Way back in January 2014, Kevin Smith announced a Christmas-themed horror anthology entitled Comes the Krampus, which was subsequently retitled Anti-Claus before being shelved due to Michael Dougherty’s own Krampus movie. Well, it seems Smith has decided to dust the project off, announcing that – after overhauling the script and changing the title once again KillRoy Was Here – he’s now started production in Sarasota, Florida.
“We were gonna make this Krampus movie and then somebody went and made a Krampus movie,” said Smith (via Bloody Disgusting). “Ours was an anthology that played more like Creepshow. Or, to appeal to the modern day kids, Creepshow 2. Or, let’s say, Black Mirror. So yeah, it’s kinda like that. It’s an anthology. So our Krampus movie – which was called Comes the Krampus and then later on, Anti-Claus – it got shelved. So we decided to re-engineer that dopey script. We turned it into a different movie. We just changed the Krampus character – it’s almost the same script. Took the Christmas elements out of it. Instead, we’re calling it KillRoy Was Here.”
Check out Smith’s Facebook video here, which gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the production…
Originally published June 17, 2017. Updated April 15, 2018.
