#KRAMPUS 2015 STREAMCLOUD MOVIE#
This time around, he's taking a crack at making a great horror film that's also a great Christmas movie, which is surely trickier - we know from Black Christmas that an all-time great horror movie can be set at Christmas, and we know from The Nightmare Before Christmas that Yuletide and horror imagery can be mixed together to the great sustained profit of both, and there are other examples of both halves of the horror/Christmas equation - but hardly any example of films doing both at the same time. But let's not push the matter: making a great horror film that draws brilliantly upon the iconography of Halloween is not entirely an unimaginable feat.Īh, but now we finally come to Dougherty's second film, Krampus, a wearying eight years after the first. If any holiday is well-suited to a genre, it's Halloween and horror and yet what else has ever done it? Even the mighty Halloween isn't quite as perfectly balanced, largely because of the fruitless effort it puts into trying to pretend that California in the spring resembles Illinois in the autumn to any significant degree. Director Michael Dougherty's first film, Trick 'r Treat, is both a great Halloween movie and a great horror film, which sounds like a trivially easy task to accomplish.
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