Dec. 4, 2025

This Day in Halloween: Horror comedy/ Christmas horror "Krampus" -- featuring Toni Collette -- opens across the U.S. in 2015. / Illustration by Julian Turonis

Krampus opens across the U.S. in 2015. The horror-comedy starring Toni Collette and Adam Scott was the first big studio feature based on the Austro-Bavarian legend. It’s also one of the latest entries in a growing sub-genre of Christmas horror started in the 1970s.  

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