Directed by : Michael Dougherty
Written by : Todd Casey, Michael Dougherty, Zach Shields
Starring : Adam Scott, David Koechner, Toni Collette, Allison Tolman, Emjay Anthony, Krista Stadler
Release Date : December 2, 2015
I'm a little torn about this movie. There isn't a lot of films revolving around the legend of Krampus, so I appreciated that. At the same time, it borrows a little too much on the conventional horror movie tropes, that it also feels like it's a seen-that-before affair. Simply put, there are things I really like and things I didn't like about this movie.
Let's go with those positives. The creature work here is fantastic! From Krampus himself to his demonic looking minions are all great to look at; in that horror movie kinda way. A lot of the scenes involving those monsters were also done really well, with some particular memorable moments that were fun to see play out. There is also a flashback sequence that I thought was the highlight of the whole movie. This movie has some good ideas worth checking out, and I liked that aspect of it.
As for the negatives. Well, I didn't really care much for the characters. Although I understand that it was the point for a lot of them to be these obnoxious human beings, it didn't exactly help me feel any kind of tension on whether they live or die in the story. There are admittedly some nice surprising deaths, but either way I was rooting for the monsters more than I was the family. That's probably not what I'm suppose to feel about the story. Oh, and it wasn't really great as a scary movie either, so there's that too.
Maybe my standards were too high for "Krampus" but I'm just disappointed that all the good elements that this movie introduces are ultimately countered by annoying factors that I just did not enjoy seeing.
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