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Old 12-23-2006, 09:42 AM
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Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1966)

Okay, actually it was made in 1964. Yeah I know, this belongs in another section. But really it would get lost there, and folks need to know. That's right, YOU! YOU need to know. It's for your own good, after all.

I strongly urge you folks to get this DVD if you can...if you have the 50-movie Sci-Fi Classics set, it is on there, and that is a pretty good version too, with very little missing. I got a cheep copy at the 99 Cents Only store last night...but whoever put that one together did something ungodly with the opening credits and the song...although the rest of the movie was basically intact.

This is known far and wide as one of the stupidest movies ever made. However, if you enjoy the pleasures bad films have to offer, you may find this one goes down pretty well. It even has a little bit of the Christmas spirit, so to speak, lurking within it...somewhere...

Some of the actors look like they couldn't standing working on such a cheap film (a couple of them look like they have been drinking a little). And in the last scene, the Martian leader Kimar has that speech about how Santa has brought "the Christmas Spirit to all of us" and I swear he looks like he's about to rip off his silly headgear and scream, because he has trouble getting the line out through clenched teeth and a forced smile. I admire that these actors stuck with it and did it, because in its own way, this is a Christmas classic.
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Old 12-23-2006, 09:49 AM
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Never heard of it but I'm allways up for a cheap thrill!! ;)
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Old 12-23-2006, 10:01 AM
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There's enough stuff here to make your toes curl pretty good:

http://www.badmovies.org/movies/santamars/

A lot of the dialogue is very foolish, and I am fond of one bit in particular with the King Martian "Kimar" chewing out goofy Martian slacker Droppo..."Droppo, you good for nothing! Droppo, you are the laziest man on Mars!" or something like that.
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Old 12-23-2006, 10:08 AM
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A true holiday classic. So stupid and awful that it comes back around the bend into somthing approaching sublime. I need to track down a copy to show the kids pronto!
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Old 12-23-2006, 10:19 AM
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It's Christmelicious (look THAT word up on Yoo-Toob and you'll find some pretty funny stuff!).
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I saw a name like that on the tv guide yesterday on "world movies"...something incredibly alike the name, but not.
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Old 12-23-2006, 11:08 AM
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Okay, actually it was made in 1964. Yeah I know, this belongs in another section. But really it would get lost there, and folks need to know. That's right, YOU! YOU need to know. It's for your own good, after all.

I strongly urge you folks to get this DVD if you can...if you have the 50-movie Sci-Fi Classics set, it is on there, and that is a pretty good version too, with very little missing. I got a cheep copy at the 99 Cents Only store last night...but whoever put that one together did something ungodly with the opening credits and the song...although the rest of the movie was basically intact.

This is known far and wide as one of the stupidest movies ever made. However, if you enjoy the pleasures bad films have to offer, you may find this one goes down pretty well. It even has a little bit of the Christmas spirit, so to speak, lurking within it...somewhere...

Some of the actors look like they couldn't standing working on such a cheap film (a couple of them look like they have been drinking a little). And in the last scene, the Martian leader Kimar has that speech about how Santa has brought "the Christmas Spirit to all of us" and I swear he looks like he's about to rip off his silly headgear and scream, because he has trouble getting the line out through clenched teeth and a forced smile. I admire that these actors stuck with it and did it, because in its own way, this is a Christmas classic.

isnt this the one the Pia Zadora is in - when she was a child ?
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Old 12-23-2006, 12:01 PM
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Yup. Pia Zadora's one of the children in this craptacular holiday funfest. Some of Voldar's lines in this movie are monumentally funny.
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isnt this the one the Pia Zadora is in - when she was a child ?
Yup

http://imdb.com/title/tt0058548/


And Phalanx, it's also known as Santa Claus Defeats the Aliens, so it may be the same movie you saw in the tv guide
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Old 12-23-2006, 12:06 PM
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This is "must-watch cinema" if ever there was.

I also understand this one is in the public domain, and is available from a number of sites for those who don't want to go to the shops so close to Christmas. The Internet Archive has it in a number of formats, there for the taking.

http://www.archive.org/details/santa...s_the_martians

I think it is also to be found on a number of the public domain/legal torrent sites.
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