Success for dark Santa movie
The Finnish horror movie ”Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale”, which was shot in Målselv, Northern Norway, has turned out to be a success and gets mostly positive reviews around the world.
“Rare Exports” is not your average family friendly Christmas film; rather it’s a humorous and twisted Finnish black comedy featuring a nasty, evil Santa and not so helpful elves. In director Jalmari Helander’s movie Santa Claus is an evil elf who traps and kills children.
Watch the movie’s English trailer at the movie’s web site
The movie opened on December 3 and is now being showed in countries like the U.S., Great Britain, Norway, Russia (where it is called “Santa for sale”) and Australia. It has also been sold to several other countries. In Finland “Rare Exports” beat “Harry Potter” at the box office, Helsingin Sanomat writes.
The movie has been shown on several international film festivals and won the price for best movie at the Sitges Film Festival.
“Rare exports” was shot in the Norwegian FilmCamp in Målselv, Troms. It is situated in a former army camp which has been transformed into a film production area. Some 15 movies have so far been shot in the spectacular landscape surrounding the camp.