We probably don’t talk about Tubi enough here on Bloody Disgusting, a *100% FREE* streaming service that quite frankly has a better selection than most paid services. Yes, there are commercial/ad breaks that’ll interrupt your movie every 15 minutes or so, but it’s a small price to pay for having so many movies at your fingertips for, well, no price at all!
On the holiday horror front, you’ll find no shortage of movies to stream on Tubi, including Silent Night, Deadly Night and its four sequels, as well as festive films like Jack Frost, Rare Exports, Black Christmas (2006), and The Munsters’ Scary Little Christmas (a fun little favorite of mine!). And then you have the *true indie* Christmas movies, of which there are many.
‘Krampus: The Reckoning’
In particular, Tubi has loaded up on Krampus-themed horror movies, all of which have come in the wake of Michael Dougherty’s Krampus back in 2015. The success of that movie opened up the floodgates for horror movies centered on the holiday beast of Alpine folklore, and thus far they’ve pretty much all been of the *no-budget* caliber. But hey, they can still be fun!
Up for streaming right now on Tubi you’ll find…
- Krampus: The Christmas Devil (2014)
- Krampus: The Reckoning (2015)
- Krampus Unleashed (2016)
- Krampus 2: The Devil Returns (2016)
- Mother Krampus (2017)
- Krampus Origins (2018)
- Mother Krampus 2: Slay Ride (2018)
- Vikings vs. Krampus (2020)
I’ve been working my way through the list this month, having thus far watched Krampus: The Reckoning, Mother Krampus, and Mother Krampus 2. The Reckoning (above) is the one with a fully computer-generated Krampus, but otherwise it’s one of the better uses of the Krampus mythology on this particular indie level. As for Mother Krampus, well, that one’s actually about the unrelated holiday witch known as Frau Perchta, the movie turning the Christmas witch into a sort of Freddy Krueger-like character out for revenge. Mother Krampus 2, however, is a sequel in-name-only, having nothing whatsoever to do with the previous movie. And the killer isn’t female Krampus or even a witch, but rather a woman in a Michael Myers mask.
I’m not making this up. This is the wonderful world of no-budget horror we’re talking about. And while none of these movies are traditionally *good*, they do have their own charms…
So if you’re looking for more Krampus, look no further than Tubi. And to help you decide which ones to watch and which to skip, you can watch trailers for seven of the films below!
