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If this is the current shape of British filmmaking then God help us. A group of pretty vile characters meet up for Christmas in a isolated house where they encounter a supernatural creature. This is just bad, I struggled through to the end but only just. Neither scary or funny, I was happy when characters were killed off. Don't waste your time.

Good movie to watch for especially the scenes are well made and horror is present in every scene the movie is a holiday horror but good to see.

Christmas Presence (2018) is currently available on Shudder and tells the tale of a group of friends who gets together in the countryside of one of the friends family estates. Little do the friends know a tragic event happened to the friend who owns the house at the estate. When the spirits of those responsible for the tragic events returns, the friends get together becomes a different type of party...

This movie is directed by James Edward Cook (Together) and stars Charlotte Atkinson (Truckers), Elsie Bennett (Hitman 3), Lorna Brown (Les Misérables) and Danny Webb (Aliens 3).

The storyline for this is super slow and it takes forever for anything to happen; however, the characters are well developed. The cast is solid and the dialogue is good. The CGI for the presence is pretty good also but the lack of kills and action is disappointing. I will say I loved the ending.

This movie is a bit disappointing and a below average addition to the genre; however, the ending is clever but the movies so slow I couldn't recommend sitting through the entire film to get to it.

I'd score this a 4/10 and only recommend watching it if you're desperate for a Christmas horror movie to watch.

Just from the title i expected much more. The beginning was exiting but then it got lame. It became like every other horror stories. The plot was great but it felt like the director didn't know how to keep it going and just made it like that. The ending gave us nothing. It left place for so much improvement. Overall it wasn't that bad.

This is a mighty thin sliver of a holiday horror movie. It's set at Christmas, but its Christmasy part amounts to a group of friends getting drunk and modeling newly gifted underwear. And this is the movie's best sequence!

The rest is a sketchy, by-the-numbers mishmash of paganism, mean ghosts, and supernatural mind games, the confluence of which seems to have bored the writer, the director, and the cast. It didn't do much for me either.

I did like the chubby, cheese-making, shotgun-toting lesbian character. This role was well-written and the actress who played it seemed present when she came on screen. Everyone else seemed absent, as if their minds were elsewhere. Given this movie's uninspired plot, I can't much blame them.

All in all, despite having come all the way from the UK, this movie leaves little in its wake. It's as if it never fully arrived in the first place