Saturday, December 26, 2015

Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale, 2010 - ★★★★½

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I feel like this is my favorite Holiday horror movie.

Santa is dead. He has been for centuries. But now, a team is digging in his grave to get him back. And he comes back...

I've heard about this a lot before. I have not seen the short this is based on yet.

The story is great. It's another one of those very inventive movies that does something I have never seen before. Also I feel like Krampus got at least a little inspiration through this movie.

I think I've written this before but I don't usually like children as the protagonists of movies because they always behave kind of weird, in a way that no 6 to 10 year old child would behave. But this is one of those movies were the kid behaves believably. He doesn't behave like I would have at that age, but he grew up with a hunter father who toughened him up for sure (I wouldn't have handled a shotgun at that age).

The rest of the actors are great, they all feel real and are totally bad-ass. It's shot well and all looks good.

Also there are some really great shots that I won't say because it's spoilers.

Some CGI-shots in the ending don't look that real, but hey, it's a Finnish movie from 2010, and I can totally forgive that.

This movie was packing up till the end, with a great story and some uncomfortable humor.

I'm rating this 4.5 out of 5 stars and a big like plus recommendation.

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