Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
Mondo Mondays
Screen 1
MONDAY, DECEMBER 22 AT 8:00PM
General Admission: $4 | Loft Members: $3
Passes Accepted
Look up and look OUT because it’s SPACED INVADERS Month at Mondo Mondays!
PLUS: Walk into a winter weirdoland with a bonus collection of hallucinatory holiday shorts that will bring the mid-century kitsch to make all your Christmas dreams (and nightmares) come true!
“Aliens attack the North Pole! Who will save Christmas?” In this hilarious, mind-boggling Christmas anti-classic, green-faced aliens in baggy leotards land on Earth to steal our most precious resource … Santa Claus! Can two plucky (and highly annoying) Earth children foil the aliens’ dastardly plot, rescue old Saint Nick, spread Christmas cheer throughout the red planet, and save the holiday for us all? Long-considered to be one of the all-time greatest bad movies by connoisseurs of cheesy B-flicks, the undeniably awful 1964 sci-fi family extravaganza Santa Claus Conquers the Martians found newfound fame in 1991 when it was featured on MST3K, quickly becoming one of the series’ most popular and beloved episodes. Featuring wonderfully tacky special effects, bumbling robots, ugly costumes, a manically-laughing Santa of your nightmares, a rocking theme song, and the inauspicious movie debut of 8-year-old actress/singer and future ’80 bad movie queen Pia Zadora, everyone’s favorite Bad Christmas Classic (filmed in BLAZING SPACE COLOR!) is guaranteed to delight and bewilder Earthlings everywhere! (Dir. by Nicholas Webster, 1964, USA, 88 mins., Not Rated)
