{"id":41799,"date":"2023-11-19T22:04:24","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T03:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=41799"},"modified":"2023-11-19T22:04:24","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T03:04:24","slug":"nightmare-on-34th-street-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/19\/nightmare-on-34th-street-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Nightmare on 34th Street (2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Nightmareon34thStreet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Nightmareon34thStreet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"629\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Nightmareon34thStreet.jpg 629w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Nightmareon34thStreet-300x138.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Nightmareon34thStreet-2x1.jpg 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\" \/><\/a>Like clockwork every year a studio releases a Christmas themed anthology for the masses, and almost always it\u2019s a big letdown. It\u2019s not really enough to inject the whole Christmas aesthetic. A genuinely scary story helps, too. \u201cNightmare on 34<sup>th<\/sup> Street\u201d is a rambling, often nonsensical, unscary Christmas anthology movie that is literally all over the place. It re-uses actors, garners a whole cast that spend their time obviously reading from cue cards off screen, and director Crow doubles down a shoddy editing job that makes his film more confusing and jarring than scary.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Borrowing heavily from \u201cAnd all Through the House\u201d from \u201cTales from the Crypt,\u201d a young boy is visited by a maniac in a Santa suit that he is convinced is Santa. Rather than murder the youngster, the maniac regales him with a foursome of goofy horror tales, if only to torment him, I guess. The first story is a distasteful and silly take on Krampus involving a single mom whose husband abandoned her and their children on Christmas. As she struggles to make ends meet, they\u2019re visited by Krampus who seems to delight in terrorizing them. The segment is a rambling, and distasteful take on mental illness.<\/p>\n<p>The second segment involves a young boy with a love for horror movies whose babysitter invites his friends over for assorted shenanigans. Before long they\u2019re being slaughtered by a masked assailant who might be the boy\u2019s long dead older brother. It\u2019s another groaner that fails to deliver in scares, and feels like a silly take on the first segment in \u201cTrick r Treat.\u201d The third segment involves a psychotic group of carolers that torment an old priest on Christmas night, and\u2014well, there\u2019s something about the anti-Christ, and a teenage girl. The finale involves the origin of our maniacal Santa who goes insane after being fired by a corporation.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re in the market for a good holiday themed scare fest, \u201cNightmare on 34<sup>th<\/sup> Street\u201d is not the Christmas anthology you\u2019re looking for. It\u2019s tepid, it\u2019s tedious and even at seventy five minutes, it overstays its welcome.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Available on Digital on December 5<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like clockwork every year a studio releases a Christmas themed anthology for the masses, and almost always it\u2019s a big letdown. It\u2019s not really enough to inject the whole Christmas aesthetic. A genuinely scary story helps, too. \u201cNightmare on 34th Street\u201d is a rambling, often nonsensical, unscary Christmas anthology movie that is literally all over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[103,200,367,477,501,1087],"class_list":["post-41799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-anthology","tag-christmas","tag-foreign","tag-horror","tag-indie-film","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41801,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41799\/revisions\/41801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}