Sint (2010)

	Also Known As: Saint
	Year of first release: 2010
	Director: Dick Maas (The Lift, Amsterdamned, Down)
	Actors: Egbert Jan Weeber, Bert Luppes, Caro Lenssen
	Country: NL
	Genre: Horror
	Conditions of visioning: 13.09.2011, cinema St Ex, Strasbourg, SFFF2011
Synopsis: The story of a Santa Claus that comes back every 42 years to terrorize and murder the good people of Amsterdam.
Review: Dick Maas is known to do everything in his movies: directing, editing, music. The movie was sold as a slasher, and indeed contains some murder scenes, but doesn't follow all the rules of the genre, in particular there are no teenagers smoking pot (in Amsterdam!) and screwing around. I would qualify the movie as average, especially because the motivation of the characters is not very strong, not even at the end which is quite disappointing. I have later on watched Rare Exports, Finish movie released one year before with a similar topic (nasty Santa), and found it much better.
Rating: 4 /10