delivers considerably more than it promises.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 30, 2018

While A Christmas Horror Story doesn't have the qualities of a big theatrical release, like Trick 'r Treat, it's glossy enough to bring joy to those however they end up seeing it.

| Apr 14, 2017

...framed by a story involving William Shatner (born in Montreal) doing what he does best, self-aware parody....

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 10, 2015

The collective of Grant Harvey, Steven Hoban and Brett Sullivan provides unique concepts on basic Christmas themes.

| Dec 8, 2015

Audiences who prefer their holidays with a dose of darkness and foreboding to offset the season's syrupy mirth should really take to "A Christmas Horror Story."

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 23, 2015

This smart, zippy, bloody frightster is a Canadian-made gift that will continue to give, in the best possible ho-ho-ho horror way.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 23, 2015

Spooky, 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.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 21, 2015

...unfortunately the film's most admirable innovation doubles as its greatest problem since all four of the featured stories vary wildly in terms of tone and quality.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Oct 7, 2015

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.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 2, 2015

Considering 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.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 2, 2015

It's a mixed bag of supernatural terror that gains momentum as its loosely connected quartet of scenarios unfolds.

| Oct 2, 2015

Perfect viewing for either Christmas or Halloween, A Christmas Horror Story is easily one of the best Christmas-themed horror movies in recent memory, ranking up there with foreign fare Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale and Saint Nick.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 1, 2015

The picture can be wholly recommended only to not-too-demanding horror junkies who've been successfully nurturing their inner adolescents since the late 1970s.

| Oct 1, 2015

While not all the tales come alive, more hit than miss, bringing gore and menace in October, but reveling in the iconography of December.

| Original Score: B | Sep 30, 2015

Though they aren't particularly original or sophisticated, all five narrative panels are relative slow-burners that take their time establishing premise and character before delivering competent gotcha scares - or bloody splatstick ...

| Sep 30, 2015

The anthology is a mixed stocking; if you reach inside, something's likely to grab you.

| Sep 29, 2015