Krampus: Origins

Making this a period piece was really ambitious and its take on the Krampus story is certainly creative but it ultimately falls flat and becomes a shore to get through because of its flawed execution.

Decent production values and cinematography for what it is but lacking on almost every other aspect including the writing, pacing and directing.

Acting for most part was decent. Ambiance was not very believable as 1913 even though the tried. Very drawn out in the beginning but it was better than when we saw the monster. I refuse to call it Krampus. I dont know what it was supposed to be. I sat through over an hour (it seemed) of nothing but dialog that was questionable at times, for EVERY SINGLE death was done OFFSCREEN! Yea. Zero Krampus death scenes, unbelievable period piece and the absolute worst Krampus design. The Krampus dialog gave secondhand embarrassment for sure and the story didn't even line up with the legend. Had promise.

Apparently the makers of this film only looked at the cover of a "Krampus: for dummies" book. The movie is extremely slow and must have had a 2k budget, but what really made this a 1 star review, is they only made a movie about an ancient demon with horns that hates kids and they mentioned twice it happened to be Christmas. They don't seem to know what Krampus is at all.

This movie is a terrible Christian knock off of the original Krampus I grew up knowing and loving. This movie barely introduces Krampus it is mostly talking about how he some German demon with horns who hates everyone especially children and it barely even showed Krampus , Krampus is only shown near the end of the entire film for about only 15 minutes in total , I watched this movie on Tubi Thinking it was going to somewhat be like the original film but boy I was completely wrong !!! It's nothing but a sad film trying to be something remake of a great Christmas horror film. In all honesty this movie is nothing but a embarrassment !!! ( 1 star )

The movie's introduction states that the action commences in December 1918. However by that time actual WW1 hostilities had ended on November 11, 1918.