Santa Claus
Directed by Rene Cordona
Written by Adolfo Torres Portillo and Rene Cordona
1959/Mexico
Cinematografia Calderon
First viewing/Amazon Prime
[box] Evil Doll: You want to be good, eh, you don’t want to be bad?
Lupita: No, you know stealing is bad, and I want to be good.
Evil Doll: Well then, you’ll never have a doll! HAHAHAHAH![/box]
When the filmmakers came up with this one they weren’t smoking tobacco in their Christmas pipes …
Forget everything you ever learned about Santa Claus. He lives with Merlin and a slew of stereotypical children of many lands in his workshop. From Santa headquarters, he operates a bizarre set of eyes in the sky, listening devices and dream invaders. Add to that his maniacal laugh and demeanor, in fact, and you have the stuff of nightmares.
But Santa is not the villain of this piece. No, the devil Pitch has been sent to earth by Lucifer to destroy both Santa Claus and Christmas. His campaign to tempt children to be naughty is mostly unsuccessful but Santa barely escapes a direct attack.
This movie is hilariously bad in every respect. Only the most devoted connoisseurs will want to add it to their Christmas movie lists. I might be one of them …
U.S. Trailer
Wishing all my readers every joy of the season and plenty of …
