The Christmas horror movie A Creature Was Stirring is on the way this holiday season from Well Go USA Entertainment, and we’ve got the trailer for you today.

Chrissy Metz (“This Is Us”) stars alongside Scout Taylor-Compton (Halloween) in the film, which comes to theaters December 8 and VOD outlets on December 12.

A Creature Was Stirring has been rated “R” for “Violence, bloody images, drug content, language and some sexual references.”

Watch the trailer below, which goes heavy on the colorful Christmas lighting and the practical creature feature mayhem. Two things we always love to see in our Christmas Horror.

A Creature Was Stirring “follows the overprotective mother and professional nurse Faith (Metz), who keeps her teenage daughter (Annalise Basso) locked securely in her room and subjected to constant methadone injections, their only means of sustaining a delicately balanced fever state that keeps a mysterious and terrifying affliction at bay.

“However, when a pair of strangers (Scout Taylor-Compton and Connor Paolo) breaks into the home while seeking shelter from the Christmas blizzard, they quickly discover that this mother-daughter relationship stretches the limits of both dysfunction and reality, and that the women are hiding a terrible secret — specifically, the presence of a malevolent houseguest who won’t be content to lurk in the shadows much longer.”

Damien LeVeck (The Cleansing Hour) directed the film.

Shannon Wells wrote the script for A Creature Was Stirring.

“For genre fans, this film has it all: a spectacular practical monster, unexpected twists and turns, and the phenomenal talent of Chrissy Metz in a kind of performance no one has ever seen from her before,” said LeVeck. “All of these elements are further amplified by the incredible abilities of Annalise, Scout and Connor, who are already much beloved mainstays of the horror community. Fans will relish each actors’ dark transformation for this twisted tale, which—paired with Tate Steinsiek‘s unparalleled ability to bring nightmares to life on-screen—elevates this film beyond even my wildest expectations.”

“The story itself conjures up this disturbing portrayal of how guilt, dark secrets, personal vices and mental illness can combine, fester, and eventually end up eating you alive—perhaps even literally,” added Well Go’s Pfardrescher. “Horror fans especially will be thrilled by the homage paid to classic creature features, particularly in the use of only practical effects to bring this nightmarish vision to life onscreen.”