Christmas at the Kringles

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Christmas at the Kringles

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The story follows the Seversons, a family starting fresh in a quiet suburban neighborhood, whose next-door neighbors, the Kringles, celebrate Christmas year-round. What begins as charming quickly turns unsettling, as Mark and Julie grow concerned about their son's growing attachment to the family. After a heated confrontation, Mark heads next door to bring his family home only to uncover the Kringles' true intentions: to hypnotize and indoctrinate them. What follows is a life-or-death rescue mission, as Mark teams up with a rogue, badass Santa in a high-stakes, action-packed fight to save his family.

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Peter Travers

The Travers Take

5 days ago

1/4

There’s nothing like an early holiday Santa slasher comedy brainlessly splashed with gore if you’re so desperate you can’t find anything else. My reaction? Ho-Ho Hell No!

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Todd Gilchrist

Variety

6 days ago

Visually obnoxious but uninventive, featuring actors giving uninspired performances as characters you don’t care to see live or die, it lacks even an ounce of the joy that its eponymous family claims is their reason for living.

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Derek Smith

Slant Magazine

Oct 19, 2026

1.5/4

The haphazard plotting, world-building, and character construction could have been overcome had the film delivered on its promise of being either amusing or scary.

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Tara McNamara

Common Sense Media

1 day ago

1/5

Christmas at the Kringles makes fun of how far we've come from Christmas movies that offer sincere comfort and joy, but it still uses a lot of viscerally repulsive violence and language to do so.

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Shawn Edwards

Fox 4 Kansas City

2 days ago

0/5

The horror doesn't work, and the comedy doesn't land.

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Abbie Bernstein

Assignment X

2 days ago

B-

Sort of a stocking stuffer, something agreeable that’s neither a lump of coal nor a full gift.

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Safira

7 hrs ago

A boring movie

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Rat Lick

16 hrs ago

the timing was atrocious, it was so bad but the movie is still a lot of fun and was worth it. it's not going to make my favorite Christmas horror list but I'll definitely come back to it in the future around the holiday season.

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Jennifer

1 day ago

It was good. Alittle but more horror in it than I thought. But it was good.

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John

1 day ago

This was my jam. Like a Naked Gun/Airplane-esque spoof of both horror movies and Hallmark movies

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Mirta

1 day ago

The movie was good nothing really bad about it. It sure was crazy & some time funny.

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Ronald

2 days ago

The seating was amazing I invested in AMC after the experience

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Kevin Lewis

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Rachel Bilson

Julie Severson

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Synopsis

The story follows the Seversons, a family starting fresh in a quiet suburban neighborhood, whose next-door neighbors, the Kringles, celebrate Christmas year-round. What begins as charming quickly turns unsettling, as Mark and Julie grow concerned about their son's growing attachment to the family. After a heated confrontation, Mark heads next door to bring his family home only to uncover the Kringles' true intentions: to hypnotize and indoctrinate them. What follows is a life-or-death rescue mission, as Mark teams up with a rogue, badass Santa in a high-stakes, action-packed fight to save his family.

Director: Kevin Lewis
Producer: Andrew Ortenberg, Tom Ortenberg, Liam Finn, Kevin Lewis, Jordan Dykstra
Screenwriter: Zack Imbrogno
Distributor: Briarcliff Entertainment
Production Co: 19th Hole Productions, Astria Studios
Rating: R (Language|Some Strong Bloody Violence|Some Sexual Material)
Genre: Holiday, Horror, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 30, 2026, Wide
Runtime: 1h 38m
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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