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A Christmas Horror Story
Ep. 39
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Continuing the Christmas horror theme, Matt discusses 2015's A Christmas Horror Story, another anthology for the season - but this one has William Shatner.
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- TALE OF THE TAPE
- Directed by Grant Harvey, Steve Hoban, and Brett Sullivan
- Written by Jason Filiatrault, James Kee, Sarah Larsen, Doug Taylor, and Pascal Trottier
- Cinematography by Gavin Smith
- Score by Alex Khaskin
- Distributed by RLJE Films
- Premiered on 23 October 2015
- Runtime of 99 minutes
- RT Critic 83% // RT Audience 50% // Metascore 49 // IMDb 5.8/10 // Letterboxd 2.7/5
- CAST
- William Shatner as DJ Dangerous Dan
- George Buza as Santa Claus / Norman
- Rob Archer as Krampus
- Zoé De Grand Maison as Molly Simon
- Alex Ozerov as Ben
- Shannon Kook as Dylan
- Amy Forsyth as Caprice Bauer
- Jeff Clark as Taylor
- Michelle Nolden as Diane Bauer
- Adrian Holmes as Scott
- Oluniké Adeliyi as Kim Peters
- Orion John as Will
- A.C. Peterson as Big Earl
- Percy Hynes White as Duncan
- Corinne Conley as Aunt Edda
- Julian Richings as Gerhardt
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