Such a frustrating disappointment

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A Disappointing Continuation

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Sint (Saint) is a solid little Sinterklaas based Christmas horror-comedy out of the Netherlands...directed by the aptly named, Dick Maas.According to the myth, on December 5th, once every 23 years- when the full moon falls upon this day- Saint Niklas would sail to the Netherlands, from Spain, in order to murder people and kidnap their children...which he would bring back with him on his ship, to enslave.One man knows this tale to be true first hand, for he witnessed Saint Niklas murder his entire family 23 years ago. Now he works as an inspector for the police...and has been trying to warn his superiors about what lies in store for them this December 5th- but they think he is just traumatized from his childhood ordeal.Thinking this is all an old legend, the rest of the population goes about their holiday business; dressing up like Sinterklaas' and Black Piet's; holding frat parties and such.Only when people start getting slayed by a Catholic dude on horseback and his legion of black axe-wielding demons; do people realize what's going on.And there is only one way to send him back from whence he came...to stop the murders, and prevent any more children from being kidnapped, once and for all.This Dutch Christmas treat is well worth a watch. It's a nice blend of horror and comedy, with lots of gore, and some creative kills. But the ending is kind of lame. It really felt rushed, and forced (unnecessarily), by the time it rolled around. But that only mildly detracts from it's overall entertainment value.Check it out.6 out of 10.

Storywise "Sint" is kind of a rip-off of the killer Santa classic "Silent Night, Deadly Night", but the comparisons end there. While the latter is only still around because it's laughably bad, this one has actual redeeming features like a dark, moody atmosphere and a little bit of humour at exactly the right times. Writer/Director Dick Maas loves to toy with our expectations and every guess you'll make about the story developments will probably be wrong. For instance, you think tremendous hottie Caro Lenssen will serve as the Laurie Strode of this story and the finale will be her fighting off the unstoppable villain, but in fact she barely comes into play in the rest of the story (unfortunately...). Our final girls are an old drunk and a sex-crazed teenage boy, that's pretty creative to say the least. The production values of this movie are also surprisingly high. For a movie that "only" cost four million to make, the effects look pretty amazing. The killings are just relentlessly gory, Dick Maas definitely burned the candle on both ends to disgust his audience. "Sint" is one of those rare horror comedies that manage to be both scary and funny, most can't even get one of the two right. A thrilling ride.

In 1492 on December 5th during a full moon Saint Nick raids a town stealing children, we see his henchmen crawling down chimneys to get into homes, nice touch. Well the locals are having none of this and thus burn him and his boat to the ground. Every 32 yeas on December the 5th there is a full moon and ST Nick comes back for more children. ludicrous but yet great fun. The acting is great and the scenes well made. The set pieces are good with great gore deaths. The film is not quite sure what it wants to be. At first it looks like ST Nick is here for the children but then kills off a certain band of students. Is it a slasher flick? and why go for these particular teens? Then St Nick is galloping across rooftops mummy-like getting chased by the coppers. It all adds to the charm. Hopefully the next film will have more of a budget. Ride On

You are not always getting what the title is literally suggesting as you know. So "Saint" has to be taken lightly in that regard (but I'm guessing you know that from the trailer and/or the synopsis here). And seeing the genre of the movie, you can guess where this one is heading, so don't hold that against it.Still quite a few movies have gone that way in recent times (Rare Exports being a superior one) and you'be forgiven if you only wanted to see one of those movies (which as you can tell should be the other movie). But if you don't mind that and like to watch movies in general, you will be entertained with this one too. It really is more than decent and quite funny too.