I have another offbeat Christmas movie coming at you, tis the season. “Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale” is a 2010 Christmas Adventure/Horror movie from Finland starring Jorma Tommila (The Christmas Party), Onni Tommila (Big Game), Tommi Korpela (Distractions), and IImari Jarvenpaa (Last Cowboy Standing).
High up in the mountains in Finland, an archeological crew is digging and blasting into the mountains. Unknowingly, they unearth something that has been frozen for centuries. It’s Santa Claus, and it’s not the one we’ve come to know and love. It’s now up to one boy to save his small mountain town before it’s too late.
This is an interesting concept. A great ancient evil that is accidentally released into the world, we’ve seen a million movies like this, but I haven’t seen one where the evil is Santa Claus. It is from Finland, but it’s subtitled and not dubbed. Which is great, most dubbed movies tend to bug me. It’s labeled as a horror but nothing really scary or suspenseful happens, it’s more along the lines of a fantasy or adventure. The main character is a nerdy, loner type kid, just trying to make his dad proud and ends up overcoming obstacles along the way. It’s an intriguing movie, and it’s well done. Not anything real special, like I mentioned nothing scary or suspenseful really takes place. It’s still worth a watch though, you can catch it on Tubi. I give it a 6.5/10.
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