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So the movie takes the story of Sinterklaas, অথবা Santa Claus, and distorts it into a dark ফ্যান্টাসি world. Instead of Sinterklaas being a good natured soul who delivers gifts to people on Christmas, he is the murderous ghost of Niklas who, with his evil ghost gang, goes around murdering hundreds (Literally hundreds) of people when his holiday is celebrated on a full moon… Well… It’s an original take on the story. So, the story centers around a police officer named Goert whose family was killed দ্বারা Sinterklaas on one fateful বড়দিন night. Now, not celebrating the Sinterklaas tradition, he is trying to stop people from celebrating it before Sinterklaas strikes again, but of course, no one believes Goert when he says that the evil ghost of Niklas and his evil horse gang are going to murder people on the streets, and must now do what he can to prevent Sinterklaas from attacking. Now, for some reason, that plot doesn’t happen much in this movie. It’s mostly thrown to the side. Most of the movie is mostly about Sinterklaas and how he goes around doing his killings around the holiday season. Kinda ironic, considering that the poor bastard is barely in the movie at all.
What I find to be the most disappointing part of this entire movie is Sinterklaas himself. Not that he’s a bad monster. In fact, he’s a great monster. প্রদর্শিত হচ্ছে him in a modern time, in that old centuries old uniform on a white horse, just standing in the snowfall at night, without revealing his face is just really creepy. He really shows himself as being a very creepy character. He’s even able to travel across roof tops and through walls, really প্রদর্শিত হচ্ছে how he really is a ghost. This is the best depiction of a ghost I’ve seen in awhile. And when his face is revealed, it’s pretty damn good. The makeup on him looks very professional and well done. Sure, I like subtlety and this does kinda ruin it দ্বারা revealing his face, but I can’t deny that the makeup looks really damn good on him. Unfortunately, it’s easy to appreciate something that আপনি rarely see. And that is exactly what Sinterklaas is. We rarely see this guy in the movie at all. We see the fear he brings in people and we see just how scared people are of him, but not much of him, really. But, this does kinda make him আরো scary, as seeing what effects he causes on people can be just as good as seeing the monster himself. I guess I both প্রণয় and hate that I don’t get to see Sinterklaas much. I প্রণয় seeing the fear people are in in this movie, but I hate that we don’t get আরো Sinterklaas.
Well, let’s talk about something else here. I প্রণয় the অভিনয় in this movie. It never feels like the actors are trying too hard, but it never feels like they don’t care either. They always feel genuine. Especially the cop Goert. Sure, his backstories cliched, “the villain killed my family and I want revenge” and all that, but at least he has some talent in acting. The violence in this movie is also really শীর্ষ notch. The gore looks just like what you’d expect from a movie about a murderous gang of ghosts lead দ্বারা the Dutch version of Santa…. What? But, unfortunately, the movie feels very limited. It feels like the director was limited on what he wanted to do, and the story feels very unfinished in most places. আপনি can just tell that this movie had hundreds of restrictions put on it. That’s probably because parents hated this movie because of its depiction of Sinterklaas. Yep, it’s Silent Night, Deadly Night all over again, with director Dick Maas argument being that if parents could convince their kids that Sinterklaas exists, they can convince them that the man in the movie wasn’t Sinterklaas. Well damn, Dick Maas didn’t fuck around. Sadly, the movie studio didn’t seem to agree, and just seemed to his creative work. And I thought American চলচ্চিত্র were restricted.
Sint is a movie that I had a lot of fun watching. Is it the best movie out there, no, but I had a lot of fun with it. I প্রণয় the stupid action scenes, and the effects on the monsters and with the violence. It really makes me want to look into Dick Maas other চলচ্চিত্র like De Lift অথবা Amsterdamned. He definitely seems to have peaked my interest. I’d say, if আপনি like horror চলচ্চিত্র that don’t take themselves seriously, than this is the movie for you. I recommend watching it. Barely anyone watches it, since it is a very obscure movie, and the only people who seem to have watched are from the country of Netherlands. Maybe one day, we can get this movie to be recognized দ্বারা an English audience… অথবা not, I don’t know. Take care.
