{"id":23136,"date":"2015-09-03T15:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T21:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=23136"},"modified":"2015-09-03T15:00:50","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T21:00:50","slug":"shatner-slashes-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/shatner-slashes-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Shatner Slashes Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Christmas<\/a> ghost story has come a long way since Dickens. Back then it was scary enough just to have Scrooge visited by three ghosts. <\/p>\n

But how about a Christmas<\/a> tale where the ghosts have a bit more of an edge to them? That’s the Christmas<\/a> wish of William Shatner — yes, of Captain Kirk fame. <\/p>\n

He is riding point on a new film coming out this year called A Christmas<\/a> Horror Story<\/em>. We told you about it months ago<\/strong><\/a> but today they posted an extended trailer with lots of juicy tidbits, so to speak:<\/p>\n

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The story in this movie is told by Shatner and it is very loosely based on the ancient and somewhat mysterious (and definitely misunderstood<\/strong><\/a>) legend of Krampus. <\/p>\n

But don’t be fooled. This film does not represent the real Santa<\/a>, the real elves or even the real Krampus. Every character in this movie is as fake as the blood it spills. <\/p>\n

So don’t take it too serious. It is just one of several Christmas-themed or even Krampus-themed productions that aim to twist Christmas<\/a> movies away from being about love<\/a> and hope and snowmen to having a little more kick to it. <\/p>\n

We’re not pretending it is going to put anyone in a cheery mood. <\/p>\n

Look for it on October 2nd. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Christmas ghost story has come a long way since Dickens. Back then it was scary enough just to have Scrooge visited by three ghosts. But how about a Christmas tale where the ghosts have a bit more of an edge to them? That’s the Christmas wish of William Shatner — yes, of Captain Kirk […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","iawp_total_views":10,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,25],"tags":[226],"class_list":["post-23136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-features","category-christmas-movies","tag-new-christmas-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}