All the Haunts Be Ours Volume 2 – Part 2 (2024 release)

Now available from Severin Film’s  

This box set is massive, MASSIVE. 13 discs, a ton of features and short films, more extras than one can watch, and a fantastic book. This is a set for folk horror fans with something for everyone for which quick reviews for each of the films can be found below. 

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Gruss Vom Krampus 

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Tonight is Krampusnacht, so why not celebrate with a film or two about the classic tale of what happens to bad little boys and girls. On Krampusnacht, or Krampus Night, a being known as Krampus goes to visit bad kids, taking them in his basket and giving them beatings with reeds. The tale has a few variations on the theme depending where you are in the world and who is telling. As such, it was ripe for the taking by horror filmmakers with, well, uneven results. That being said a couple of these come up head and shoulders above the rest. To be fair, an unholy number of Krampus films were watched recently, including everything from Krampus (by Michael Dougherty, Trick R Treat) to Mother Krampus and all the Krampus films that could be sequels to one another or independent that could be found on streaming.

Well, most of them, there is limit to the number of blah films one can watch. So which one should you look for and why? 

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