Christmas at the Kringles
A family trying to start over in a quiet suburb discovers that the cheerful neighbors who celebrate Christmas all year are actually a cult with plans to make them permanent members. Christmas at the Kringles, directed by Kevin Lewis of Willy's Wonderland, mixes holiday comedy with bloody horror. Ron Livingston plays Mark Severson, a workaholic stock trader who moves his wife Julie, played by Rachel Bilson, and their young son Bobby to a small town to hold the family together. They arrive a week before Christmas and soon meet Nick and Carol Kringle, played by Thomas Lennon and Arden Myrin, whose house never stops celebrating. A Christmas Eve dinner wins over the skeptical Mark, and the evening turns out to be fun. Weeks later the decorations are still up, and Bobby is spending more and more time next door. Julie, lonely while Mark buries himself in work, keeps accepting the Kringles' invi