festive cheer: he sees you when you’re sleeping...
this one gets at how deeply creepy the notion of Santa Claus is
If you like bone-dry humor, paganistic horror, and off-kilter holiday movies, do not miss the Finnish black-comedy thriller Rare Exports.
From my 2010 review:
You simply need to see it to believe that anyone would conceive of such an outlandishly demented Christmas fantasy.
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In playing with the creepy roots of the story of the magical being whom we today t…