This document provides a summary of various films and television episodes that feature the character of Krampus. They include: - Krampus: The Reckoning (2015 film) - A Christmas Horror Story (2015 anthology film) - Krampus (2015 comedy horror film) - An episode of American Dad featuring Krampus kidnapping Steve - An episode of Supernatural investigating Christmas deaths caused by Krampus - An episode of Grimm featuring Krampus capturing naughty kids The summary briefly describes the plot or how Krampus is featured in each title in 1-3 sentences.

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2. Krampus: The Reckoning is an horror film from 2015. The film was written and
directed by Robert Conway. The story is about a child psychologist who is trying to
figure out a mysterious link between this young girl and the creature known as
Krampus. This girl is an orphan and gets adopted by abusive parents. Whats
interesting in this story is that the young girl can summon Krampus with a magical
voodoo like doll. With this doll she can summon Krampus to come forth and kill
people. With this power she kills her abusive parents and some other bad people who
are involved with the orphanage. The psychologist looks into the girls past and sees
all the mess with her past life that involved Krampus. This girl is supposed to be dead
as her older sister accidentally killed her while trying to summon Krampus herself. At
the end the girl disappears and so does all evidence that she was ever there.
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3. A Christmas Horror Story
A Christmas Horror Story is a horror movie from 2015 and is directed by Grant Harvey, Steven
Hoban, and Brett Sullivan. The film is based on a ton of different stories tied together told by a radio
DJ. The third story is the one that talks about Krampus the most. In this story there is a family who go
to visit their aunt. While visiting their aunt one of the children breaks a Krampus figurine in an attempt
to upset their aunts caretaker. The aunt told the family a story about Krampus and told the family to
leave because he might come. On the families way home they get into a car crash and are now aware
that they are being hunted down by Krampus. They try to seek shelter in a church to and confess
their sins but it did not work. Krampus was able to pick them off one by one. With one family member
remaining they go back to the aunts house and tells her what happened. Krampus come sand they
are successful in killing him and he transforms into the aunts caretaker. The aunt fully aware explains
that the anger the caretaker experienced is what turned her into Krampus. THe family ember now
outraged by this new information turn into Krampus and attacks the aunt.
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4. Krampus
Krampus is a horror comedy film from 2015.
The film was written and directed by
Michael Dougherty. The movie is a story
about this family before Christmas and how
only one of the kids in the family still believes
in Santa. The kid is bullied for it and
eventually loses all his Christmas spirit. Due
to there being no more Christmas spirit in
the house Krampus comes and attacks.
While Krampus is attacking one of the family
members explains what exactly is
happening. The kid tries apologizing to
Krampus, and while it looks like Krampus
forgives him he still sends him to hell. The
next morning when they all wake up they are
inside a snow globe in Krampus’ workshop.
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5. Krampus Unleashed is a horror film from 2016. The film was written and directed by
Robert Conway. The film is based on an object called the summoning stone. When the
summoning stone is lit it summons Krampus to come. According to a myth, saint
nicholas himself would leave pieces of the stone in stockings of his enemies so that
when they are left out to dry Krampus would come and kill them. This summoning
stone is found and is accidentally lit from a lighter. Krampus comes and wrecks havoc
every where. The original people who found it are trying frantically to find it. They
come across someone who has knowledge of the stone who helps them get rid of
Krampus. He does this by sacrificing himself in a mine that has dynamite with
Krampus and the stone to send Krampus back to hell. The summoning stone is
destroyed and hatches a baby Krampus. The rest of the group are found by state
troopers and are getting help.
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6. A Krampus Carol
A Krampus Carol is a short stop-motion film from 2011. The whole film is around 3
minutes long and it shows how Santa and Krampus treat each other and the
punishments Krampus gives. The beginning of the film it shows Santa and Krampus
talking. Santa is telling Krampus where all the naughty kids are. After Santa is done
Krampus tells him he will go take care of it and that afterward he and Santa should
hangout. Krampus then goes to the kids house and confronts them about the
naughty things they have done. He uses various amounts of punishments to make
sure the lesson is learned to not be naughty or else Krampus will come.
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7. Slay Belles is a horror movie from
2018. The movie was written and
directed by Dan Walker. The movie is
about three girls, who are actively
cosplaying, coming across a Christmas
demon. The three girls attempt to
team up with Santa Claus to battle
Krampus. The group wants to stop
krampus before he terrorizes the
whole world.
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8. In this episode of American Dad Steve is having a very awful behavior and
gets kidnapped by Krampus. The family goes to the North Pole to try and
track him down. Throughput the episode Krampus and some of the other
characters start to develop a bond. The story tries to make sure that it
stays true to the original lore of Krampus and only punish the bad kids for
misbehaving. The episode tries to teach Steve a lesson about how he
should act. Stan and Krampus develop a relationship and grow closer
together which gives a nice spin on the tale since Krampus is usually only
friends with Santa.
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9. Dwight Christmas - The Office
Belsnickel and Krampus may seem like completely different things. However
this is not true. Belsnickel and Krampus come from the same tales and just
have different names based on the area of the world you are from. In this
episode of the office Dwight takes the unordinary route as dressing up as
Belsnickel for the Christmas party compared to what everyone is going off of
for American culture. Dwight explains what Belsnickel is to his culture and
shows how it is related to Christmas. Dwight goes on to show that Belsnickel
isn’t bad for what he does, it’s just what he is.
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10. In this episode Sam and Dean go on a crazy
adventure. On this Christmas they
investigate a series of Christmas related
deaths. The most common way of death
being yanked up chimneys. The crew
thought it was Krampus and went after
him. Since this is Supernatural Krampus
has some unusual differences that make
him unique to this story, however,
Krampus is still very closely rooted to his
true lore. At the end the culprit ended up
not being Krampus but instead some crazy
gods.
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11. This story kept Krampus a pretty simple character and made sure he
stayed true to its lore. In this story Krampus comes and captures naughty
kids and tortures them. After he is done torturing them he takes them
away in his sack and in the kids place he leaves a lump of coal. This is a cool
contrast to the way Americans view Christmas where the kids who are
bed get coal for Christmas. Theres a lot of similarities that you can grab
from this show and they did a really good way of changing your perspective
on the culture of Christmas.
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12. Who?
The roots Krampus came from actually have nothing to do with christmas. The name
Krampus is derived from the German word Krampen which means claw. According to legend
Krampus is the son of the Norse goddess Hel who is the youngest daughter of Loki. Hel is the
ruler of Helheim which is the Norse realm of the dead. (Tikkanen) Krampus is a half goat half
demon type of humanoid. Krampus today is supposed to be the counterpart of St. Nicholas.
St. Nicholas rewarded the good children while Krampus punished the bad ones. Krampus
shows up on December 5th which is known as Krampus Night, or in German Krampusnacht.
The next day kids would look out to see if the shoe they left out got presents, for being good,
or a rod, for being bad. All throughout Christmas season Krampus goes out and beats kids
with branches and can sometimes disappear to be tortured or even eaten. (Billock)

