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Kid gets mad at his family because they don't have the proper Christmas spirit. So he tears up his letter to Santa, and for some reason that summons Krampus.

Krampus is the Grinch, but he kills people.

This movie pretty much sucked as a holiday movie and a horror. Zero interesting kills and all happen off screen anyway. The monsters are all just mutated toys, although some of the elf masks are awesome.

The ending is pretty amazing though. Not because it's well done. No, it's predictable and you'll know it's coming. No, it's amazing because it takes an earlier scene in the movie and makes the star of that scene look like a gigantic dumb fuck. Picture the U.S.S. Indianapolis scene from Jaws. Now imagine if Shaw realized that he had a cork in his pocket and could have prevented the whole thing from happening.

Skip it.

The "American Dad" Krampus is better.

I was thinking about this movie on the way to work, and I realized it's not a horror movie. It's a fucking Christmas movie.

All the marketing wants you to think it's a horror movie, and they try to give you scares, but the completely lack of gore, never showing a single kill on screen, the ending, etc. It all adds up to them hoping this would get play every year at Christmas.

I don't hold that line of thinking against them, but know your market. Who's going to air this movie? Nobody. Too scary for young kids, not scary enough for adults, and not enough humor.

They should have gone all the way on the gore and killing. Then I'll bet they'd get aired every year. Not on NBC, but somewhere on cable.