Surprise ! Krampus: Movie Analysis

Surprise! Krampus is good! Not great, but certainly better than anyone could have expected. It’s a film that has hysterical commentary, and even uses it to play with the audience. The real meaning of Krampus is to reveal the true meaning of Christmas… but with gore, and monsters and stuff like that. It’s not a perfect film, but the opening certainly is. The film from minute one seems less concerned with actually being scary in the sense that it’s trailers reveal, but more scary in the sense that it wants people to consider how terribly materialistic they are around this time of year. It’s the type of film that will let little things like a christmas tree catching on fire seem to hit so hard, but then turn around and leave you asking “Why