NECA’s Deluxe Krampus figure, based on Michael Dougherty’s 2015 cult holiday horror film, is a genuinely imposing 10-inch centerpiece packed with real chain-and-padlock detailing, swappable tongues, seven interchangeable hands, and enough horror-Christmas trinkets to build an entire dark diorama. It’s the first Krampus figure ever produced from the film, arriving right on the movie’s 10th anniversary, and it was well worth the wait for horror collectors who’ve been asking for this one for a decade. Krampus is Michael Dougherty’s 2015 horror-comedy about a family who accidentally summons the ancient anti-Santa demon after a child loses his Christmas spirit — a creature who, unlike Saint Nicholas, punishes badly behaved children and their families instead of rewarding them, arriving with a horde of dark elves to abduct entire households and drag them back to his underground lair. The film outperformed expectations at the box office, pulling in $61.5 million worldwide against a $15 million budget, and has since become a genuine cult classic among horror-Christmas mashup fans.
Despite that cult following, official merchandise had been sparse for years — until NECA finally secured the license and revealed the figure at San Diego Comic-Con, with pre-orders opening in mid-2024 and the figure finally shipping to collectors in September 2025, timed almost perfectly to the film’s 10th anniversary and marking the first-ever action figure based on the movie. It released alongside a companion Der Klown Deluxe figure — the demonic jack-in-the-box creature from the film’s attic sequence — giving collectors the option to build out a matched horror-Christmas display. Krampus retails at $99.99, reflecting its Deluxe-tier size and accessory count.
Sculpt
NECA’s design team clearly understood what makes the character work visually: Krampus is meant to read as Santa Claus’s dark mirror image, and this figure leans hard into that resemblance while corrupting it at every turn. Standing roughly 10 inches tall, the figure comes wrapped in a long red robe finished with a black wash, torn and ripped fabric detailing, and dark red stripes running throughout — all built up with genuinely convincing sculpted fabric texture. Trimming the robe around the head, arms, and hem is a beige plush-style border, sculpted with a rougher texture than you’d expect from the plush trim on a traditional Santa suit — an inspired little detail that subtly signals “this is wrong” without being overt about it.
The head sculpt is where the figure earns most of its horror credibility. It resembles a classic Saint Nicholas silhouette but corrupted throughout: solid black eyes with red eyeballs, a black-painted mouth lined with beige teeth, a long grey beard and mustache finished with a wash to bring out texture, and finely sculpted wrinkles that sell the character’s ancient age. A particularly nice touch reviewers have flagged is the additional row of teeth sculpted deep inside the mouth — a detail some don’t specifically recall from the film itself, but one that adds a welcome extra layer of menace regardless. Topping it all off are two large, curved goat horns, sculpted and painted with real attention to natural asymmetry and texture.
Paint Applications
This is a figure that rewards close inspection, and it’s clear NECA’s design team treated the smaller details as seriously as the overall silhouette. The chains draped across the robe are genuine metal, not sculpted-and-painted plastic standing in for the real thing, and they come strung with gold padlocks meticulously placed to replicate specific shots from the film. One especially nice touch: a bell hangs from the chain at the back and bottom of the robe, positioned so it can actually drag along behind the figure when displayed — a small but effective way to sell motion and presence on a static piece.
Down at the base, the figure’s hooves are sculpted with detailed fur texture and a hollow underside, keeping the sculpting consistent even in areas most collectors will never really examine closely. That level of finishing-through detail — chains that are real hardware rather than painted plastic, sculpted fur on parts of the figure that face the shelf — is exactly the kind of premium-tier execution that helps justify the higher Deluxe price point against NECA’s standard 7″ releases.
Accessories: One of NECA’s Most Loaded Horror Releases
Krampus doesn’t just come with a couple of extra hands and call it a day — this is a genuinely stacked accessory pack built around recreating specific, iconic shots from the film:
- 2 interchangeable tongues — one curved, one pointing downward, both designed to slot into the mouth and recreate dynamic, film-accurate poses and iconic scenes. Worth noting: the box art shows the tongue pushed fully into the mouth, but that’s genuinely difficult to recreate in hand, so exercise a light touch when swapping these to avoid difficulty removing them afterward.
