Santa Claus is at the front door trying to talk his way into a family’s house in Variety’s exclusive clip […]
Santa Claus is at the front door trying to talk his way into a family’s house in Variety’s exclusive clip from Red Snow. He needs someone to invite him in because, well, he’s a vampire. And who’s going to leave Santa standing outside on Christmas Eve?
We first covered Red Snow out of Cannes in May, when Finnish filmmaker Ilja Rautsi (Hatching) told Variety how he landed on the idea. “You invite him in, just like a vampire, and then he can eat your entire family.”
The one person in the house who might actually want a vampire to show up is Johanna (Anni Iikkanen), a 16-year-old emo kid who dreams of meeting her very own Twilight prince. The guy in the Santa suit is Martti (Hannu-Pekka Björkman), a balding, beer-bellied 49-year-old who eats families.
Rautsi told the site that some viewers have been surprised by the sexual undertones of putting a vampire in a Santa suit. “It’s set in this absurd, outrageous world that hopefully allows me to get away with it,” he said. “It’s a gruesome Christmas present.”
