Director: Michael Dougherty
Writers: Todd Casey, Michael Dougherty, 1 more credit »
Stars: Adam Scott, Toni Collette, David Koechner
Storyline
When his dysfunctional family clashes over the holidays, young Max (Emjay Anthony) is disillusioned and turns his back on Christmas. Little does he know, this lack of festive spirit has unleashed 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 each other if they hope to survive.
Krampus Reviews
I saw the movie in a sneak preview, so I didn't choose to watch it. But I've been to like 30 - 40 previews before and I've always been the guy who found something good in every single movie (and there were quite bad ones among there), but Krampus is just so totally meaningless and boring it's astonishing.
Well, I even found one good thing: I like the costumes, Krampus looks great and I also like the other creatures. Not to mention I really like the idea - so even two good things - retelling of an old myth is a cool thing and in one point I've to agree with the other reviewer: it focuses on the "real old Christmas we "enjoy" in central Europe". That's fine.
But that's it.
I'll write a short list of cons:
The film starts really, really slow, this may be okay, but the start
last for about 60 minutes... Just nothing happens, nothing bad, nothing funny, nothing ... It's just insignificant.
The characters are not really relatable, they are such stereotypes
and even though the film takes so much time for the introduction, it's not well used.
There are some scenes that are supposed to be creepy, and they are
not per se bad, but those scenes really get the red carpet rolled out for them. You know minutes beforehand that "something" is gonna happen.
To be honest, I laughed a couple of times, and most of the times the
scene was at least a bit funny, but in the context of the film it was always a pitying laughing. While I laughed I was feeling sorry for the film because it really had potential.
But most of all - I can only repeat myself - it's just utterly
insignificant. Not even really boring, or outstandingly bad, the movie made me apathetic.
Honestly the most "Yeah, whatever!" film I ever watched, I could not even get upset.
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