History Film / AChristmasHorrorStory

-->'''Krampus''': ''[[spoiler:[[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness NORMAN, STOP!]]]]'' (Santa hesitates) [[spoiler:[[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness Please don't kill me, Norman...]]]]

* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler: Dylan is one of the first characters to be killed.]]

** When we are first introduced to Dan and Norman, Dan tries to get Norman to talk about a "special guest" that will be showing up at the mall later that day; Norman shortly leaves the station afterwards. [[spoiler:The last time we cut back to the radio station, we hear Dan updating the audience about some sort of situation occurring at the mall. Namely, that there is a cop presence, and that people need to ''stay away''.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:The fact that Santa and Norman share the same actor.]]

A Christmas Horror Story is a 2015 anthology horror film directed by Grant Harvey, Steven Hoban, and Brett Sullivan. It premiered on July 20, 2015 at the Fantasia International Film Festival and had a limited theatrical release on October 2, 2015, along with a VOD release. The film is a series of interwoven stories tied together by a framework story featuring Creator/WilliamShatner as a radio DJ.

* AncientArtifact: Caprice thinks that a broken Krampus statue is this. [[spoiler: averted when Aunt Edda states that it was a cheap trinket she picked up at a yard sale and held no power.]]

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: [[spoiler: Molly apparently gets pregnant minutes after conception. It’s unclear whether supernatural forces were behind it, but it can take up to six days for a fertilized egg to form and at least three days for a fertilized egg to make itself at home in the uterus.]]

* BadSanta: Justified, as he does what he has to do to save himself from the zombie elves.... [[spoiler:until it's revealed he's just a Mall Santa gone mad and the Zombie Elves he killed are innocent employees and customers.]]
* TheButlerDidIt: [[spoiler: The Krampus beast that was hunting Caprice and her family was Aunt Edda’s transformed butler Gerhardt.]]

* CreditsGag: According to the credits, “No elves were harmed during the making of this film.”

* DeathOfAChild: Will is kidnapped in the forest [[spoiler: But later rescued alive and well. Duncan is the first victim of TheKrampus however and doesn't come back.]]

* FinalGirl: [[spoiler: Molly and Caprice survive while their friends and family members don’t.]]
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: [[spoiler: Averted. The schools ghost, Grace, died from a botched abortion performed by nuns.]]

* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: And how!

* LockedAwayInAMonastery: Bailey Downs’ high school used to be a convent.
* LockedInARoom: Dylan, Ben, and Molly are trapped in their schools basement.

* MeaningfulName: Edda means “strive for wealth” in Norse and Old English. It’s fitting given that Aunt Edda is stinking rich.

* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Dangerous Dan’s grandson died one year prior.
* PosthumousCharacter: Dylan, Ben, and Molly’s classmates.
* RightThroughHisPants: [[spoiler: Played with. Molly and Ben are clothed when they conceive their child, but the scene clearly shows Molly unzipping Ben’s jeans.]]
* RoadTripPlot: Caprice and her parents and brother drive out of town to visit her Aunt Edda. It’s also a plot point when they dive home sooner than planned.
* RoguishPoacher: For Christmas, Scott steals a tree from Big Earl’s private property.
* SharedUniverse: Exists in the same universe as Film/GingerSnaps.

* TeenPregnancy: [[spoiler: Molly gets pregnant by Ben, and that’s why the ghosts let her leave the school alive.]]
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: [[spoiler: Norman’s hallucinations of Krampus and zombies elves are shown onscreen. Somewhat averted on account of the reveal that Norman was hallucinating in the first place.]]
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Will exhibits some of this after going missing in the woods. [[spoiler: averted because it was a changeling and not really Will.]] Duncan is also implied to be a budding psychopath, based on Caprice’s testimony. She tells her parents that the day their cat disappeared, she saw blood on her pre-adolescent brother's hands.

* VengefulWidow: [[spoiler: Kim has shades of this after Will’s changeling kills Scott.]]

* AdultFear: Young Duncan is taken by Krampus in front of his parents, and Scott and Kim's son, Will, wanders off in the forest and is lost.

* AdultFear: Scott and Kim's son, Will, wanders off in the forest and is lost.

* MockMillionaire: Clarice's dad runs a big company but admits that it went bankrupt a while ago and he's been struggling to keep up appearances out of fear that he'll lose his wife’s love.

* StickyFingers: Clarice's boyfriend applauds her sticky fingers after she steals the keys to the school for Molly and the others. Later PlayedForDrama when she confesses that she constantly steals stuff without knowing why and wonders if that’s why Krampus is attacking her family.

* MeaningfulName: Edda means “strive for wealth” in Norse and Old English. It’s fitting given that Aunt Edda is [[UnclePennybags stinking rich.]]

* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Will exhibits some of this after going missing in the woods. [[spoiler: averted because it was a changeling and not really Will.]] Duncan is also implied to be a budding psychopath, based on Caprice’s testimony.

* OnlyChildSyndrome: Scott and Kim have one son, Will.

* ChekovsGunman: Remember Norman the weatherman at the beginning of the movie? [[spoiler:He's gone insane and thinks he's Santa fending off a horde of zombie elves when really, he's murdering employees and customers alike in the local mall]].

* MaidenAunt: Aunt Edda never married or had kids. She’s also [[UnclePennybags stinking rich.]]

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Aunt Edda, and already bitter and stingy woman, lets it slip that she knew that caprice and her family would be targeted by Krampus, Caprice turns into the new Krampus and presumably kills Aunt Edda.]]

* CanadaEh: Bailey Downs is locates in Ontario, Canada.

* PostHumorousCharacter: Dylan, Ben, and Molly’s classmates.

* {{Narrator}}: Local radio personality Dangerous Dan is this for the events at the mall.

* RoguePoacher: For Christmas, Scott steals a tree from Big Earl’s private property.

* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Will exhibits some of this after going missing in the woods. [[spoiler: averted because it was a changeling and not really Will.]] Duncan is also implied to be a budding psychopath, based on Caprice’s testimony.

* AmateurCast: William Shatner aside, most of the cast members have either no prior acting experience or they’ve been in works that aren’t well known to mainstream audiences.