Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale tells the story of people living near the Korvatunturi mountain, Finland who discover the secret behind Santa Claus, the secret no one should know about.
7 July 1941, Metsämaa, Finland
1959
15 October 1940, Tallinn, USSR
23 August 1968, Helsinki, Finland
14 February 1954, Norway
December 14, 2014
[A] deliciously loopy oddball of a film.
December 14, 2014
Rare Exports also twists the season's staples with a morbidly merry, tongue-in-cheek sense of humor.
December 23, 2010
"Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale" is a rather brilliant lump of coal for your stocking hung by the fireside with care.
December 14, 2014
A James Bond movie, fairy tale and potentially a full blown horror story rolled into one, if you enjoyed the original Swedish vampire thriller Let The Right One In, you'll find much to admire here.
December 26, 2015
OK. it's a silly folklore tale. But I found it both pleasingly absurd and funny.
December 14, 2014
The flaws of Rare Export offer an important reminder that looking good on YouTube does not provide qualifications for a bigger screen.
December 09, 2013
For anyone who can look a little askance at the monster that contemporary Christmas has become, this artfully made Finnish tale is -- I kid you not -- a real treat.
December 14, 2014
The 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.
December 14, 2014
This dark, haunting and cold tale is more of a comic horror movie for all ages than a happy children's story.
January 05, 2011
Santa shows his dark side in this wildly idiosyncratic horror flick from Finnish writer-director Jalmari Helander.
December 14, 2014
I'm at a loss for words for how cool this is. It's a Killer Santa. Killer Santa, people. It's a great concept.
January 05, 2011
Conceived with winking humor and a terrific visual style, the pic is a rare treat.
