Saturday, December 11, 2021

Krampus: The Christmas Devil (2013)

Santa has a brother named Krampus and when children are bad, they get put on his list. Unlike the stories where Santa gives coal to bad kids, in this movie, Santa tells Krampus to take care of them.  This means putting them in a sack and throwing them in the river. Yes, that’s right, Santa is involved in murdering children.

When Jeremy was a kid, he was abducted and thrown in a pond in a sack, but managed to get out.  Thirty years later, he’s a cop. He’s noticed a lot of kids disappearing and thinks it’s the same guy. He’s got a map in the basement and missing child posters all over the walls.

When he and two other cops go looking for the killer, Krampus finds them and drags them off. Jeremy is the only one who manages to survive.  His Captain, who previously scoffed at his theory of a serial killer, tells him to hand in his gun and his badge.

Meanwhile based on a throwaway line you’ve forgotten was even mentioned, the criminal who just got out of jail after ten years and vowed revenge on Jeremy, has tracked down his home address and taken his family hostage.  I’m sure everything will be just fine.

This is a strange movie in the sense that most evil Santa movies are about some psycho who dresses as Santa and kills people. But in this movie, Santa is actually a dick.  He colludes with Krampus to dispose of bad children. Plus he threatens a crying child in a cage, telling him he’ll murder him if he ever messes up and is bad again.  What the hell, Santa?


The wall of missing children in Jeremy’s house, in which he’s
pinned up multiple flyers for the same children. Once I noticed
it was like a game to find the double.
Krampus has a list of children he’s put in sacks
Nothing suspicious about this
The news anchor looking at the ceiling as she reports the news
In the history of news, no anchor has ever sat staring at a camera,
while they play an audio statement made by the man in the photo.
I thought this kid was the best actor in the film because it looked
like he was really crying. Then I saw in IMDB that the guy
playing Santa actually did make him cry. What the hell?
The slightly crooked outlet was so distracting




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