Films like Krampus.
Krampus (2015) reads as Neutral, kinetic, measured horror / comedy, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the strange, dreamlike logic — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Keeps the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a documentary-plain realism.

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
These are Krampus’s neighbours — where are yours?
Pick the mood of the night and we pull a film that fits it, on the same twelve axes. Then everyone on the couch gets something to watch for.
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