When Spooky Season Collides with the Holidays in Christmas at the Kringles

Perhaps the ultimate in “Christmas creep” is twinkly, glittering festivity oozing backward through the calendar to take over a cheesy October splatter flick. That’s what we get for Halloween weekend this year: Christmas at the Kringles , a gruesome, broadly played horror comedy about too much Yuletide merriment. The story seems, initially, like a conflict between urban cool and suburban square. Mark (Ron Livingston of Office Space ) is moving, very reluctantly, from “the city” to the