Krampus 4K 2015 The Naughty Cut Ultra HD 2160p

What a wonderful holiday! Santa Claus is about to knock on the door ... But not this time. They broke a sacred rule - they quarreled on Christmas. Now Krampus and his army of demons will come to them.

Krampus 4K The Naughty Cut Review
On Christmas Eve, their relatives come to visit the Engel family. An already not very close-knit family awaits this visit with horror, and only the youngest Engel, Max, hopes for a miracle - and it happens, but not at all the way the boy would like. On Christmas night, the city is attacked by the strongest blizzard, and with a blizzard in their region, Krampus appears with his army of monsters - a nightmarish creature that hunts for those who misbehaved.

Hollywood once again proves that the adage "sometimes empty, sometimes thick" seems to have been invented about him - until recently, only a few who are fond of Western European folklore heard about Krampus, but in the past few years, the antipode of Santa Claus has firmly established itself on large and small screens. So, in the same 2015, "A Christmas Horror Story" appeared, two years earlier "Krampus Night" was released, Kevin Smith is hatching his own project about a Christmas monster. And that's not to mention Krampus's guest appearances on Grimm, Scooby-Doo and American Dad!

Nevertheless, Michael Doherty's Krampus rises in the midst of all this variety of its "poor relatives" as a lonely rock - if only because this film bears little resemblance to the traditional New Year's movie, and this is both its strength and weakness. On the one hand, the authors of "Krampus" clearly aimed at a teenage audience - hence the almost complete absence of blood, and the heroes die without any naturalism (they can be dragged into a snowdrift, taken into the sky, or just do something bad with them behind the scenes) - but at the same time the film looks and "feels" in such a way that even other eighteen-year-olds will have nightmares after it.

I must say that the film is harnessed slowly and for quite a long time looks like a toothless black comedy about a "wrong" family, which in the face of danger will remember that it binds them all and rallies. Comedian David Cockner in one of the main roles, and Conchata Ferrell, who, in fact, reprises here her signature role of the sharp-tongued cleaning lady from the TV series "Two and a Half Men", tunes in for this. But the first impression is deceiving - when Krampus appears in the city, the jokes will not end, but they will acquire a gloomy macabre shade, and the easiest targets - children - will be the first to go under the knife.

To see in a potentially family film how a giant clown monster with jaws opening a la Predator swallows a defenseless girl whole (the age rating does not allow to crack into pieces!) Is quite unexpected. And if, for example, "Critters" were a slightly tougher version of "Gremlins" by Joe Dante, then "Krampus" is "Critters", passed through the horror prism of David Cronenberg and Guillermo Del Toro. This is a creepy movie even when the heroes fight off not from Krampus himself (very, by the way, spectacular) or his toothy henchmen, "disguised" as dolls, but from three completely harmless-looking gingerbread men. At the same time, the absence of blood in the frame is disorienting - there is a deceptive relaxing feeling that all these deaths are "fake", and the heroes are about to wake up from a nightmare.

Michael Doherty's previous film, the Halloween horror film "Trick or Treat", was very similar in style and mood (formally a children's horror story, told albeit with humor, but without humiliating attempts to lisp with its audience) - it was released only on video, but quickly became a cult and is about to get a sequel. It is hard to say whether Krampus will have such a long life - this is the case when the pursuit of a softer rating puts a serious bandwagon on the film. But there is no doubt that Doherty has once again turned out a unique, one-piece film, a must-see for connoisseurs of the "scary" genre.