Nathaniel Stukas, also known as Krampus, was a supporting character in the anti-Christmas film Violent Night. He was a member of Mr. Scrooge's gang who attacked the Lightstone family compound in order to steal $300 million from their vault. He was portrayed by Brendan Fletcher.
History[]
Krampus and the rest of Scrooge's gang had set themselves up as a catering company in order to infiltrate the Lightstone family compound. As the extended family were gathering at Gertrude Lightstone's mansion on Christmas Eve, the gang put their plan into action, locking down the mansion and murdering the security guards and serving staff. The Lightstone family members were secured in the lounge where Mr. Scrooge informed them of his intent to steal the money in Gertrude Lightstone's vault. Gertrude, however, gloated, informing the thieves that she had her own team of hired mercenaries coming to save the family and kill the intruders.
After Tinsel was found dead outside the mansion's front door and contact with Frosty was lost, Mr. Scrooge examined the security camera footage to discover that a man in a Santa costume was roaming the estate and was responsible for killing his crew members. He returned to the lounge and demanded to know the identity of the Santa, but no one where he had come from and Gertrude told him that she never hired Santas for her Christmas parties, calling them 'tacky'. Scrooge decided to torture the family for answers and Krampus gleefully volunteered to use a nutcracker to crush Jason Lightstone's testicles. Just as Krampus was about to castrate Jason with the nutcracker, Jason's daughter Trudy stopped them and demanded that the mercenaries leave her father alone or else Santa would be mad. Jason then told Trudy that Santa wasn't real, making her run to the attic upset.
Morgan Steel, one of the hostages and the husband of Jason's sister Alva, eventually knocked Krampus to the ground and escaped out the window, only to be killed by Commander Thorp and his Kill Squad, who turned out to be allied with Mr. Scrooge for a cut of the money. However, they found the vault to be empty since Jason was already stealing it. He led Scrooge, Thorp, Sugarplum and the Kill Squad to the Nativity sculpture outside where he hid the money, leaving Krampus to guard Jason's wife Linda, Alva and her son Bertrude. Once they started collecting the money, Scrooge ordered Krampus to kill the family.
Death[]
Krampus gathered Linda, Alva and Bert together at gunpoint, threatening to kill them. However, while he was distracted watching them argue over who was going to be killed first, Alva quickly threw her drink in the fireplace behind Krampus. The vodka ignited, burning Krampus' behind and causing him to fall to the floor. Alva, Linda and Bertrude then each grabbed a fire poker and began beating Krampus with them. At first, it seemed as though the trio beat Krampus to death, but he suddenly opened his eyes again seconds later, startling them. Alva finished the job by stabbing her fire poker into Krampus' neck, killing him.