- 7 interchangeable hand sculpts, each themed around specific scenes and poses from the film — clawed hands for holding accessories, a neutral relaxed pose that ships pre-attached, and pointed-finger hands that reviewers have singled out as some of the most memorable and recognizable from the movie. Some of the fingers even include sculpted rings, a callback detail attentive fans will recognize from the film. The hands themselves are finished in a grey skin tone with long black claws, including a claw sculpted into the palm — genuinely creepy attention to detail most figures wouldn’t bother with.
- A snow globe accessory containing a miniature house — a direct reference to the film’s climactic cave sequence, where Krampus is revealed to keep entire abducted families trapped inside snow globes lining his underground lair.
- A bell-in-box accessory with a functioning lid, plus a separately wrapped version of the bell — both tying back to the film’s ending, where the family’s surviving member is handed a bell bearing Krampus’s name as a grim keepsake.
- Over 10 small trinket accessories designed to hang along the figure’s chains, including hook-mounted bells of varying sizes and pieces sculpted to resemble bones — likely meant to suggest human or animal remains — that collectors can arrange freely along the chain loops using the included instruction sheet as a loose guide.
A fair warning worth repeating from hands-on reviewers: several of these trinkets, particularly the smaller bells, are genuinely tiny and easy to lose, so handle them with some care during setup.
Articulation:
Don’t go into this expecting NECA’s usual highly poseable horror-movie-killer articulation scheme — Krampus’s articulation is intentionally limited given his bulk and design, offering a ball-jointed head and neck, swivel-hinge shoulders, swivel biceps, swivel-hinge wrists, and swivel ankles. That’s a noticeably scaled-back joint count compared to NECA’s typical 7″ scale movie-monster figures, but it’s the right call here: Krampus is designed as a looming, robed, largely stationary presence in the film rather than an acrobatic combatant, and the figure’s engineering reflects that reality rather than forcing unnecessary articulation into a bulky robed sculpt where it would look unnatural anyway.
Packaging
The figure ships in a window box with an opening flap, featuring artwork of the character in multiple poses across the front, sides, and back — including a shot of Krampus reaching toward the snow globe accessory on the front cover, and additional artwork on the rear depicting him beside a snow globe alongside a printed description of the character. It’s a collector-friendly presentation consistent with NECA’s other Deluxe-tier horror releases, giving the figure solid shelf presence even before it’s opened.
Because this is the first-ever action figure based specifically on the 2015 film, there’s no direct same-property competitor to benchmark it against — unlike NECA’s other licensed horror lines, where collectors can compare fresh releases to years of prior figures from the same movie. The more relevant comparison points are other traditional folkloric Krampus figures and holiday ornaments that have circulated in the gift and collectibles market independent of any film license, none of which attempt the level of screen-accurate detail, film-specific accessories, or premium scale this NECA release offers. Within NECA’s own catalog, the closest sibling comparison is the companion Der Klown Deluxe figure released alongside it — while Der Klown captures a completely different, more grotesque wooden-toy aesthetic from the film’s attic sequence, both figures share the same commitment to dense, scene-specific accessory sets and hold up well as a matched two-figure display.
NECA’s Deluxe Krampus figure is a genuinely impressive, detail-dense release that clearly benefited from a design team that cared about the source material — real chain hardware, a menacing and texturally rich head sculpt, and an accessory pack built specifically around recreating the film’s most memorable images rather than generic filler parts. The scaled-back articulation might disappoint collectors expecting NECA’s usual highly poseable engineering, but it’s the right creative choice for a character built to loom rather than fight. For horror collectors who’ve waited a decade for this figure to exist, it delivers convincingly — and doubles as one of the most striking alternative holiday decorations a genre fan’s shelf could ask for.
Recommended for: Krampus (2015) fans, horror-holiday collectors building a December display, NECA Deluxe-line completionists, and anyone who wants a genuinely unsettling alternative to a traditional Santa figure on the mantel.
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