The White Reindeer
About The White Reindeer
A newly-married woman becomes frustrated as her husband, a reindeer herder for an Arctic village, spends much of his time away. Desperate for affection, she visits a shaman who offers a potion that makes her irresistibly desirable, with unexpected and deadly results.
Erik Blomberg's The White Reindeer is a 1952 fantasy horror film. Its themes are folk horror, folklore, reindeer, and shaman.
Mirjami Kuosmanen stars as Pirita, Kalervo Nissilä as Aslak, Åke Lindman as Forester, and Jouni Tapiola as Niila. It runs 68 minutes and was released in July 1952.
The screenplay is by Erik Blomberg and Mirjami Kuosmanen. In the United States it streams on AMC+, AMC+ Amazon Channel, and AMC Plus Apple TV channel.
The Wailing, The Medium, and The Lair of the White Worm make useful companions to The White Reindeer, all filed under vampire. TMDB voters put it at 6.6 out of 10 across 87 votes.