The wicked Christmas tale opening this December
Shock Till You Drop has your first look at this bizarro one-sheet for the Oscilloscope Laboratories release Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (opening December 2). You can watch a few trailers via this link.
Written and directed by Jalmari Helander, the film doesn’t paint Santa Claus in the most positive light. In fact, he looks pretty damn creepy in the poster image below.
Synopsis: It’s the eve of Christmas in northern Finland and an “archeological” dig has just unearthed the real Santa Claus. But this particular Santa isn’t the one you want coming to town. When all the local children begin mysteriously disappearing, young Pietari and his father Rauno, a reindeer hunter by trade, capture the mythological being and attempt to sell Santa to the misguided leader of the multinational corporation sponsoring the dig. Santa’s elves, however, will stop at nothing to free their fearless leader from captivity. What ensues is a wildly humorous nightmare – a fantastically bizarre polemic on modern day morality. “Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale” is a re-imagining of the most classic of all childhood fantasies, and is a darkly comic gem soon to be required perennial holiday viewing.
Source: Shock Till You Drop
