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"Santa Claus saves Christmas for the Children of the World!" Also known as "Santa Claus Defeats the Aliens". "The Martians kidnap Santa because there is nobody on Mars to give their children presents." Directed by Nicholas Webster, written by Paul L. Jacobson (story) and Glenville Mareth, 1964. One of the worst films ever made, however it can be very funny if you have enough sense of humour. It's in public domain and available at Archive.org and Public Domain Torrents.

And, from Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus_Conquers_the_Martians

Also, here's Wikipedia on "worst films."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Films_considered_the_worst_ever

You don't understand...for white-bread America, dude, this was Nightmare before Christmas dinner left out on the buffet table....this shit scared the-ever-livin-fuck out of my cousins....(cause of the made up shit that went along with xmasat my crib), anyhoo, YOW! ahhhhh mammorees!

ok , who ever woke up within 3 days before xmas, when u were a sprout, and saw this twisted shit on the telly, raise yer hand-how bout the brits??_Ever seen this?? uhhh forgive dot , if u r, dontpay that closeattention tothebrittttish...

It came out the year I was born. I'm surprised I hadn't run across it until now. I watched a lot of television when I was younger.

real gone, cinematic snapshot... Nick paid for celluloid instead of therapy..apparently had issues with the other Nick!

I think they featured this on MST3K.

>>I think they featured this on MST3K.>>

The Wikipedia article does mentions that. In fact it cites movies that have had this movie playing on a television.

I set aside a time slot to watch this when I was eleven years old. That Xmas I went a little insane and wrote out a schedule for the entire 72 hours leading up to Xmas morning. I figured if I had something to entertain myself for every moment until then, I might be able to withstand the excrutiating anticipation of gettting the Captain Power toys I'd asked for. Anyhow, when it finally came on at 1AM Xmas morning, I watched about ten minutes of it before realizing it had no redeeming value whatsoever, not even as tacky kitsch.

Yeah, watching this without Joel and the bots just isn't the same.

What I oft wonder about these types of films is... did they know they were making crap? Was it a concious decision or was there some amount of self delusion involved?

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