A Finnish folk horror action comedy about feral santas, ancient horrors unearthed from their icy tomb in the Arctic mountains, and plucky kids with hockey gear? Heck yes that makes our Christmas Horror list! This is the first feature from the director who later made Sisu (with the same lead actor), and it features much of the same mixture of slick Hollywood-inspired action antics with deadpan, black as night Finnish humor, but with a hefty helping of John Carpenter horror inspiration. And old man dong. So much old man dong.

A foreign company, Subzero, is conducting mysterious excavations at the top of a mountain on the Finnish-Russian border which according to local folklore is the location of Santa's workshop. Local boys Juuso and Pietari spy on them, but leave as the workers start using explosives. Later, locals find hundreds of their reindeer dead, possibly killed by wolves, and head to the dig site to seek explanations, but find it abandoned, a huge, deep pit left behind. A wolf trap set by Pietari's father catches and seemingly kills a skinny, naked, bearded old man, but the man turns out to still be alive, and quite aggressive. The gang tries to sell the old man to the Subzero company, claiming he must be Santa, but the leader of the dig operation tells them it's actually an elf, and as many more elves appear and attack, the truth of what Santa Claus actually is becomes apparent, and the problem can only be solved using helicopters and explosives.