Stills from the unaired 1967 Rankin/Bass Christmas special "Krampus Drags All The Naughty Little Children To Hell."
Following the success of 1964’s “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” NBC was eager to market new Christmas mascots, and greenlit a pitch by Rankin/Bass to reach beyond contemporary American Santa Claus stories and explore darker international Christmas folklore. Apparently misunderstanding the Krampus lore, one exec reportedly believed they had found “the next Rudolph,” saying “every little Jack and Jill in America is going to want a stuffed toy of our adorable ‘Santa Goat’.”
The result, however, was a different story. Shelved before it ever aired, the film was described by NBC president Julian Goodman as “among the most foul and blasphemous affronts to God and man I have ever had the misfortune of witnessing.” In the film, naughty children are visited by Krampus, who warns them of their fate if they don’t change their ways before Christmas. When the children continue to misbehave, they find familiar holiday scenes like tree lightings and snowball fights dissolving into vivid nightmares; even Santa Claus is stripped of his flesh and becomes evil “Skelly Claus.” The nightmares conclude with Krampus and his demons dragging the children to infernal dungeons at Satan’s command, where their souls burn in hellfire for all eternity, as visualized in the film’s surreal 20-minute final sequence, described by those who have seen it as “an agonizing maelstrom of non-stop screaming.”
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They're BACK AGAIN
As much as I hate leaving Halloween behind I need to give people the time to preorder, and international orders time to arrive! This year I am offering BOTH sweatshirts and t-shirts! Sweatshirts will come in forest green or black, and t-shirts just black!
Find them here
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🎄💀 MERRY CREEPMAS 💀🎄
— the kinda spooky holiday drop —
🌛 the first part of my holiday drop is live on my shop right now ⚡️ durentis.redbubble.com 🌜
🪻 up to 60% off ends 12/2 @ midnight 🪻
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On this day, December 25, in Type O Negative history:
Type O Negative rested on this day.
Central Park in winter, 1956, Courtesy of the Library of Congress
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I’m making a bunch of silly Christmas ornaments. If Walmart can put out their Christmas shit this early, so can I.
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A Krampus, a Yule Goat and a Santa (I realized it would have been more on theme to make an Odin Santa to go with the goat, but I can't stop giggling at that little face 😝)
These vinyl stickers are available at my shop!
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🎄 it's the most wonderful time of the year🎄
i have a bunch of christmas tree charms up on my store :) these are all designed by me then printed onto wooden charms
there's 3 designs available and limited numbers of each (particularly the jingle hearts)
the hail santa charms sold out really quickly last year, and i'm at a market on saturday (december 3rd) where i anticipate them doing really well, so if you're interested it would be a good idea to get one before then
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Merry belated Christmas! Do people still do anything on here?
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ugly christmas hail santa pentagram reindeer funny xmas Pullover Hoodie
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