Holiday Flix: Mother Krampus (2017)

 It is 2020, so let's be more inclusive.  There are enough Krampus Movies out there to cover, but the ladies don't get enough coverage.  Let's fix that...

So right off the bat, let's address the obvious...

There is no Mother Krampus.
A DVD Marketing Company came up with that name and someone spent 2 Hours in Photoshop slapping this together.

If you saw this Film before some re-marketing, it was called this...

The Film is actually about Frau Perchta (whom they always pronounce without the 't' in her last name).  It is a real Legend from Germany about an evil Witch.

In this case, there's more to her arrival, but I'll get to that.

On a whim, I decided to see how close their version of Frau got.

I'm not sure if it is accurate, but this drawing of her I found online does beat the Film's...

So the Film makes the Story a bit unclear, but I'll summarize...

In 1922, a bunch of kids went missing.
In 1992, more kids went missing.

This time, however, a local weirdo was blamed and hung by angry Parents in the Woods.
She called on Frau Perchta to 'be there in this moment' and get her revenge.

For some reason, she waited until 2017.

So now in the 12 Days (leading up to) of Christmas, she is kidnapping their kids' kids and killing random people that are in the way.

She's a bit unfocused, as Frau often gets distracted by gross-out horror like cutting skin up into Christmas Cookies.

Can our Heroes/Heroines survive her wrath?  Will she get her wish?  Will they actually nail down what powers and/or weaknesses she has?

To find out, stream the Film.  I saw it on Tubi, but you do you.

Can you return gifts before Christmas?  This one is...not great.  To say all of the nice stuff first, they were a little original.  It's not a killer Santa and it's not Krampus.  In defense of the Filmmakers, they weren't going for that angle.  There are moments that work, mostly the ones of build-up and suspense.  When the freaky-looking Witch is sort of stalking people.  When she just kind of looks freaky in the background or trying to lure kids in, it works.  The problem is that the Film has to go all in for the cheap, gross-out gore.  Frau Perchta can't just kill you- she has to do all sorts of body horror to you.  I can admire the creativity to a point, but it reaches far past excessive many times.  They just go on and on- meh.  Being gross or cruel in a Film just to be gross or cruel doesn't do anything for me.  The Plot is kind of a mess too.  So the first murders mentioned in the Intro were Frau Perchta, but the other ones weren't.  That woman- who claimed to be innocent- pulls a Freddy Kreuger...only she doesn't come back.  It's like if a woman was killed in a Film and then called on Candyman to get revenge- it's less satisfying.  Have her become Frau Perchta, drop the summoning angle all together OR have her working with the Witch.  Do a little twist and reveal that there are TWO Witches.  Do something else other than this.  I was tempted to do the Sequel- apparently not made by these people- too, but I'm suffering enough with this one.  Oh and thanks to the Film's Facebook Page, I can see the *actual* original Title...

A Film that has some real promise to deliver low-budget Horror.  Ultimately though, it gets too silly and excessive for my taste.