Sci-Fi Santa Cinema Gives Martians the White Fur-Trimmed Boot

Look out for a UFO without a squad of reindeer guiding it.

It turns out some martians aren't into Santa Claus. It's not because he disturbingly isolates himself in the middle of the Arctic Ocean for 99.7% of the year, keeps lists with little boys' and girls' names on them and sneaks into people's homes in the middle of the night. It's because his fun loving "Ho! Ho! Ho!"s could corrupt the martian children and destroy the race's strict culture. This is all documented in a movie playing at Landmark Sunshine Cinema on December 16th and 17th at midnight.

The 1964 Santa Claus Conquers the Martians is only part of Santa's Cool Holiday Film Festival. Listed as one of The Fifty Worst Films of All Time, it's so terrible that a janitor and his robot pals Crow and Tom Servo were forced to watch it as part of a twisted experiment on Comedy Central. Will a new digital restoration of its "space-blazing color" make it a better movie? No, it'll be as funny as ever. The night also provides such cinematic seasonal sweetness as old timey cartoons (like Rudolph's first screen appearance in 1947) and other offbeat mid-century clips (like "Greetings From The Theater Management" trailers). It all Santa caps off with a bouncing ball Jingle Bells sing-along.

The two-hour merry movie marvel costs only ten bucks. You could spend that on 40 candy canes, but you'll turn green and get mistaken for a moronic martian.

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