He finds his family gathered in the living room happily waiting for him to join them. Max then wakes up in his room on Christmas morning, the night's events seemingly never having taken place. The Krampus and his minions laugh at this, and he throws Max into a fiery pit. Max confronts the Krampus, telling him that he just wanted Christmas to be like it used to be. The Krampus uses his dark magic to menace Max and his family, cutting their electricity, bringing a terrible snowstorm, and sending his minions to stalk and capture Max's family.īy the end of the movie, each member of Max's family has been picked off one by one by the Krampus and his minions until he is the only one left. Amid the contentious family fighting that breaks out leading up to Christmas Day, Max makes the same wish that his Grandmother made when she was a child, and the Krampus comes to grant it. When he appears, she seems to feel responsible for it. After losing her family to the demon, she regained her Christmas spirit and has feared the Krampus ever since. Related: Krampus: What The 2015 Horror Movie Gets Right (& Wrong) About The LegendĪccording to Omi's story in the movie, she had once lost her Christmas spirit and wished her family would go away-the Krampus granted her wish. He takes where Santa gives and punishes where Santa rewards. In the movie, the Krampus is a demonic mirror image of Santa Claus. The Krampus is introduced in the movie through a story told by Max's Grandmother, Omi, a German-speaking immigrant whose presence in the movie seems to imply that she imported the Christmas demon to the New World, reminiscent of Neil Gaiman's American Gods. Max is portrayed as a defender of Christmas, and gets into several confrontations over his desire to believe in Santa Claus. This sets the tone for the substantial comedic elements of the movie, a vivid contrast to the dark themes surrounding the Krampus, a sort of anti-Santa Christmas devil. The movie opens with a Jingle All the Way–inspired montage of shoppers fighting viciously over toys and gifts in a shopping mall.
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