Krampus is a 2015 American Christmas comedy horror film based on the eponymous character from Austro-Bavarian folklore. The film stars Adam Scott, Toni Collette, David Koechner, Allison Tolman, Conchata Ferrell, Emjay Anthony, Stefania LaVie Owen, Lolo Owen, Queenie Samuel, Maverick Flack, Sage Hunefeld, and Krista Stadler. In the film, a dysfunctional family squabbling causes a young boy to lose his festive spirit. Doing so unleashes the wrath of Krampus, a fearsome, horned demonic beast in ancient European folklore.
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Krampus is a 2015 American Christmas comedy horror film based on the eponymous character from Austro-Bavarian folklore. The film stars Adam Scott, Toni Collette, David Koechner, Allison Tolman, Conchata Ferrell, Emjay Anthony, Stefania LaVie Owen, Lolo Owen, Queenie Samuel, Maverick Flack, Sage Hunefeld, and Krista Stadler. In the film, a dysfunctional family squabbling causes a young boy to lose his festive spirit. Doing so unleashes the wrath of Krampus, a fearsome, horned demonic beast in ancient European folklore who punishes naughty children at Christmastime. It received positive reviews with many critics praising Scott and Collette’s performances, the horror elements, and humor while criticism was aimed for it’s tone, pacing, and final twist ending. The film had grossed over USD 61 million, against a USD 15 million budget, and was released in the U.S.
on December 4, 2015 by Universal Pictures. The concept for the film began in 2011, when Michael Dougherty was planning to make a Christmas-themed horror film, with him and Zach Shields writing the screenplay. Production on the movie began in 2014, with Dougherty directing and writing a new screenplay with Shields and Casey. Principal photography on the film started on March 12, 2015 and wrapped in May 2015, with Weta Workshop making the Creature effects. The family must band together to save one another from a monstrous fate in the film’s final scene, which is set in the middle of a snowstorm in the town of Englewood, New Jersey. The movie was released to positive reviews, with critics praising the performances of Scott, Collette and KoeChner, as well as the final twist. It has grossed more than $61 million in the United States.
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