Krampus

From the director of Trick 'r Treat...

The Krampus Renaissance is hitting hard. I think there are two other movies coming out centered on the same subject.

I do love Trick 'R Treat, and I think the Krampus is an underused concept, so I'll have to keep an eye out for this one.

I just hope it won't be a generic slasher film.

Eh...I always get very, very nervous when movie makers plunder my cultural heritage.

Yeah I would prefer this movie taking place in the Krampus's actual home turf (Northern Europe, basically), but I'm not very bothered by his geographical shift. It does fit with the motif of Santa's Evil Counterpart. If Santa has worldwide operations, why shouldn't Krampus?

Speaking of which, this movie should totally end with the protagonist kid inevitably regaining his faith in Christmas and thus causing St. Nicholas to dramatically emerge from the snowstorm, casting magic iron chains to bind Krampus and his helpers and dragging them to his sleigh while cackling maniacally.

DBZ-esque battle between Santa and Krampus all the way. Santa wins of course.

Then Krampus reveals that he's not using 100% of his power and Santa transforms into a blond spikey haired Super Santa.

edited 11th Sep '15 2:58:04 PM by Eagal

This one got a PG-13 rating.

I wonder if they're going to smash it.

Smash the Krampus, Hunt the Wumpus?

I just saw it. It's no Trick 'r Treat, but it's a pretty good time.

Forecast to come in third this weekend.

Dougherty said he was forced to rush it a bit, but he's still satisfied with the result. At least it allows him now to make and fully focus on Trick 'r Treat 2.

edited 4th Dec '15 12:53:31 AM by TAPETRVE

In the immortal words of Luna Lovegood, exceptionally ordinary. The scares, laughs, and scary laughs were all very well done, and the monster designs were excellent - I liked that they were all practical effects - but the family bonding stuff was generic and dull. I also could not figure out the ending for the life of me.

And the movie committed an unforgivable sin: having a fight between a bulldog and a giant evil jack-in-the-box... and having it take place entirely offscreen.

Generally the film seems questionably tame even for a PG-13 rating. I wonder if there's some less sanitised unrated shit following on home media.

Favorite scene was the Krampus catching the fat kid on a hook with a gingerbread man as bait.

My favorite sequence was the attic attack.

So, uh, the ending...my takeaway was just that Krampus was keeping an eye on them. Others interpreted it in a darker way.

Like I said I had no idea what to make of it. It seemed like several layers of reality stacked on top of one another, almost.

Also, what was with the death of the delivery guy? Did Krampus kill him? If so, why? He was specifically targeting that family. If Krampus didn't kill him, what did?

edited 5th Dec '15 8:45:00 PM by HamburgerTime

I thought this was supposed to be a parody, honestly. Adam Scott being in it, the ham-fisted family feud in the style of Home Alone, or the scene in the commercial where the chubby kid falls for the Schmuck Bait hanging in the chimney hearth.

Well, there's certainly some willy-wonkiness going on there .

It's a horror-comedy.

By the way, what happened to everyone else in the neighborhood, like the boyfriend? Were they killed by Krampus? Why did he kill them if he was just trying to punish the family? Why did he leave the deliveryman alive, then kill him later?

My theory: Nothing after the blizzard starts is "real," so to speak. Krampus transported them to a Pocket Dimension (inside the snowglobe?) where nobody else existed but that otherwise resembled their neighborhood to teach them a lesson. The delivery guy also wasn't real; Krampus created him, then discarded him when he'd served his purpose.

Is it as good as the Krampus-themed episode of American Dad? Because I loved that stuff.

I can't help but think of Kringus when I see the title for this film.

It's a Krappus.

I genuinely cannot fathom how you even found this thread to necro it for that, let alone why.