Krampus

20152015
PG-13PG-13
1h 38min

Krampus (2015)

A boy who has a bad Christmas ends up summoning a Christmas demon to his family home.

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A boy who has a bad Christmas accidentally summons a festive demon to his family home.A boy who has a bad Christmas accidentally summons a festive demon to his family home.A boy who has a bad Christmas accidentally summons a festive demon to his family home.

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Awards
- 4 wins & 14 nominations

David Koechner in Krampus (2015)

Luke Hawker and Emjay Anthony in Krampus (2015)

Adam Scott in Krampus (2015)

Toni Collette, Conchata Ferrell, David Koechner, Allison Tolman, and Emjay Anthony in Krampus (2015)

Allison Tolman in Krampus (2015)

Toni Collette, David Koechner, Allison Tolman, and Emjay Anthony in Krampus (2015)

Emjay Anthony and Lolo Owen in Krampus (2015)

David Koechner and Allison Tolman in Krampus (2015)

Michael Dougherty in Krampus (2015)

Emjay Anthony in Krampus (2015)

Toni Collette in Krampus (2015)

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2.5

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6.7

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2.5

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1.6

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Black Christmas

7.2

Black Christmas

When his dysfunctional family clashes over the holidays, young Max (Emjay Anthony) gets disillusioned and turns his back on Christmas. Meanwhile, this lack of festive spirit unleashes the wrath of Krampus: a demonic force of ancient evil intent on punishing non-believers. All hell breaks loose as beloved holiday icons take on a monstrous life of their own, laying siege to the fractured family's home and forcing them to fight for one another if they hope to survive.

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Taglines
- You don't want to be on his list.
Genres
Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
- Rated PG-13 for sequences of horror violence/terror, language and some drug material
Parents guide

Trivia
The film was originally to release on November 25 but was pushed back to December 4 to coincide with the Krampusnacht, a traditional Austrian festival held on December 5 that celebrates the Krampus coming to punish naughty children.

Goofs
After Max talks with his dad after dinner, he is shown reading his letter to Santa. The close up shows he is reading the front page, but when the camera angle changes to over his shoulder he is reading the other side. The angle switches back and he is again reading from the front page.

Quotes
Howard: We should have gone to stay with my brother!
Linda: Your brother lives in a barn!
Howard: Jesus was born in a barn!

Crazy credits
The closing credits feature a Christmas song, "Carol of the Bells", which is twisted to mention the Krampus and warn of his coming.

Alternate versions
(The Naughty Cut) Recently released by Scream Factory on 4K Ultra HD, this alternate version restores key dialogue and scenes that had to be trimmed from the original theatrical release to appease the MPAA.

Connections
Featured in Late Night with Seth Meyers: Viola Davis/Allison Tolman/The Scottos/Emily Armstrong (2015)

Soundtracks
It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas
Written by Meredith Willson
Performed by Bing Crosby
Courtesy of Geffen Records
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises

Top review

7/10

Good Film

Three days before Christmas, a suburban family gets together to celebrate the holidays.

One child named Max wants to continue the family's Christmas traditions, but tensions between members of the family keep everyone from having a good time and the family lose their Christmas spirit, especially Max, who rips up his letter to Santa and throws it to the wind after his cousins read it out at the dinner table Shortly afterwards, a severe blizzard appears and cuts out power in the entire town and Christmas will never be the same.

Now Despite it's Christmas Background this film is anything but cherry. In fact this film is one of the best main stream horror films produced in quit some time.

In this film we get a cross between "Night of the Living Dead" and "Gremlins". If your fans of those films then you will enjoy this movie.

If you have small children please do not let them watch this.

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10

Christmas-Reviewer
Dec 2, 2016

Budget
- $15,000,000 (estimated)
Gross US & Canada
- $42,725,475
Opening weekend US & Canada
- $16,293,325
- Dec 6, 2015
Gross worldwide
- $61,548,707

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Runtime
- 1h 38min
Color
- Color
Sound mix
Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
- 2.39 : 1

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