Well if we are being accurate, a lot of the elements featured in this movie come from real mythology, it's just this version as told is not by any means a traditional configuration, which I doubt was ever Dougherty's intention.
One thing we have to also take into account, here is we are talking about folk characters, these have been spread out across so many areas told by so many people, there are so many variants we have knowledge of, and no doubt plenty more currently in the historical black hole.
Krampus is only one of many possible characters assigned as a companion to Saint Nicholas, excluding areas where there is a whole alternate character filling in for what we normally call Santa Claus. krampus himself varies from just being the bad cop to enslaved monster. There's so many ways to take the character, but I can admit some people may feel that even with a Krampus movie surge we don't have much of his more traditional identity on film....but who's to say it'll stay that way?
I think the movie was fine, but like a said a lot of the parts come from myths they've just been arranged into a new configuration. They kept some of Krampus' goat parts with the horns and the hooves. But the whole drag down to the underworld and elf part seems to be more common to the Wild Hunt. He also has a sleigh that seems to be pulled by Yule Goats, which are more associated with the Finnish Joulupukki. A character that is very varied over time himself across the Scandinavian and Pagan ideals. The mask Krampus wears here is also clearly trying to invoke an evil-Santa image.
The evil toys are clearly a little more modern with the exception of naming the angel Perchta. Another character who sometimes accompanied Santa.
Overall I think the film weaved a cool looking mythology, but I can see how some might have not wanting so much jigsaw puzzling.
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