Krampus (2015)
Directed by Michael Dougherty

Film Synopsis

Christmas is still a few days away but already the familiar wet blanket of Yuletide misery has descended on the Engel household, as comforting as a soggy weekend in a crocodile-infested swamp.  As his relatives come to blows and resort to the usual round of festive squabbling, little Max rebels and makes up his mind that he will completely ignore Christmas this year.  Within minutes of his making this bold resolution, the whole town begins to suffer.  Unwittingly, Max has angered the Krampus, an ancient demon whose sole reason for being is to punish any boy or girl who dares to defy the spirit of Christmas.  The Krampus shows no mercy and there are no limits to the cruelty he will inflict on those who arouse his ire.  He derives a real sense of job satisfaction from the suffering he unleashes on the world, helped by his hellish minions. 

Before poor Max knows it, he and his family are being menaced from all sides by terrifying gangs of toys and hostile gingerbread men.  An attempt to escape in a snow plough ends with Tom and his relatives fending of a brutal onslaught from Krampus's merciless elves.  There is only one way that Max can save himself and his family from destruction - and that is to make a sincere apology.  If the little boy cannot find it within himself to regain the Christmas spirit he and his relatives face something far worse than a few days of enforced confinement together - they are heading for an eternity of agonising torment in the deepest pit in Hell...!