Friday, 3 December 2010

3rd December: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)

This is the strangest idea in the history of film... I think!? This is 'Santa Claus Conquers the Martians' from 1964 and it really has to be seen, to be believed.

Synopsis: Martian children have become unhappy watching Earth television programs showing Christmas cheer among humans. The wise old Martian Chochem tells the adults that Mars needs Santa Claus to bring fun and joy to their children. A group of Martians arrives at the North Pole and kidnaps Santa, but the angry Martian Voldar wants to get rid of him instead. With the help of two Earth children and the clumsy Martian Dropo, Santa defeats Voldar and brings happiness to Mars!

My thoughts on this film are basically that its fucking weird, I presume the idea for this film was brought about by the Americans fascination with the Moon and Mars during the space race with the Soviets, but how it got accepted and made, your guess is as good as mine, however its kinda ok, the children's acting is poor but that's understandable and yeah its cheesy and silly but that's part of the charm, anyway I think its worth a watch even just to say you've seen it.

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