13. The Catholic Church saw Krampus as a pure
demon and representation of the devil,
because of this they did their best to surprise
him. The church did many things such as not
teaching the legend and forbidding and
celebration of it. Further more in WWII
fascists in Europe found Krampus to be
horrid as they considered him to be a
creation of the Social Democrats. Krampus
has started to appear more and more today
as more people look for an anti-christmasy
view. (Basu)
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14. Krampus festivals are a pretty common thing in Europe with them only
getting more and more popular each year. However, Krampus related
things are still pretty rare in the United States. Only recently have we
started seeing U.S parties with one being in Portland. Some bars in the U.S
have little things to celebrate Krampus but nothing compared to how
Europe celebrates it. Only Recently have bigger events shown up in the
state such as Krampus runs in Los Angeles. (Crimmins)
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15. Is Krampus Evil?
Many people try to say that Krampus is evil because he tortures kids. An
argument people bring up is that in the lore he does it because its his job to
do it. Krampus works closely with Santa and is seen as his buddy. Santa tells
Krampus who all the naught kids are and Krampus goes and gets them.
Today people are trying harder and harder to commercialize Krampus so you
will find more chocolate and stuffed animals related to him. People are
starting to complain about this saying that treating Krampus like this makes
him someone not to fear when in fact you should because he punishes the
bad people.

16. • Krampus: The reckoning. Directed by Robert Conway, Uncork’d Entertainment, 2015.
• A Christmas Horror Story. Directed by Grant Harvey, Steven Hoban, and Brett Sullivan, RLJ Entertainment, 2015.
• Krampus. Directed by Michael Dougherty, Universal Pictures, 2015.
• Krampus Unleashed. Directed by Robert Conway, Uncork’d Entertainment, 2016.
• A Krampus Carol. Directed by Anthony Bourdain, Zero Point Zero Production, Inc., 2011.
• Slay Belles. Directed by Dan Walker, Epic Pictures, 2018.
• “Minsterel Krampus.” American Dad, Written by Seth Macfarlane, Directed by Josue Cervantes, 20th Television, 2013.
• “Dwight Christmas.” The Office, Written by Robert Padnick, Directed by Charles Mcdougall, NBCUniversal Television
Distribution, 2012.
• “A Very Supernatural Christmas.” Supernatural, Written by Jeremy Carver, Directed by J. Miller Tobin, Warner Bros.
Television Distribution, 2007.
• “Twelve days of krampus.” Grimm, Written by Dan E. Fesman, Directed by Tawnia Mckiernan, NBCUniversal Television
Distribution, 2013.
Texts/Films

17. • Crimmins, Peter. “Horror For The Holidays: Meet The Anti-Santa.” NPR, NPR, 10 Dec. 2011, www.npr.org/
2011/12/10/143485735/naughty-or-nice-krampus-horror-for-the-holidays
• Basu, Tanya. “Who Is Krampus? Explaining the Horrific Christmas Beast.” National Geographic, National Geographic
Society, 5 Apr. 2020, www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2018/12/131217-krampus-christmas-santa-devil/
• Little, Becky. “Meet Krampus, the Christmas Devil Who Punishes Naughty Children.” History.com, A&E Television
Networks, 5 Dec. 2018, www.history.com/news/krampus-christmas-legend-origin
• Tikkanen, Amy. “Krampus.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 27 Nov. 2019,
www.britannica.com/topic/Krampus
• Billock, Jennifer. “The Origin of Krampus, Europe's Evil Twist on Santa.” Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian
Institution, 4 Dec. 2015, www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/Krampus-could-come-you-holiday-season-180957438/
• “Krampus.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 27 May 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krampus
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