Couldn't think of better ending than the old "it was just a dream"?
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Miora — 9 years ago(June 19, 2016 12:17 PM)
It was not a dream at all. It was just Krampus pushing the reset button.
It was clearly stated that Krampus his job was to teach the christmas spirit by punishment every time a child loses hope severely enough.
However Max had his hope rekindled when he realized how much he would miss his terrible family.
So Krampus knew that his job was done and he gave Max exactly everything he needed to have a better christmas.
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chet19 — 9 years ago(July 05, 2016 03:43 PM)
Yes, I know it wasn't literally a dream. But you still had the main kid wake up with little or no memory of what had happened. Maybe not a dream per se, but a dream-like situation with fuzzy memories. And it's not like he went into the living room and everyone explained it to him..or he explained to them what he's been through. No, they were sorta-kinda all vague and la-la land, just like a dream.
Did Scrooge dream, or was he visited by true ghosts? Either way, he woke up and understood and was changed. Not so much here -
jpowers4667 — 9 years ago(July 14, 2016 08:47 PM)
In my opinion, the theatrical ending is that they are all trapped in his collection in the underworld. They all possibly woke up, thinking it was a dream (hence the fact that they are all being nice to each other despite the house being "reset") until they see the Krampus ornament. That's when the look on their faces sets in and they realize it all actually happened
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BulbusBouffant — 9 years ago(July 21, 2016 06:19 PM)
I mean, it was definitely meant to throw you off. When the scene begins, you think "oh it was all just a dream" but then you realize, as the kid does, that its not a dream, but worse.
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bing-57 — 9 years ago(July 15, 2016 09:27 PM)
My interpretation was that everything we saw actually happened. Krampus reset everything for the real world and the bell told them all that the same "dream" everyone had last night was real.
Krampus keeps a copy of the family in the globe as a trophy. Or maybe as a tool to send them the dream again if they stray too far away from Christmas cheer.
I mean, Krampus didn't really take the whole house and family off the Earth and put it in a snow globe! If that was the case, there'd be thousands of real-life reports of houses and families just vanishing just before Christmas, along with whole neighborhoods being slaughtered.
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Bullish_Captain — 9 years ago(October 09, 2016 09:05 AM)
Krampus reset everything for the real world and the bell told them all that the same "dream" everyone had last night was real.
Only the boy saw the bell that night, so why would the family react to seeing it on X-Mas morning?
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bing-57 — 9 years ago(October 09, 2016 10:12 AM)
Only the boy saw the bell that night, so why would the family react to seeing it on X-Mas morning?
We saw the movie and dream from the boy's perspective. Maybe each family member had variations of that dream where they saw the bell too.
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deadbodieseverywhere17 — 9 years ago(December 08, 2016 07:25 PM)
If that was the case, there'd be thousands of real-life reports of houses and families just vanishing
Well basically you may as well not watch horror anymore, because you could make that statement about anything from Freddy Krueger to Angela Franklin to Toby from Paranormal Activity basically anything supernatural. We never see the explanation to the police (though in NOES they did sometimes say they knew about Freddy, but weren't consistent about it). My assumption was he didn't physically take the whole house, he had created a replica in a globe that he did physically imprison the family in. So they are gone, but the house is still standing.
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bing-57 — 9 years ago(December 08, 2016 08:11 PM)
Well basically you may as well not watch horror anymore, because you could make that statement about anything from Freddy Krueger
Well, that's not really unheard of. There have been many real-life cases of someone going crazy, hunting down and killing everyone in the house, and then going to their place of employment and hunting down and killing some more. It's not unbelievable that if the suspect got away after that, people would think it might be something supernatural like Freddy or Jason.
to Toby from Paranormal Activity
Even those murders are fairly isolated. A demon drags someone away and they are never heard from again. That can be written off as the person just running away from home or a wife going crazy and killing her husband. It's not like whole neighborhoods are slaughtered and homes just vanish from their properties.
And, in those movie franchises, the few people who realize that something supernatural is going on never are able to convince anyone else of that fact. So, the police always write off any simple-seeming murders and disappearances as mortal wrong-doings.
As far as I know, it's never happened that someone murders a whole sleep-away camp or a whole neighborhood.
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NorthernLad — 9 years ago(December 04, 2016 06:09 AM)
Did you watch the movie? Because clearly something happened there at the end other than the "it was all a dream" bit.
My take is that they are now eternally trapped in Christmas morning and Krampus has added them to his collection.
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Thomas-FordJr-1 — 9 years ago(December 06, 2016 11:21 AM)
Open to interpretation, which tbf in itself is lazy.
It was not open to interpretation.
They were all dead, and their souls were stuck in some 'Krampus-Made Purgatory'. Everything that happened to them, really happened. -
Chris12955 — 9 years ago(December 10, 2016 01:47 AM)
You mean the.
"it was all a dream, thank goodness."
"Here is your present Max."
"Wait, it wasn't a dream oh $#!%. So he is still watching us to make sure we act good. Oh no."
You do realize that this is fundamentally doing A Christmas Carol except with one ghost(demon) and a horror story instead.