Upcoming stuff and junk

I still owe a review of Curse of the faceless man this week. Also this week I still hope to do a Poster Posting and likely a Saturday Morning Flashback. Next week will be a half week for me because the second half of the week will see me taking my first vacation in six years. I don’t plan on writing while I am away. So for the half week I’ll aim to do reviews Raw Meat AKA: Deathline and Revenge of the creature plus Dr. Smith will be by and if there is time I’ll do a list of some sort. I guess I’ll announce the week after that since I won’t here late next week to announce it. So that week will be sequels week with probably reviews of Critters 3, Friday the 13th Part VIII and Phantasm 2.

Have a great week!

Zardoz Funnies-Office Space

No way, which one?

Let me guess you didn’t get the part because you were too self-promotional? That would be my guess.

Santa Claus conquers the martians

We don’t need no stinkin’ Santa Clauses!

1964

Hey, it’s Christmas in July for this review.

Who’s in this? A bunch of people who never did much else oe don’t want you to know that they did this film. Top names are actress/singer Pia Zadora as an alien girl, she was only ten here. Fans of classic tv will recorgnize the late Ned Wertimer as a tv reporter, Wertimer is most known for having played Ralph the doorman on the Jeffersons.

What’s this about? Martian children get tv broadcasts talking about how cool this Santa guy is. Some of the green skinned adults decide to abduct Santa and bring him on over to their planet. Along the way they graba couple of kids too. Hey even Mars has soupusses as one tries to kill Santa, no presents for you this year Mr. evil killy martian guy. Santa also gets a toy facotory on his new planet. Some frowning green goobers try to mess it up-oh, the horror. Eventually there’s a big old silly lovable battle in the martian toy factory. The non-rotten apples win and it’s decided that this clumsy goon martian who likes Santa will be the martian Santa and the real Santa p0lus the two kids will be shipped back to planet Earth. Hey we got the best of that deal.

The martians have to wear spandex wahahahahaha.

The negatives-Sure, it’s low budget. The sets are thin, the costumes were thrown together and the acting is what it is-corny down to wooden. The film is also slow at times.

The postives-The idea isn’t as bad as most people make it out to be. Why shouldn’t the martians want Santa? It combines Christmas and aliens. Silly? Sure, but remember who this was aimed at-kids. This wasn’t meant to be an action sci-fi film and too many people forget that and jump all over it. I like the silly humor and the thrown together martain costumes. It may have been better if it was a little shorter, but mostly it’s a goofy yet likable enough film if you like Santa and martians and who doesn’t?

This film makes a lot of worst films of all time lists. For me those lists should be full of stuff that’s hard to get through and this film was not like that. It has tons of holes, but it was worth a laugh and fits it good as a watch at Christmas time with the kids kind of film. Hooray for Santy Claus!