Krampus is a horror and comedy movie made back in 2015. Today it is one of the top picked christmas horror movies out there.

Director: Michael Dougherty
Nominations: Empire Award for Best Horror
Art directors: Joe Bleakley, Seth Kelly
Casting directors: Cathy Sandrich, Amanda Mackey Johnson
Edited by: John Axelrad
Music by: Douglas Pipes
Production companies: Legendary Pictures, Zam Pictures
Distributed by: Universal Pictures

Plot:
Three days before Christmas, the Engel family (parents Tom and Sarah, daughter Beth, son Max, and Tom’s mother Omi) prepare for the holidays. Despite his family’s dysfunctionality, Max still believes in Santa Claus and writes him a letter. Sarah’s side of the family comes for Christmas, including her sister Linda, Linda’s husband Howard, their children Howie Jr., Stevie, Jordan, and baby Chrissie, their bulldog Rosie, and Sarah and Linda’s cantankerous Aunt Dorothy. Max wants to maintain family traditions, but tensions among his relatives sap their Christmas spirit. When his cousins mockingly read out his letter to Santa, Max lashes out, yelling that he hates both his family and his belief in Christmas. His father attempts to comfort him by telling him that even though the holidays are chaotic, he should always love his family and give him back his letter to Santa. In a fit of anger, Max tears up the letter and tosses it out the window, whereupon it is swept up into the sky.
Later that night, a severe blizzard engulfs the town, causing a power outage. When Beth ventures out to check on her boyfriend, a large, horned creature chases her. She hides beneath a delivery truck, but the creature leaves a jack-in-the-box, which attacks her. When Beth does not return home, Tom and Howard search for her. They find her boyfriend’s house in ruins with the chimney split open and large goat-like hoof prints. Tom narrowly saves Howard from an unseen monster in the snow. They return home, board up the windows, and Howard stands guard while everyone sleeps. As Howard eventually falls asleep, a large hook with a living gingerbread man attached lures Howie Jr. to the chimney. When he takes a bite, he is dragged up the chimney despite the family’s efforts to save him.
Omi explains that the creature hunting them is Krampus, an ancient demon who punishes those who have lost the Christmas spirit. When Omi was a child, her community lost their spirit due to the hardships of the war in Europe. Omi also lost hope and wished for her parents to be taken away, summoning Krampus. He and his helpers dragged everyone except her to Hell, leaving behind a bell-shaped bauble with his name on it. The family remains skeptical of the story until the house is overrun by menacing toys emerging from the presents. Jordan is devoured by the jack-in-the-box Der Klown. The family fends off the toys and gingerbread men, until Krampus’s dark elves leap in through the window, taking Howard, Dorothy, and Chrissie. Tom leads the rest of the family to an abandoned snowplow on the streets. Omi stays behind to distract Krampus, who emerges from the fireplace and attacks her with his bag of toys. Outside, Tom, Sarah, and Linda are dragged under the snow by the snow monster while Stevie is captured by the dark elves. Krampus confronts Max and gives him a bauble wrapped in a piece of his discarded letter. Realizing that he was responsible for Krampus’s coming, Max chases after the demon and confronts him at the edge of a fiery pit. Max begs for Stevie to be spared and offers himself up as a sacrifice. Krampus refuses and tosses Stevie into the pit. Max sincerely apologizes for losing his spirit; although Krampus seems to accept his apology, he still tosses Max in as well.
Max awakens in his bed on Christmas morning and upon discovering his family alive and well, concludes what happened was just a nightmare. However, as they find Krampus’s bauble among the presents, the family exchanges troubled looks, recalling memories of the horrific events. The house is shown through a magical surveillance snow globe, along with hundreds of others in a vast collection in Krampus’s underworld lair in the mountains of Central Europe, for him to monitor and spy on for having spared them.

Cost:
Krampus grossed $42.7 million in the United States and Canada and $18.8 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $61.5 million, against a budget of $15 million.
In North America, Krampus earned $637,000 from its Thursday night showings, which began at 7 p.m.,and topped the box office on its opening day with $6 million. It rose 9.9% on Saturday over Friday, a rare occurrence for a horror film. It went on to earn $16.3 million through its opening weekend from 2,902 theaters, which was above expectations and finished in second place at the box office, ahead of The Good Dinosaur, but behind The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 ($18.6 million), which was on its third weekend. Scott Mendelson of Forbes felt the successful opening was attributed to the horror genre which was something of a new, unique and genuinely different offering at that time (the last time a Christmas-themed horror film opened was in 2006 with Black Christmas. However, he also stated that had Universal not embargoed the reviews two days prior to its release, a wave of mostly positive reviews dropping a few days before release would have boosted its opening accordingly.

Merchandise:
An original graphic novel titled Krampus: Shadow of Saint Nicholas was released on November 25, 2015, by Legendary Comics. The comic is written by Brandon Seifert and features stories by writer/director Michael Dougherty and movie co-writers Zach Shields and Todd Casey. Art is provided by Fiona Staples, Michael Montenat, Stuart Sayger, Maan House and Christian DiBari.
Weta Workshop released a number of collectables through their online store, including statues (Krampus, The Cherub, The Dark Elf), a life-sized prop reproduction of the Krampus Bell and a collectable pin. Trick or Treat Studios released three Halloween Masks directly out of the screen used masters. The masks include Krampus and two elves, Window Peeper and Sheep Cote Clod.
The popular Halloween store Spirit Halloween released a Halloween animatronic based on the main character Krampus.

Cast:
Emjay Anthony as Max Engel, a boy who loses the Christmas spirit due to his dysfunctional family’s squabbling.
Adam Scott as Tom Engel, the father of Max.
Toni Collette as Sarah Engel, the mother of Max.
David Koechner as Howard Jackson Sr., the maternal uncle of Max.
Allison Tolman as Linda Jackson, the sister of Sarah and maternal aunt of Max.
Conchata Ferrell as Aunt Dorothy, the aunt of Sarah and Linda and maternal great-aunt of Max.
Stefania LaVie Owen as Beth Engel, the teenage sister of Max.
Krista Stadler (de) as ‘Omi’ (‘Granny’) Engel, the mother of Tom and paternal grandmother of Max and Beth.
Lolo Owen as Stevie Jackson, the daughter of Howard and Linda and the maternal cousin of Max and Beth.
Queenie Samuel as Jordan, the daughter of Howard and Linda and the maternal cousin of Max and Beth.
Maverick Flack as Howard “Howie” Jackson Jr., the son of Howard and Linda and the maternal cousin of Max and Beth.
Sage Hunefeld as Baby Chrissie Jackson, the baby daughter of Howard and Linda and the maternal cousin of Max and Beth.
Mark Atkin as Ketkrókur
Leith Towers as Derek, Beth’s boyfriend
Curtis Vowell as DHL Man
Luke Hawker as Krampus (in-suit performer), a dark ancient demonic figure from European folklore that dispenses vengeance and wrath on the naughty. He resembles a much darker representation of Santa Claus, appearing as a horned goat-like beast, with his face concealed behind a bearded mask.
Thor and Victoria as Rosie, the dog.

Voices:
Gideon Emery as Krampus
Seth Green as Gingerbread Man Lumpy
Breehn Burns as Gingerbread Man Dumpy
Justin Roiland as Gingerbread Man Clumpy
Ivy George as Perchta the Cherub
Brett Beattie as Der Klown, a demonic Jack-in-the-box.

So over the last 9 years Krampus has built to be a very good Christmas horror moives.