Sunday, December 25, 2011

Elvira’s Movie Macabre: Santa Clause Conquers the Martians, Beast From Haunted Cave

Elvira (Cassandra Peterson) has made a career out of making fun of really bad movies, but she may have met her match with Santa Clause Conquers the Martians. Directed by Nicholas Webster, this low-low-low budget film follows a band of Martian dads as they try to kidnap Old St. Nick so their children back home (who learn about Christmas from watching pirated earth TV) can have a Merry Christmas. It’s just the kind of movie that Elvira can so delightfully skewer, with one exception: It’s actually so bad, it’s good. The spots the Mistress of the Dark does before the show (one of this series best) and during the commercial breaks are pretty funny, but the pop-up interruptions just aren’t as fun to watch as the movie itself. Beast From Haunted Cave, on the other hand, some silliness about bank robbers and a giant spider, is just bad and deserves everything Elvira throws at it.

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