Mother Krampus (2017)

Instead of this movie going from 0 to 60, it went from 60 to 0. It started out like it was going to be a good movie, but somewhere towards the middle right down to the end it became horrible. The story line was good, but the acting and directing started to suck, it seems like the actors lost their scripts, gave up and started improvising. The acting was bad and the movie turned ridiculous. Save yourself 1:28:45!

Fmovies: When you see the word krampus you think of the demon from the krampus movie but this has nothing to do with krampus only thing that is the same is the story happens on christmas another to add at my never watch agains list (wich i realy should start making :p )

Before I get into the review, here are my ratings for the movie.

The story gets 0.25 out of 2: The Direction a 0.5: The Pacing receives a 0: While the Acting gets 0.75: And my Enjoyment level earns a 0.25 out of 2: Mother Krampus, therefore, rates a 1.25 out of 10.

I love Christmas and Horror films, so you'd think I'd be in heaven when the two genres mix, wouldn't you(?) Unfortunately, there are only a few agreeable Christmas Horror flicks out there. Mother Krampus is definitely not one of them.

Everything in this film is atrocious.

The strange issue with this film is that all the elements have a glimmer of expectancy. With the story, it's the premise. Twenty-five years previous, in the town of Belgravia, there were twelve child murders. Back to the present day and the murders have begun again. However, the murderess is deceased. So what's happing to the kids?

Numerous writers and directors have used this concept before. Having watched quite a few of these, I was happy to note the writer, Scott Jeffrey, opted to go for the vengeful spirit approach. Unfortunately, Jeffrey's writing style is clumsy, and he does like staying within stereotype guidelines with his character creation. When he does stray out of the lines, he serves up some splendid stupidity. I particularly loved the husband and father, Wildon. After an invite to Christmas Dinner, he turns up with his new girlfriend. This is the same women for whom he's just abandoned his family.

Of course, you know what's going to happen. And after the relationship fireworks, comes Mother Krampus. Within this sequence, you'll enjoy the delightfully idiotic scene where Wildon professes his love to his wife, while the flesh falls from his face. Would you believe it, he never loved nor cared for the new woman(?). By this point, the production team must have decided to go down the pub as the sound is atrocious. You cannot clearly hear what the couple is expressing unless you pump up the volume. I'll forewarn you, it's not worth annoying your neighbours for.

Vexingly, these elements ruin the scene, while the director, James Klass, tries to include some atmosphere by using lighting techniques. Sadly, the lights are too garish for the ambience he's trying to create. But, at least, he's trying. And, the special effects team have also finally pulled their fingers out. Wildon's scared and ripped face is more than reasonable, for a budget horror. But nothing can rescue the scene.

Mother Krampus is full of these sorts of errors and problems. Another favourite cringe-worthy scene is when daddy Alfie advises his daughter, Vanessa, there's only one way to fight the vengeful wraith. So while he wields an axe, very badly, Vanessa is armed with the ultimate weapon... a twig wrapped in fairy lights. The idea is so ludicrous it surpasses laughability. Next, we take a further step into the absurd as Klass hits the viewer with an iconic composition. Vanessa and her daughter Amy stand side-by-side, tooled-up with Chrimbo-lighted sticks, while daddy Alfie takes up the rear with the axe in a reverse V formation. It's not a terrible shot, but it's totally ridiculous.

Luckily, Alfie has the perfect kill shot set up for him. However, instead of cleaving Mother K's skull in two, he decided to throttle her with the axe handle. Man, is this guy is useless(?)

Though Klass does try, in places, to make the film more interesting for the audience, he chiefly fails. T

Mother Krampus fmovies. This has nothing to do with Krampus. Not even remotely. The acting is atrocious. The little girl being the worst. They makeup, bad. Bad script. Honestly with the exception of a few lights and a tree, it has no reason to even be related to Christmas. The is a story about a vengeful spirit. I wouldn't even call her a witch. This is on the independent film that should not have been made list, I'm sure. Do the best you can to try not to turn it off. It took all I could not to.

Before I get into the review, here are my ratings for the movie.

The story gets 0.25 out of 2: The Direction a 0.5: The Pacing receives a 0: While the Acting gets 0.75: And my Enjoyment level earns a 0.25 out of 2: Mother Krampus, therefore, rates a 1.25 out of 10.

I love Christmas and Horror films, so you'd think I'd be in heaven when the two genres mix, wouldn't you(?) Unfortunately, there are only a few agreeable Christmas Horror flicks out there. Mother Krampus is definitely not one of them.

Everything in this film is atrocious.

The strange issue with this film is that all the elements have a glimmer of expectancy. With the story, it's the premise. Twenty-five years previous, in the town of Belgravia, there were twelve child murders. Back to the present day and the murders have begun again. However, the murderess is deceased. So what's happing to the kids?

