Trivia / Krampus

• Dueling Movies: While the Krampus legend is of course very old in itself, it was only very recently that his stock for horror movies managed to get a lot more movies being made with him in them. This one clearly being the highest profile of this seemingly out of nowhere Krampus surge.
• Follow the Leader: The film seemingly kicked off a period of "Krampusploitation" with releases like Krampus: The Reckoning, Krampus Unleashed, Mother Krampus (which is actually about a similar entity known as Perchta) and Krampus: The Devil Returns (while a sequel to a 2013 film that was apart of that surge mentioned above, these two clearly helped arrive here with the help of this film maybe even more than the movie they are sequels to).
• Meaningful Release Date: The movie came out on December 4th, one day before the celebrations for Krampusnacht begin.
• Not Screened for Critics: The film was subject to this, as there was a review embargo that only let up the Thursday before it came out. However, it turned out that critics largely think that the film is fine.
• Real-Life Relative: Cousins Beth and Stevie are played by sisters Stephanie and Lolo Owen, respectively.
• Sleeper Hit: Krampus is a film with no big stars (possibly excepting Toni Collette, Adam Scott and David Koechner), a very niche aesthetic, made by a director whose last film went direct-to-DVD and came out on a historically slow weekend two weeks before The Force Awakens released. Despite this, the film grossed $16 million in its opening weekend and landed at #2 on the box office, beating films such as Creed and The Good Dinosaur.
• Uncredited Role: Gideon Emery's website revealed he was Krampus while Adam McArthur, Alexander Polinsky, Jon Bailey, David W Collins and Eric Lopez were revealed by Jon Bailey as the voices of the Dark Elves on Twitter a few days before the film was released. The thing under the snow's voice actor wasn't credited either.