Mother Krampus

I guess some marketing wiz thought that having the word "Krampus" to the title might make a few folks watch it. Deceitful and shameful. This movie had nothing to do with Krampus. It was just another "scary" movie capitalizing on the horror Christmas theme.

It is hard to determine if the people can act, there is NOT ONE BIT OF NORMAL REACTION TO ANY CIRCUMSTANCE IN THIS MOVIE. Children about bo be killed would never act as in this move, they would become defensive in their fright. People who are loved being killed around them, they would not act at all as depicted. THIS IS ONE OF THE WORST MOVIES I HAVE EVER WATCHED. Midpoint of the movie, Amy's father shows up for Christmas dinner with his 2 month long new relationship with a "bimbo." Acting as if nothing has happened to Amy's poor, deserted mother and that they should all "enjoy Christmas together." This is the also daughter's attitude and totally unrealistic. The story line of the entire movie is hard to follow as it makes no logical sense at all.

Mother Krampus (2017) is a movie that I recently watched on Tubi. The storyline follows the story of German Urban Legend of Frau Perchta, the Christmas Witch. In a small town there's a legend of a witch in the woods who steals a kid from town every day for 12 days leading up to Christmas. The town thought they rid themselves of the witch in the 20s but when children start disappearing again they may not be as rid of the witch as they believe.

This movie is directed by James Klass (House on Elm Lake) and stars Tony Manders (The Young Cannibals), Tara MacGowran (Secret Places), Oliver Ebsworth (Nightmare on 34th Street), Sian Crisp (Rocketman) and Becca Hirani (The Gardener).

The best part of the movie is the horror background music. The horror elements are very weak and most of the kills are disappointing. There is a good back stabbing in the woods scene. The acting and dialogue are weak and the makeup used to create the witch was mediocre. The villain doesn't look anything like the cover art at all.

Overall, this is a below average addition to the horror genre that I would score a 3/10 and recommend skipping.

Just stumbled into this mess by accident. This movie should have been a comedy and not a horror movie, I guess they tried to rip off "the nun" but fell flat on their faces. If you wanna make cheesy horror flick that's fine with me, many classics prolly had lower budgets than this one, but why make it so bad?

The whole premise of the movie could have been good, but got ruined by horrible acting, gore effects out of a mickey mouse magazine and suspense of a snail race. Like seriously are all these actors drugged up, they watch the menace approach with stoic faces or while somebody next to them gets attacked. The kids are especially stupid and hilarious in this one. Their attempts to fight are so half assed it was laugh inducing, bad witch approaching? Splash a bowl of water into her face! She is attacking your kid? Throw an empty cardboard box at her back! The worst thing was the supposed Christmas lights that would protect them from her, next thing you know she strangles on of the dudes with a Christmas light, like Wut???

If you got time to waste, it's good for that, but don't expect to be scared at all.

For some reason I have been putting off watching "Mother Krampus" for about a year. So I decided to watch it in 2018, now that the Christmas season is slowly starting to enclose upon us.

Right, well I should have waited longer or just put it off all together. I managed to endure 27 minutes of the ordeal that is "Mother Krampus" before I gave up out of sheer and utter boredom. This movie had nothing interesting to offer any where, any how or any place. It felt very amateurish, not that there is anything wrong with that, but I had hoped for something more, mind you.

The acting in the movie was definitely not the most brilliant of thespian performances, and this too felt like it was not fully there. Some of the performances were quite questionable and felt like the actors and actresses themselves didn't really believe in the script.

As for the script and storyline, well I am sure that every bit of good intention was put into it. But it just had zero appeal to me. And I can honestly say that this is not a movie that I will return to watch any more of at any time ever.

In the 27 minutes of pure boredom that I managed to endure, nothing, and I mean that literally, had happened to entice me to want to keep watching the movie.

This is definitely not a Christmas classic...