Charades brings Finnish filmmaker Ilja Rautsi‘s Christmas-set horror pic Red Snow to Cannes and delivers what they’re calling the world’s first vampire Santa Claus.

“In Finland, sixteen-year-old emo teen Johanna dreams of a glittering twilight vampire prince. What she gets instead is Martti — a balding, beer-bellied 49-year-old bloodsucker who slips into a Santa suit to gain entry to...