Krampus (I) (2015)
Critic Reviews
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Entertainment Weekly Darren Franich
Full credit to director Michael Dougherty (Trick 'r Treat) because this is great-looking movie, filled with freaky creature designs and a just-right mixture of practical effects and CGI.
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Screen International Fionnuala Halligan
Krampus, when he eventually shows his cards, is a dark delight, but this film has more to offer than a single monster - Dougherty has a few puppet side-shows, including elves, a clown which comes right out of Poltergeist's closet and some stuffed animals which are the satanic mirrior images of our Toy Story friends. Ho, ho, ho, indeed.
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Variety Justin Chang
Krampus isn't especially scary, but it generates goodwill nonetheless for treating its home-invasion-for-the-holidays setup with an appreciably straight face.
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58
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Hitfix Drew McWeeny
There are a number of moments where Doughtery introduces something truly interesting and then never returns to it. Yes, the movie is perhaps overstuffed with interesting ideas, but that can be just as frustrating as a film with no good ideas at all.
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The Playlist Nick Schager
The film's lack of terror might be more forgivable had it embraced its more humorous inclinations, but the script's pedestrian liberals-vs.-conservatives, boors-vs.-yuppies conflicts rarely result in anything laugh-out-loud funny.
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The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck
While the violent sequences are very effectively staged, the results are a strange hybrid that doesn't quite work. Lacking the antic, witty humor of something like the similarly conceived Gremlins or the full-out gore of a traditional horror flick, Krampus never really finds it niche.
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TheWrap Robert Abele
Though not exactly a punishment, director Michael Dougherty's tongue-in-cheek monster movie is hardly a celebration, either, despite initial promise that we'd be getting a niftier-than-usual package of subversive comedy and chills to shake up the usual holiday-movie sameness.
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The New York Times A.O. Scott
Occasionally funny, intermittently scary, but mostly hectic and sloppy, Krampus tries very hard to be a different kind of Christmas movie.
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25
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New York Post Sara Stewart
Seeing as Krampus is about the Alpine demon who punishes Christmas a-holes, this is a promising start - but alas, it's all downhill from there, making a murky and humorless hash out of a pretty great piece of
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New York Daily News Stephen Whitty
No one has been too naughty to be subjected to this reindeer poop.
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