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Essential Christmas · 2015

All Through the House

Name: All Through the House
Released: 2015
Duration: 88 min

31/100Festive FactorWhy it scores 31 ↓

UK certificate 1888 min
Horror

A slasher in a Father Christmas mask, made by people who clearly love the eighties originals and want you to…

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The CineClaus Christmas score

Festive Factor

A different kind of Christmas.

Two paper elves inspect a snowy blue-grey house model with loose porch lights, one glowing upstairs window and a fallen reindeer decoration. — A little magic in the making.

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Christmas in the storyChristmas is only the occasion.10/30

What we ask: Take Christmas out. Does the plot survive? Worth up to 30 of the 100 points.

A world dressed for ChristmasVisibly Christmas for about half.10/20

What we ask: How much of the running time is visibly Christmas? Worth up to 20 of the 100 points.

The little seasonal details5 of the 10 kinds of Christmas icon we count turn up on screen.8/15

What we ask: How many kinds of Christmas icon turn up on screen: trees, lights, snow, carols and the rest? Worth up to 15 of the 100 points.

A Christmas heartHow far the ending rests on goodwill, family and belief: not at all.0/20

What we ask: Does the ending depend on what Christmas means: goodwill, family, redemption, belief? Worth up to 20 of the 100 points.

A returning traditionNiche at Christmas (under 25,000).3/15

What we ask: Is it actually watched at Christmas in the UK? Worth up to 15 of the 100 points.

17/100

Cosiness Rating Rating

Chilly in tone. Genuinely frightening. An unsettled ending.

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Festive Factor measures how Christmassy a film is. Five ingredients add up to 100: story (30), setting (20), seasonal details (15), emotional heart (20) and returning tradition (15).

Cosiness is a separate score for warmth of tone, sense of safety, visual comfort, a reassuring ending and how easily you can settle into it.

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The story

About All Through the House

Rachel Kimmel comes home for Christmas to the grandmother who raised her and agrees to help the reclusive Mrs Garrett next door decorate her house. While she does, a killer in a Father Christmas mask works his way around the neighbourhood, and by Christmas Eve Rachel and two friends are cornered in the Garrett house with him. The answer to who he is reaches back into Rachel's own childhood. An American indie slasher, written and directed by Todd Nunes, that plays the psycho-Santa formula straight and gory.

The CineClaus verdict

A slasher in a Father Christmas mask, made by people who clearly love the eighties originals and want you to know it.

The kills are inventive and the practical effects are strong, but the middle stretch drags and the neighbourhood is thin on actual Christmas once the opening snowball dare is over. What lifts it is the house next door, full of dressed mannequins and too many trees, and an ending that turns the story round on itself.

Strictly for gore fans who want their December with blood on the tinsel.

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