THE ADVENT CALENDAR OF CHRISTMAS FILMS 6: Santa Claus vs The Martians
aka Santa Claus Conquers The Martians, which gives away a bit too much of the plot in my opinion. I would imagine that this film is exactly what Mystery Science Theatre 3000 was designed for: schlocky half arsed plots, lousy set design and a star who went on to be well know (though Pia Zadora is not exactly boffo box office). The Zucker’s parodied it in Amazon Women On The Moon , and to be fair their version was about as funny, and potentially less engaging. The kind of film cable televsion was invented for, the kind of film that the day-glo sixties spawned remorselessly. A terrible kind of film in other words: but how can you hate a film with dialogue as direct as: “You’ll never get away with this, you Martian!“.
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