BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Noutions Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Seth_Rogue_One A missed opportunity here with the dutch movie Sint aka Saint.A horror-movie about an evil Santa is nothing new but this one turns it into more of a spooky creature type of movie, who's for the more-part of the movie kept in the background and only shows up when he's gonna slay some new victims.The kills overall though aren't all that satisfying and many scenes just ends with hints of the people dying in the scene and stuff leaving the rest of the scenes for the imagination of the viewer.There's also way too much focus on police doing a bad job investigating and stuff, there's about as much police-work without the killer Santa than there is actual scenes with him. And come on, no one watches this as a crime movie or a mystery, we already know from the gate who's responsible so what's the point? It's not all bad though, the movie looks rather neat and the acting isn't terrible and it had all the potential to become an enjoyable b- movie but it just doesn't deliver the goods and get boring a lot, especially in the second half where you expect the action to finally kick off but doesn't.Oh and the killer Santa doesn't actually talk so don't expect him to ask if you've been naughty or nice, but I guess this Santa doesn't really care either way anyway.

kosmasp 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.

Mark Vessey In an era of the successful Grindhouse revivals, The Asylum and the increasingly crazy J-spolitations, it would appear that schlock is on the rise...but "Saint" makes us remember that not all purposefully silly B- movies can be thoroughly entertaining. When over-the-top gore, crazy characters, hilarious dialog and preposterous plots are what make these movies work, "Saint" only nails the preposterous plot, concerning a murderous, zombified St. Nic going on a killing spree through Amsterdam. Typing this out, it sounds like it should be great fun but the fact is that "Saint" is not gory or funny enough to be a successful B-movie.

trashgang What a problem this flick had. I understand that so many people have problems with changing Santa Claus from a good man into something evil. But there were so many forums about destroying this flick just because the poster used to promote Sint had an evil Sint on a horse. Naturally, some were also afraid that children were going to ask questions about Sint. It was finally released last year (2010) with the so-called evil poster but once it was out of the cinema's there were troubles again releasing it on DVD. Finally, all the troubles are over and Sint saw it's final release last week.I knew that it was going to be a horror and I know the director Dick Maas from his flicks The Lift and Amsterdamned. But what he did here was for me really excellent. For people not living in Belgium or the Netherlands the actors will be unknown and they all speak Dutch but I guess that they will release it with English subs.Also the score used will have some rarities in it, most of them are famous Dutch chants to celebrate Sinterklaas. I would say, just think of Santa Claus. First we get to know what happened many years ago with the Holy man and what he is doing as revenge. And let me say, he does some revenge. It's sometimes just on the border of gore but you will see decapitations and axes and machetes going into bodies. The red stuff do flows, sometimes it's syrup sometimes it's CGI. And naturally there's a lot of CGI but I don't have any problems with it because Sint is running on roofs with his horse. For me it's one of the better 'Nederhorrors" for the moment. Just let's hope that it isn't going to be full moon when Sint is visiting our country...Gore 3/5 Nudity 0/5 Story 4/5 Effects 4/5 Comedy 1/5