Headscratchers / Krampus

• What does Omi actually say, that is translated to "She said we're fucked"?
  • Cursory google tells me: “wir sind am Arsch”
• How did the Jack-in-the-Box Jester get from underneath the delivery man's truck with Beth to the attic? It moves slowly as hell since it has to drag itself across the ground, and there was no way for it to sneak upstairs to lure Jordan and Stevie up. The chimney obviously wouldn't work, since it doesn't lead to the attic, so how did it get there? This is of course assuming that the two Jack-in-the-Boxes are the same.
  • If they are the same, there might be a possibility that Krampus or one of the elves put the Jack-in-the-box in the attic after it attacked Beth.
  • There are likely two Jack-in-the-Box monsters. The bag of "presents" is delivered before Beth leaves the house and is attacked. Later, when Linda is going to re-wrap the presents, we see one of them is a Jack-in-the-Box; this box is also seen later with signs of whatever was inside having burst out. There are also all the toys in Krampus' sack when he takes Omi.
  • Or possibly there's one Jack-monster that can emerge from any suitable Box, in place of its original jester head.
• Why does Krampus have what appears to be muskox pull his sleigh? Are muskoxen the opposite of Reindeer? Or was it so they could show them butting heads?
  • They didn't necessarily appear to be typical Earth oxen (the correct pluralization) as much as horrendous, horned hell beasts, much like Krampus himself. They weren't necessarily the direct antithesis to the reindeer as much as just darkly-twisted versions of them.
  • The credits listed a couple of actors as "The Yule Goats". Perhaps they were demonic goats?
  • Check Wikipedia for "Yule Goat" or "Joulupukki". Large, terrifying goats that served Saint Nicholas. Eventually evolved into sort of Christmas party animals, and even merged with Santa in Finland. Also, the goat-chariot ties into the Norse origins of the Santa myth.
  • This version of Krampus seems to be going for older elements. As mentioned above, in some cultures the Santa is pulled by goats. Like many of these characters, they vary highly from region to region, city to city, and sometimes even family to family. But there's precedent for nasty Yule goats. That being said, while it's clear where the first literary version of Santa having reindeer came from, exactly when and where the reindeer got in isn't clear. Although likely we should be looking for European areas with domesticated reindeer in the 1700s as the most probable birthplace of Santa having his reindeer. But of course, while we're at it in some places Santa had a horse and in others, he just plain walked.
• How did the dog catch and eat an evil living Gingerbread cookie that was on fire without getting any burns?
  • Odds are, she did get burned and just didn't care. Some dogs are just like that, especially when confections are involved.
• Krampus has been known to punish though who are naughty, so how does losing the Christmas spirit fall into that category? Sure, Max may have said and done some naughty things, but that wasn't his fault. The same goes for Omi when she was a child.
  • We have to remember that Krampus is a demon. He doesn’t care about the meddling details of Omi living through a world war, or Max living in a dysfunctional family. All he (or it) sees and cares about is naughty people and reacts accordingly.