Nightmare On 34th Street is an anthology consisting of 4 Christmas themed horror shorts...with the overarching theme being that they are being told to a young boy, by a disgruntled Santa Claus- turned killer- on Christmas Eve.
The first story is about the exploits of a gang of serial killers that are dressed up as "Mr. Red", an elf, and snowman...who have kidnapped a pair of siblings, and brainwashed them to join their killing spree, after having killed their parents.
The next tale is about a struggling, coke addicted, ventriloquist, whose puppet is a vulgar snowman named "Mr. White"...and possibly also a killer.
The third story revolves around a mentally ill mother who is egged on by Krampus to kill her kids.
While the last story is about a killer priest- who buries his victims alive- getting his comeuppance.
As far as low budget anthologies go...this one isn't half bad.
Though, the quality of the shorts vary.
With the one about the ventriloquist and his snowman puppet standing out above the rest.
That being said...the writing is better than the execution.
As some might be turned off by the production quality.
But it seems, to me, that they did pretty well with what they had to work with.
Though I felt it could have been a little bit shorter.
That aside, I thought it was entertaining enough...in a very mid kind of way.
3.5 out of 10.
