Line #15 Film/AChristmasHorrorStory


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Merry &^&%$£& Christmas!]]
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4	''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.
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7	!!Jolly Xmas Tropes present in this movie:
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9	* 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.]]
10	* {{Anthology}}: There are four intertwining stories presented onscreen.
11	* 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.]]
12	* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Aunt Edda, an 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.]]
13	* 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 MallSanta gone mad and the zombie elves he killed are innocent employees and customers.]]
14	* TheButlerDidIt: [[spoiler: The Krampus beast that was hunting Caprice and her family was Aunt Edda's transformed butler Gerhardt.]]
15	* ChangelingTale: [[spoiler: Will is replaced by a changeling.]]
16	* ChekhovsGunman: 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]].
17	* CreditsGag: According to the credits, "No elves were harmed during the making of this film."
18	* CruelTwistEnding: [[spoiler:The story about Santa fighting zombie elves led by Krampus turns out to just be the hallucinations of the weatherman, Norman, who went on a rampage at the toy drive, killing everyone in the mall before being shot by the police]].
19	%%* CrusadingWidow: [[spoiler: Kim has shades of this after Will’s changeling kills Scott.]]
20	* DeathOfAChild: Will is kidnapped in the forest [[spoiler: but is later rescued alive and well. Duncan is the first victim of TheKrampus, however, and doesn't come back.]]
21	* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: [[spoiler: Molly, possessed by Grace, does this to Ben. Neither of them consented to the act.]]
22	* EstablishingCharacterMoment: When we are first introduced to Stormin' Norman, he is completely silent, and stonewalling Dangerous Dan's attempts at getting him involved in the radio broadcast. After one too many instances of prodding, Norman decides to calmly grab a pad and a marker, and gives Dan a present:
23	-->'''Norman''': (slams the message [[TranquilFury "FUCK CHRISTMAS"]] against Dan's glass window)
24	* {{Foreshadowing}}:
25	** [[spoiler:The fact that Santa and Norman share the same actor.]]
26	** 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:During the framing device of Dan's radio broadcast, we eventually learn about some sort of situation occurring at the mall, and that people need to ''stay away''.]]
27	** Caprice' assertion that her aunt was fearful suddenly makes more sense when it's revealed that her brother is a psychopath.
28	* FinalGirl: [[spoiler: Molly and Caprice survive while their friends and family members don't.]]
29	* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: [[spoiler: Averted. The school's ghost, Grace, died from a botched abortion performed by nuns.]]
30	* TheHermit: Big Earl lives alone in a cabin in the woods.
31	* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Diane sacrifices herself to save Caprice.]]
32	* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: As you can tell by the title, the movie and all its horror takes place on Christmas Eve.
33	* HumanoidAbomination: The Krampus. Also overlaps with HornedHumanoid.
34	* LockedAwayInAMonastery: Bailey Downs' high school used to be a convent.
35	* LockedInARoom: Dylan, Ben, and Molly are trapped in their school's basement.
36	* MaidenAunt: Aunt Edda never married or had kids.
37	* MeaningfulName: Edda means "strive for wealth" in Norse and Old English. It's fitting given that Aunt Edda is stinking rich.
38	* MissingChild: 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.
39	* MockMillionaire: Caprice'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.
40	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Once Norman snaps out of it, it slowly dawns on him how he [[GoingPostal caused a massacre at the mall]].]]
41	* {{Narrator}}: Local radio personality Dangerous Dan is this for the events at the mall. He also overlaps with LargeHamRadio.
42	* OnceMoreWithClarity: [[spoiler:Once [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness the twist]] is revealed, we have Norman flashing back to "Santa's" earlier scenes in the movie, fully revealing he had snapped and gone through a rampage at the mall.]]
43	* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Dangerous Dan's grandson died one year prior.
44	* PosthumousCharacter: Dylan, Ben, and Molly's classmates.
45	* RightThroughHisPants: [[spoiler: Played with. Molly and Ben are clothed when they conceive their child, but the scene clearly shows Molly unzipping Ben's jeans.]]
46	* RoadTripPlot: Caprice and her parents and brother drive out of town to visit her Aunt Edda. It's also a plot point when they drive home sooner than planned.
47	* RoguishPoacher: For Christmas, Scott steals a tree from Big Earl's private property.
48	* SharedUniverse: Exists in the same universe as ''Film/GingerSnaps'' and ''Series/OrphanBlack'', taking place in the same town.
49	* [[ShellShockedVeteran Shell Shocked Policeman]]: Scott was employed as a police officer, but finding some dead teens in the school basement one year prior left him so traumatized he had to take time off from the force.
50	* StickyFingers: Caprice'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.
51	* TeenPregnancy: [[spoiler: Molly gets pregnant by Ben, and that's why the ghost of Grace lets her leave the school alive, as she wanted someone to carry the child she never got to have.]]
52	* 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.]]
53	* 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.
54	* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler: Dylan is one of the first characters to be killed.]]
55	* WhamLine: Just as Santa is about to deliver the killing blow to Krampus, one line of dialogue winds up drastically changing what this plotline was really about:
56	-->'''Krampus''': ''[[spoiler:[[TomatoSurprise NORMAN, STOP!]]]]'' (Santa hesitates) [[spoiler:[[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness Please don't kill me, Norman...]]]]
57	-->'''Santa''': (confused) [[spoiler:[[SanitySlippage "Norman"? ...who's Norman?]]]]
58	** WhamShot: This is then swiftly followed by Krampus [[spoiler:being replaced by a man wearing reindeer antlers, cowering and bloodied]]:

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