10 Weirdly Feel-Good Horror Movies With Happy Endings

The Movie: The good news is that Santa Claus is indeed real. The bad news? He isn’t the rosy-cheeked plump dude we’ve come to think of him as but a horned beast more akin to Satan than Santa who enjoys dishing out punishment to naughty kids and is accompanied by an army of bearded, naked elf helpers. Or at least that’s the premise in festive Finnish horror Rare Exports.

Set in deepest, darkest Lapland the film sees plucky young protagonist Pietari discover the true meaning of Christmas when a shady American company conducting excavations on a nearby mountain unearths said satanic Santa Claus and his horrid horde of elves from an icy tomb they’ve been encased in for hundreds of years.

When the local kids start going missing, Pietari must convince his dad and their parents that Father Christmas is very real and very nasty before their kids presumably become snack food for Santa.

The Happy Ending: Armed with dynamite, Pietari’s dad and his mates blow Santa to smithereens while Pietari discovers his captured friends and craftily uses them as bait to lure the elven horde into an enclosure.

With a couple hundred of suspiciously Santa-like elves on their hands, Pietari’s dad and his mates set up a lucrative business that domesticates the elves and cures them of their ill will towards kids before exporting them across the globe to be used as shopping mall Santas. It’s got us full of Christmas cheer just thinking about it.