Truly Dreadful Film

How sad is this?

Fresh and Exciting

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

I really enjoyed this film. At first I wasn't sure how I should rate Krampus, but after thinking about it, I realized it was pretty damn good. A Christmas Horror hybrid you expect the worst, but this film has one hell of a cast and I thoroughly enjoyed my viewings of it. I may have to watch it again come Christmas time.

The usual Christmas movie will do its utmost best to make Christmas out as this time of magic, family unity and general good cheer. This movie does the exact opposite and does it well enough that I hope an Easter movie is on the director's schedule for future viewing. Future planning aside,The movie tells the story of a suburban family gathered together for Christmas celebration. There is a tiny problem though - these people do not like each other. At all. All this stepping on toes results in desperate measures taken by the family's son, Max, and the rest os history - a bloody one at that.If you are looking for a genuinely good horror Christmas movie, this here is it. You won't regret giving it a chance.

. . . says David Koechner as he's being attacked by evil Christmas cookies with a nail gun. It's a great line in a demented scene, and that's the kind of thing I was hoping this movie would have more of. It's seldom that I see a movie that leaves me unaffected, but "Krampus" fits that mold. It's pitched as a horror comedy, but it doesn't do either very well. It's passable.It's those opening scenes that held promise. The department store melee set to Christmas music; heavy-handed, but entertaining enough. 5/10

Movie Review: "Krampus" (2015)The opening as commercial as can be with an army of consumers storming a department store for holiday season shopping, giving in to the madness, the money spending, the elbow practice of the fastest to catch the best of pieces to bring home, where the chaos continues in the everybody's family who seek the pleasant evening with a roaring fire inside and snow-covered exteriors of cushioned silence in quiet town neighborhood, when 10-year-old Max, grandmother's darling, tears up his wish list to throw out the window, a blizzard rises with nowhere to run but besieging the living room, which comes eventually invaded by the shadow of "Sankt Nikolaus" and his dark-side turned elves to open the gates of the underworld. Writer Michael Dougherty also produces and directs this fairly-innocent appearing PG-13 horror-comedy for Universal and Legendary Pictures to bring paced motion picture entertainment to the screen, which especially in the last 20 minutes unfolds his final strokes of conviction of not just being an one-time viewing experience, but a vehicle for an any-given-time escapology recipe from menacing stresses of an overloaded day.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)