{"id":22840,"date":"2015-07-29T21:33:29","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T03:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=22840"},"modified":"2015-07-29T21:33:29","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T03:33:29","slug":"yet-another-krampus-christmas-horror-flick-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/yet-another-krampus-christmas-horror-flick-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet Another Krampus Christmas Horror Flick Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On December 4th, 2015 &#8212; just before St. Nicholas Day &#8212; the movie <em>Krampus<\/em> will debut. Loosely based on the ancient character of <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> nightmares, Krampus, the new movie has a plot that won&#8217;t be giving you visions of sugar plums:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When his dysfunctional family clashes over the holidays, young Max is disillusioned and turns his back on <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a>. Little does he know, this lack of festive spirit has unleashed the wrath of Krampus: a demonic force of ancient evil intent on punishing non-believers.<\/p>\n<p>All hell breaks loose as beloved holiday icons take on a monstrous life of their own, laying siege to the fractured family\u2019s home and forcing them to fight for each other if they hope to survive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, let&#8217;s not get carried away. In reality, the ancient character of Krampus was focused on naughty kids &#8212; not non-believers. He&#8217;s a beast to be sure &#8212; with his horned goat head, his long split tongue and his overall Sasquatch-like hairy body. And he&#8217;s not nice: he was known to beat those unworthy of St. Nicholas&#8217; generosity. But Krampus was no killer. <\/p>\n<p>This new movie comes from horror master Michael Dougherty. The production folks recently released this post at San Diego&#8217;s Comic Con:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/posterkrampus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/posterkrampus.jpg\" alt=\"posterkrampus\" width=\"621\" height=\"960\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22841\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/posterkrampus.jpg 621w, https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/posterkrampus-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 4th, 2015 &#8212; just before St. Nicholas Day &#8212; the movie Krampus will debut. Loosely based on the ancient character of Christmas nightmares, Krampus, the new movie has a plot that won&#8217;t be giving you visions of sugar plums: When his dysfunctional family clashes over the holidays, young Max is disillusioned and turns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","iawp_total_views":25,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,25,2],"tags":[233,226],"class_list":["post-22840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-features","category-christmas-movies","category-christmas-news","tag-christmas-horror-film","tag-new-christmas-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}