On Christmas Eve in Finland, Santa Claus is unearthed in an archaeological dig. Soon after, children start disappearing, leading a boy and his father to capture Santa and, with the help of fellow hunters, they look to sell him back to the corporation that sponsored the dig. And then there's Santa's elves, who are determined to free their leader...... (Full plot summary below)
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On Christmas Eve in Finland, Santa Claus is unearthed in an archaeological dig. Soon after, children start disappearing, leading a boy and his father to capture Santa and, with the help of fellow hunters, they look to sell him back to the corporation that sponsored the dig. And then there's Santa's elves, who are determined to free their leader...
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| Montreal GazetteAl KratinaJalmari Helander's film has fun with the idea that Christmas, with all its kid-friendly commercialism, has horrific, blood-soaked roots, like a Chuck E. Cheese built over a plague pit. |
| Boston PhoenixS.I. RosenbaumThe end gets a little silly, but the building tension of the first two acts allows for some deliciously creepy moments and a true feeling of dread: the sense of something very old, and very hungry, shuffling toward you in the Yuletide dark. |
| Film.comChristine ChampRare Exports also twists the season's staples with a morbidly merry, tongue-in-cheek sense of humor. |
| The Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenA fiendishly entertaining Christmas yarn rooted in Northern European legend and lore, complete with a not-so-jolly old St. Nick informed more by the Brothers Grimm than Norman Rockwell. |
| The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe focus of this bizarre Finnish fairy tale - as black as anything the Brothers Grimm could have dreamed up - is a sinister old codger who chews off ears and whose demon minion kidnaps innocent children. Ho ho no! |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertA rather brilliant lump of coal for your stocking hung by the fireside with care. How else to explain an R-rated Santa Claus origin story crossed with "The Thing"? |
| Eugene Weekly (OR)Molly TempletonDirector Jalmari Helander melds the Krampus myth perfectly onto that moment of childhood when belief is all the stronger for being challenged by skepticism. |
| FEARnetScott WeinbergA wonderfully strange concoction of dry comedy, weird horror, and Christmas-related craziness. |
| Caution SpoilersSarah CartlandAn unnerving, funny and inventive Santa origins story set on the border between Finland and Russia, it reminds us that most fairy stories are truly dark. No one seems surprised when the border between myth and modernity breaks down too. |
| Kansas City StarRobert W. ButlerHere's a cheery lump of coal for your stocking. |
