Krampus

A future Christmas classic, but one that is so audience-friendly that it will play at 7pm after Home Alone. Krampus is lively and has a likeable and entertaining cast, especially the boorish David Koechner who steals up all the jokes for himself and gets away with it. The atmosphere is properly Christmassy, and quite dense by the end, and the varied selection of villains is surprising, the great imagination of the people behind this movie cannot be denied, even if they are largely Christmas candy and toys, and Krampus himself, who is more like a wrinkly grandfather, is a nevertheless a successful and original creation. The film is more of a comedy and fairytale than horror, the characters do die quite often, but due to the rating we don't get to see gore and the scares are actually absent as well, they scares don't really work out too well, but it's a nice oldschool fun film to watch with honest practical effects. Home Alone crossed with Gremlins! Story 5/10, Atmosphere 7/10, Gore 0/10, Visuals 7/10, Action 5/10, Suspense 7/10, Humor 7/10. Entertainment 7/10. 75%. (12/19/2015)

Krampus isn’t what I was dreaming of when the project was announced, but even the way it is, it’s not able to reach to the TOP. Which doesn’t mean that it is a bad movie. This time, Dougherty has done with Christmas the same he did a couple of years ago with Halloween, a nice and atmospheric horror comedy, where the humour, as well as the fear and the tension are effective in each of the sequences. But it’s just not completely outstanding in any way. If it’d stayed only with Krampus and his elves, it would have been better, IMHO. The living gifts are more or less cool, but the bloody living gingerbread men are already too much. And I was also surprised with how fast everything ends. In a only couple of minutes about half the characters are reduced in uninteresting ways, to the point that I felt as if the creators already wanted to get rid of them, but didn’t feel like writing another twenty minutes of script. 70% and I would love to see a gritty German Alpine prequel. (12/24/2015)

If Krampus was even more comedic, and I don't care if in the black-humorous style of the skirmish in the attic or the Griswold Christmas break style in which it began, I'd like it even more. Even so, from my point of view, it is a very pleasant surprise, which is able to entertain and tantalize, but it could do without those few annoying, more serious minutes promoting family values. I was probably most pleased by the special effects - with the exception of bloodthirsty gingerbread, not too much digital magic is happening here, but rather good old-fashioned puppets and animatronics. And it all looks great! (02/18/2018)

I’d been looking forward to Krampus. The users here turned it into a legendary movie, which in the future will be an inseparable part of Christmas; they kept putting it into the same rank as Home Alone. By the way, the only thing this movie has in common with Home Alone is a couple of melodies in the score. Other than that, it’s worlds apart. You see Krampus alternates between a fairy-tale atmosphere and a regular horror movie in the vein of Nightmare on Elm Street. Nevertheless, I do admit that the film had a couple of really interesting moments. For instance, the opening scene in the mall, which is totally awesome or the cartoon part, which tells the story of the grandma, who had met Krampus when she was little. By the way, it looked almost as if it was made by Tim Burton himself. The rest is a classical slasher movie, where you’re actually not sure whether it’s a comedy (the constantly drunk grandma and her catchphrases, or the three gingerbread guys who are alive) or a horror movie (Krampus, who isn’t actually seen much in this one, and his elven minions). (12/15/2015)

Christmas home invasion creature feature black comedy with an excellent snowy backdrop. Dougherty fuses German folklore and American genre traditions into a sufficiently entertaining mix in which children are devoured and the titular devil doesn't grow tiresome thanks to a late entry. Formal finesse, good actors and unobtrusive film references are sometimes enough to satisfy, especially at Christmas. 70 % (12/16/2022)