Horror fans it's been about three weeks since I last reviewed a straight up horror movie and well with Christmas right around the corner I thought it would be fun to try and tie Christmas and horror together. Well I think i've found the perfect film one that is honestly a little kid friendly so you can have it on over the Christmas and one that honestly has alot of good scares and so here is my review of the 2015 film "Krampus" enjoy.
The plot of the film is Max a kid who still believes in Santa looses his christmas spirit after an argument with one of his relatives turns violent and so without knowing it Max unleashes Krampus a demon who punishes naughty or badly behaved children and so the family have to fight for there lives and regain their christmas spirit. Plot wise this film is great because you have a great story that is not only well told but one where you cannot predict where it's going and honestly makes the film alot of fun to watch since your honestly interested in finding out where the story is heading which no matter when genre the film is is always a good thing.
Starring in the film are Emjay Anthony as Max Engel , Adam Scott as Tom Engel and Toni Collette as Sarah Engel. Also starring in the film are David Koechner as Howard , Allison Tolman as Linda , Krista Stadler as Omi Engel , Conchata Ferrell as Aunt Dorothy , Stefania LaVie Owen as Beth Engel , Lolo Owen as Stevie , Queenie Samuel as Jordan , Maverick Flack as Howie Jr. , Seth Green as The Voice Gingerbread Man Lumpy , Rick & Morty co-creator and star Justin Roiland as The Voice Of Gingerbread Man Clumpy and Gideon Emery as The Voice Of Krampus.
As for the acting in the hell it's just as a movie like this deserves like you hear a Christmas theme horror comedy and you don't expect great acting you expect OK to solid acting. Which this film has all of the actors turn either OK or solid performances with there being no true standout performer because this kind of film really doesn't demand that anyone turn in OSCAR worthy performances which in this case is a very good thing because it was clash with the film' goofy tone.
Doing the CGI for this film are the greats and legends over at Weta Digital , Ghost VFX and Mokko Studio. For a film that cost fifteen million American dollars to make this film honestly have some decent looking CGI to me what helps the CGI is the fact that it's mixed in with alot of practical effects and so even if you see a bad CGI effect which your honestly not that likely to do it doesn't really matter because it's followed up with a really cool looking practical effect.
I honestly love the fact that they didn't use that much CGI in the film since i'm a huge fan practical effects and I believe that if you can do something for real in a film then it should be a practical effect. Take for example this film they only use CGI when they absolutely have to and lot of what your seeing on screen is a practical effect and I have to say that the practical effects look so much better then the CGI effects because the practical effects were actually there on set where as the CGI effects don't always look like they were there on set.
Honestly the best way I can describe the tone of this film is that it's the kind of tone that you'd get if you mixed family Guy with The Simpsons and with a dash of Looney Tunes added in for good measure. Since yeah this film basically is a live action cartoon in places and while that does kind of clash with the horror elements in the film you could also argue that that's the point because Christmas and horror are complete polar opposites and so making a horror themed Christmas film that's aimed for teenagers and little kids just isn't going to work tone wise and you could very well make the argument that the tone doesn't work for this film and i'd honestly agree since the film can be a bit to goofy which doesn't work for the horror elements but then it could be a bit to scary which doesn't work with the films more comedic moments but that's just what I think.
There is one thing that I didn't like about this film and it's the commentary that the film has which is that Christmas has become to commercial. The only reason that I didn't like this aspect of the film is because it's a piece of commentary that's been played to death and while that commentary works for other films you have to add something new to keep it fresh which sadly they don't do here they just talk about points that over Christmas films not just Christmas themed horror films have talked about and that makes the commentary in this played out but it does lead to what I think is one the greatest horror openings since the original Carrie and if you've seen this movie you'll know exactly what i'm talking about.
This film has a running time of one hour and thirty seven minuets and forty seconds and if i'm being honest that's the right amount of time for this film. I'm not going to lie I would have liked this film to have been a bit longer just because I was having a good time and it would have allowed for some character development which is very sadly lacking with the current running time (which as i've mentioned is one hour and thirty seven minuets and forty seconds) but at the same time if the film was longer even by ten minuets it would stretch what is already a pretty thin story to it's breaking point but that's just my opinion tho.
Now then this is a horror comedy and so that means we have to talk about both of those aspects and so let's talk about the comedy in the film. Which to me personally was honestly OK at best I can't say that this film didn't have me laughing because I did laugh a few times at the films jokes but at the same time I wasn't laughing as much as I wanted to given the amount of comedic talent in this film who we know can make people I was expecting to be busting a gut laughing instead I was left just smiling at a couple of the films jokes which for a horror comedy let alone any kind of comedy is in my opinion a pretty bad thing but that's just me you guys might have found every joke in this film to be freaking funny as all hell i'm just not one of those people who liked all of the jokes in this film.
Now that we've talked about the jokes in this horror comedy it only makes sense that we now talk about the horror aspect of this horror comedy. Which in my opinion is where this film shines best because my god are the kills in this film super freaking creative and for a PG13 film (which in the UK translates to either a 12 or a 12a) they get away with lot they dont show any blood or anything but you see people get killed in worse ways in this film then most horror films aimed at people either in their late teens or adults.
Overall the best word that I can use to describe this movie is fun because honestly this film is pure fun to watch. That being said there are some issues with this film which i've covered in this review and while you can very well say that the issues that I had with this film are the films whole point to me they are still flaws with the film but at the same time the film does have alot of good things in it as well all which i've also covered in this review and so this film gets a 7 out of 10 from me.
All of the images that I got in this review I got from either Wikipedia , Google Images or the official Krampus fandom wiki page. Since I got the overall majority of the images from Google Images I have no choice but to recommend that you use Google Images if you want images from this film but be warned there really aren't many high definition images to be found on Google Images so use Google Images at your own risk and as per usual we end this review as we always do with our one true goddess Elvira wishing us all some very unpleasant dreams.
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