All The Creatures Were Stirring (2018) **

Watching All The Creatures Were Stirring (2018) is like watching a friend's movie, where you're really happy that they created something more than you're actually enjoying the movie. That might sound harsh, and Creatures is not without some laughs and fun, but production design is virtually non-existent, its cinematography is completely unremarkable, and it's pretty cheesy. There's lots of familiar actors in this Christmas horror anthology (including many Mad Men (2007–2015) alumni and stars of indie genre flicks) but their presence doesn't elevate a film that clearly needed rewrites, a better vision, stronger editing, and a larger budget.