{"id":236947,"date":"2025-11-01T01:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T01:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/236947\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T01:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T01:25:08","slug":"finnish-horror-comedy-red-snow-gifts-a-vampire-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/236947\/","title":{"rendered":"Finnish Horror-Comedy &#8216;Red Snow&#8217; Gifts a Vampire for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/reviews\/3699603\/sundance-review-hatching-shows-cracks-perfection-modern-horror-fairy-tale\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hatching<\/a> writer Ilja Rautsi is making his feature directorial debut on the Finnish horror-comedy Red Snow, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.screendaily.com\/news\/charades-heads-to-afm-with-japanese-shark-thriller-charon-and-finnish-christmas-horror-comedy-red-snow\/5210451.article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Screen Daily<\/a> has learned.<\/p>\n<p>It follows a 16-year-old girl who dreams of a glittering vampire prince but instead is met on the night before Christmas by a balding, beer-bellied 49-year-old bloodsucker in a Santa suit who invades homes and devours entire families.<\/p>\n<p>Jussi Award-winning actor Hannu-Pekka Bj\u00f6rkman stars alongside a rising cast led by Anni Iikkanen.<\/p>\n<p>Finland\u2019s Bufo, Estonia\u2019s Allfilm, and Sweden\u2019s Hobab produce in association with the Finnish Film Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Red Snow is currently in production in Tallinn, Estonia, and is expected to be completed by the end of next year.<\/p>\n<p>B-Plan Distribution will release the film in Finland, while Paris-based outfit Charades is launching sales at the upcoming American Film Market.<\/p>\n<p>Rautsi\u2019s 2018 short film Helsinki Mansplaining Massacre played at more than 100 festivals and won over a dozen prizes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hatching writer Ilja Rautsi is making his feature directorial debut on the Finnish horror-comedy Red Snow, Screen Daily&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,100182,2839,100183,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-236947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-ilja-rautsi","tag-movies","tag-red-snow","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}