Numerous writers and directors have used this concept before. Having watched quite a few of these, I was happy to note the writer, Scott Jeffrey, opted to go for the vengeful spirit approach. Unfortunately, Jeffrey's writing style is clumsy, and he does like staying within stereotype guidelines with his character creation. When he does stray out of the lines, he serves up some splendid stupidity. I particularly loved the husband and father, Wildon. After an invite to Christmas Dinner, he turns up with his new girlfriend. This is the same women for whom he's just abandoned his family.

Of course, you know what's going to happen. And after the relationship fireworks, comes Mother Krampus. Within this sequence, you'll enjoy the delightfully idiotic scene where Wildon professes his love to his wife, while the flesh falls from his face. Would you believe it, he never loved nor cared for the new woman(?). By this point, the production team must have decided to go down the pub as the sound is atrocious. You cannot clearly hear what the couple is expressing unless you pump up the volume. I'll forewarn you, it's not worth annoying your neighbours for.

Vexingly, these elements ruin the scene, while the director, James Klass, tries to include some atmosphere by using lighting techniques. Sadly, the lights are too garish for the ambience he's trying to create. But, at least, he's trying. And, the special effects team have also finally pulled their fingers out. Wildon's scared and ripped face is more than reasonable, for a budget horror. But nothing can rescue the scene.

Mother Krampus is full of these sorts of errors and problems. Another favourite cringe-worthy scene is when daddy Alfie advises his daughter, Vanessa, there's only one way to fight the vengeful wraith. So while he wields an axe, very badly, Vanessa is armed with the ultimate weapon... a twig wrapped in fairy lights. The idea is so ludicrous it surpasses laughability. Next, we take a further step into the absurd as Klass hits the viewer with an iconic composition. Vanessa and her daughter Amy stand side-by-side, tooled-up with Chrimbo-lighted sticks, while daddy Alfie takes up the rear with the axe in a reverse V formation. It's not a terrible shot, but it's totally ridiculous.

Luckily, Alfie has the perfect kill shot set up for him. However, instead of cleaving Mother K's skull in two, he decided to throttle her with the axe handle. Man, is this guy is useless(?)

Though Klass does try, in places, to make the film more interesting for the audience, he chiefly fails. T

Heading off to her father's cabin, a woman and her daughter intending to get through the Christmas holiday together find themselves the subject of a town-wide curse as the spirit of a witch that was killed years earlier comes back for revenge, targeting the daughter and forcing them to try to stop it.

This one wasn't nearly as bad as it could've been. A lot of the film's positives center on the fear of children being targeted by the vicious creature. The real-life inspiration here for the figure coming back to haunt the citizens of the community based on the curse of the woman that the town burned alive has a great setup here with the witch coming back to target the kids. Based on the historical setup given through the church-meetings that go into the connections between everyone in the village to the hanging of the woman years ago, the overall setup from the film is quite enjoyable that turns over to the kids being the target of the creatures' rampage as it centers on the parents forcing themselves into action to save them. There's also the really enjoyable work here with the witch's confrontations and encounters with the kids. The opening abduction of the kid from the church is a chilling opening encounter, while the sightings of the witch lurking around the family tempting the daughter all come together to give this a creepy atmosphere. Other scenes, including the stalking of the babysitter and the young daughter in their darkened home or the witch's ambush in the woods, get far more brutal than chilling and it makes for a nice setup leading into the finale where the creature attacks the house. The action here is rather fun and frantic, leading to several nice confrontations with the creatures' powers providing some bloody scenes, giving this one a lot to really like. There are some problems to be had with this one. One of the biggest issues is the film's rather puzzling setup that includes some unnecessary elements here that drag the pacing out longer than it should be. The human-interest storyline involving everyone dealing with cheating spouses and long-buried secret identities doesn't provide the film with much, carrying on merely in the interest of bringing the husband and his girlfriend into the picture for more bodies to carve up sine their inclusion isn't warranted at all. These scenes are boring and not in the slightest interesting, much like the seemingly endless house ambush that goes on forever and seems to exist solely to show the witch engaging in brutal exaggerated torments on the group rather than going for its target that it could've easily done so at various chances throughout the sequence. The other real issue with this one concerns the film's cheap look and overall tone. The one-location setting and lack of any real grandiose sequences won't be any real reason to knock this but they do help the film come off with no budget. As well, there's the penchant for on-location lighting that renders a lot of the night scenes hard to make out due to the darkness present and relying on the localized candles and Christmas lights to constitute the only enhancements present in the scene. The witch make-up is simply atrocious, looking like running eyeliner after a heavy night of drinking that makes her look hung-over rather than a vengeful witch. These here are what hold this one down overall.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence, Language and children-in-jeopardy.