All the Creatures Were Stirring

"Have a merry Christmas!"

Director: David Ian McKendry Year: 2018 Runtime: 80 min IMDb: ⭐ 5.1
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When an awkward date on Christmas Eve leads a couple into a strange theater, they're treated to a bizarre and frightening collection of Christmas stories, featuring a wide ensemble of characters doing their best to avoid the horrors of the holidays. From boring office parties and last-minute shopping, to vengeful stalkers and immortal demons, there's plenty out there to fear this holiday season.

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an animal dies
Yes
there's a dead animal
spoiler In one of the segments, a driver hits an animal but, it is clearly a fake animal. It shows the leg of the animal with some blood flowing but, the blood also appears fake
someone is stalked
spoiler POV of an angry animal following a character in the third sketch
someone uses drugs
Yes
there's torture
spoiler Chapter 1 features a Saw-like game where people are trapped in a room full of threats to their lives.
there's genital trauma/mutilation
spoiler Rats attack a man beneath his fly.
there are hangings
spoiler Chapter 3; a Ghost forces a man to see himself hanging in the bathroom. This is a vision, not reality.
someone's throat is mutilated
spoiler At the 16 minute mark a man cuts his own throat and dies
there's shaving/cutting
spoiler At the 16 minute mark a man cuts his own throat and dies
there's cannibalism
spoiler Implied, not shown
someone is stabbed
Yes
someone has a seizure
spoiler Chapter 1; nerve gas causes people to foam and die of a seizure. No tremors are shown.
someone struggles to breathe
spoiler Chapter 1 prominently features nerve gas as a threat. Two characters die from it, others struggle to avoid breathing it.
someone dies
Yes
someone cheats
spoiler At the 14 min. mark, a musical Christmas card plays a sound byte of heavy breathing, and photos of two people kissing in the copier room.
someone is kidnapped
spoiler Alien abduction in the 5th chapter.
there are jump scares
Yes
someone is possessed
spoiler No, but the 5th chapter features (Spoilered creatures) mimicking someone's friends using their likenesses.
there's ghosts
spoiler Chapter 3 is a Christmas Carol tribute with 3 ghostly figures in a man's home.
There's audio gore
spoiler Chapter 1; heard over the phone in the gift exchange room
someone dies by suicide
spoiler At the 16 minute mark a man cuts his own throat and dies I will note that it is not due to mental illness but because of the situation he was in left him not many choices. (As he may have died anyways)
Someone attempts suicide
spoiler At the 16 minute mark a man cuts his own throat and dies
someone self harms
spoiler At about the 33 min. mark, a woman cuts her own hand, amd the hand of another.
there's a claustrophobic scene
spoiler Chapter 3; a man is trapped in his bathroom.
someone has a meltdown
Yes
shaky cam is used
Yes
there's flashing lights or images
Yes
there's screaming
Yes
there is sexual content
spoiler Chapter 1; offscreen, only implied with fully SFW photo blackmail and audio taped into a greeting card. Chapter 3; character makes sexual comments throughout.
a car crashes
spoiler Chapter 4; a man crashes into a deer. The car is drivable afterwards, only minorly damaged.
there's blood/gore
Yes
there's gun violence
Yes

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