Hooray for Santa Claus!

The Christmas season brings out a lot of holiday related movies and few have been maligned as much as the cult classic, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. Honestly, you have to love a cheesy title like that and everything this ultra-low budget curiosity from 1964. K-mar, the discount Martian, leads a mission to Earth to kidnap Saint Nick for the red planet. His men wear bad green make-up and helmets made from broken plumbing pipes. They also take a few earth children who are harassed by a cardboard robot and a fat man in a polar bear costume. Lacking special effects, the Martian baddies zap Kris Kringle's elves with a special freeze gun. At least it also shuts up Mrs. Claus for a while as well to stop her mindless babbling. Some movies are really bad, but this is a good kind of bad and worthy of watching just for the sheer number of insults any audience can hurl at it during a screening. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!