Santa Claus Conquers The Martians....an appreciation thread

This has one of my favorite jokes of theirs, where the head evil alien is telling his underling running the visual scanner what to look for to find Santa Claus and says something like "I'm looking for a man wearing a red velvet suit with a fur collar and black boots". Crow (I think it is) then replies "You just described Huggy Bear".

Geoff

 

A group of 8th graders
in Montgomery think
it's the greatest motion
picture ever made .

 

I do not think this is the greatest movie ever made because it really isn't, I enjoy it for the "so bad it's good" deal.

 

If somebody paid me to i might actually watch this.

 

S A N T A....C L A U S....Hooray for Santy Claus!

 

...Cha-Cha-Cha!

 

One can actually find the real honest-to-goodness soundtrack version of the theme song on an LP that was issued on the GOLDEN RECORD label. AMAZING to hear it in full fidelity!

 

There is a RapidShare needle drop of the album posted on the WWW as well. http://ernienotbert.blogspot.com/2005/11/santa-martians-huh.html

 

You can download an audio movie of this at http://www.emusic.com/album/Audio-Movie-Santa-Claus-Conquers-The-Martians-MP3-Download/11176917.html or iTunes and other online stores.

 

I like the punk cover of the theme song, performed by Sloppy Seconds, found here:

 

In England around 84 we had a new channel start up called Channel 4. One of the first programs was one presented by Michael Medved called the ten worst films of all time and I think this was in the top ten. The series went on for ten weeks and was presented to a live audience in a kind of film school way, except there were loads of laughs. I liked Medved's delivery.

others were
plan nine from outer space
wild women of wongo
godzilla versus smog monster
man with two heads - one with ray milland in

I can't recall anymore

 

Are we getting politically correct with martians now too?

 

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

I first saw this movie on Mystery Science Theater 3000 but I've grown to love it on it's own without Joel And The 'Bots' riffing.

Since it's in the public domain; you can watch it for free here:

http://www.archive.org/details/santa_claus_conquers_the_martians

Anyone else like it?

 

I saw it when it was current. I remember very little other than the names Bomar and Girmar.

 

What ?? You didn't recognize a young Pia Zadora as Girmar ?
(That's her on the right.) Her finest role.

 

Clearly a case where a sequel might've been justified. (Move over Barbarella.)

 

Haiku belongs in the "poetry" forum.

 

The Worst Of Hollywood (1983)

 

it was screened an Australian TV channel SBS a few years ago on Christmas day.Very funny

 

We just watched the Mystery Science Theater 3000 version of this "classic" last night. We have the Cinematic Titanic version also. I think that the CT folks got a better print that they used in the MST3K days.

But the MST3K edition with the bots has some classic stuff from the Satellite of Love. Like when they asked Crow what he wants for Christmas & he replies: "I want to get to decide who lives & who dies!" Their It's A Patrick Swayze Christmas" carol was funny too!

I honestly think it needs the riffing, so I have just one word: lentils.

 

For those of you who have blu-ray players, There's a new release titled "Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale" & it includes "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" as a bonus. Check it out.: http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film3/blu-ray_reviews55/rare_exports_blu-ray.htm

 

"...and Blitzen, and Nixon..."

"Um, yes... What's in the pipe, Santa?"

 

I'm sure you guys will appreciate this other Christmas classic.

Santa Claus And The Ice Cream Bunny

 

I just purchased this Christmas DVD Box that has this movie in it. It is the big reason I purchased this. I first watched this movie on Elvira's Movie Macabre a while back.

http://www.amazon.com/Holiday-Famil...1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1324679982&sr=1-1

 

I have that as well...the quality is not good on that set.
I wonder if it's good anywhere on DVD?.