Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians is a 1964 science fiction comedy film that regularly appears on lists of the worst films ever made. It is regularly featured in the bottom 100 list on the Internet Movie Database, and was featured in an episode of the 1986 syndicated series, the Canned Film Festival. It was directed by Nicholas Webster, and it stars John Call as Santa Claus. It also includes an 8yearold Pia Zadora playing the role of one of the Martian children and also marks the first documented appearance of Mrs. Claus in a motion picture Doris Rich plays the role, coming three weeks before the TV special Rudolph the RedNosed Reindeer also featured the character.
The story involves the people of Mars, including Momar Mom Martian and Kimar King Martian. Theyre worried that their children Girmar Girl Martian and Bomar Boy Martian are watching too much Earth television, most notably station KIDTVs interview with Santa Claus in his workshop at the North Pole. Consulting the ancient 800yearold Martian sage Chochem a Yiddish word meaning genius, they are advised that the children of Mars are growing distracted due to the societys overly rigid structure from infancy, all their education is fed into their brains through machines and they are not allowed individuality or freedom of thought.Chochem notes that he had seen this coming for centuries, and says the only way to help the children is to allow them their freedom and be allowed to have fun. To do this, they need a Santa Claus figure, like on Earth. Leaving the Chochems cave, the Martian leaders decide to abduct Santa Claus from Earth and bring him to Mars. As the Martians could not distinguish between all the fake Santas, they kidnapped two children to find the real one. Once this is accomplished, one Martian, Voldar, who strongly disagrees with the idea, repeatedly tries to kill Santa Claus along with the two kidnapped Earth children. He believes that Santa is corrupting the children of Mars and turning them away from Mars original glory. ........
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