9 Unintentionally Hilarious Movie Santas (VIDEO, PHOTOS)

For every "It's A Wonderful Life," there are probably a dozen "Jingle All the Way"s. But it takes a special kind of failure to transcend the genre of "bad movie" that marks camp classics. We noticed that a strange number of them feature Santa Claus for reasons unknown, so we rounded up nine of our favorite movies where Jolly Old St. Nick is depicted in ludicrous ways. Vote for the most insane!

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Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny (1972)

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The year 1972 was a landmark year for American cinema, as it saw one of the best movies of all time, "The Godfather," go head to head with one of the other best movies of all time, "Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny." The plot, which makes "The Room" look like a classically linear and uniform film, involves Santa (who has telepathic powers) and his sleigh stuck in the sands of Florida, and then enlists the help of elves, farm animals, a gorilla, and Christmas standbys Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Thankfully, the Ice Cream Bunny shows up in a fire engine to save the day.

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The year 1972 was a landmark year for American cinema, as it saw one of the best movies of all time, "The Godfather," go head to head with one of the other best movies of all time, "Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny." The plot, which makes "The Room" look like a classically linear and uniform film, involves Santa (who has telepathic powers) and his sleigh stuck in the sands of Florida, and then enlists the help of elves, farm animals, a gorilla, and Christmas standbys Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Thankfully, the Ice Cream Bunny shows up in a fire engine to save the day.

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[gypsysailor]

04:16 AM on 12/26/2010

Whoa, this is some seriously twisted stuff.

[Goshzilla]

08:26 AM on 12/24/2010

Favorite MST3K line in "Mexican Santa Claus"....the department store robot Santa

Crow: "This is good ol' fashioned nightmare fuel"

[IndyGuy]

02:09 PM on 12/23/2010

Back in the 90's I loved the TV show Mystery Science Theater 3000:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/21/9-unintentionally-hilarious-santas_n_799440.html#s212443

This is one of their best episodes and makes watching "Santa Clause Conquers the Martians" worthwhile!

[ECBA88]

05:00 PM on 12/22/2010

The best part of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians is that Santa stays jolly and continues smoking his pipe the entire movie... and anyone who comes within about 3 feet of Santa's pipe gets jolly as well. He uses this, along with Nerf guns and outsourcing, to escape Mars.

[chillybew]

03:47 PM on 12/22/2010

Honestly, I love "Santa Claus: The Movie". My siblings and I watched it religiously when we were little. Pun intended.

[Hope Benik]

10:55 AM on 12/22/2010

Santa's Magic Kingdom was filmed at Santa's Village in Dundee, Illinois. I took many trips there as a child in the 80's. It always had an air of really dated creepiness, and this film totally captures it. It was closed down and auctioned off a few years ago.

[Sherjay]

10:15 AM on 12/22/2010

Santa With Muscles was on t.v. last night.

[dino213aa]

09:19 AM on 12/22/2010

The 1959 "Santa Claus" movie is also known as "Santa Claus vs the Devil". The MST3K episode for this movie is hilarious... or about the first half anyways.

[IndyGuy]

02:10 PM on 12/23/2010

Fanned for the MST3K reference!

[BrianVanVictor]

12:57 AM on 12/22/2010

I actually have seen most of the 50s and 60s films in the 60s when I was young . It explains many of my adult life issues .

[LMPE]

12:02 AM on 12/22/2010

The only two that I've seen are "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" and "Silent Night, Deadly Night". The latter was a lot cooler.

[Darwin8086]

11:59 PM on 12/21/2010

I'm going to show my age, but I remember seeing "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" when it opened at the long ago closed Civic Theater in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. It's actually one of my favorite memories as a kid, but sadly, not for the film. I actually barely remember the movie, but I do remember vividly coming out of the theater to find about a foot of snow on the ground -- a childhood delight.

[fbs]

10:53 PM on 12/21/2010

"Santas Slay" reminds of the fictional movie "Christmas Slay" being made in the movie "Ernest Saves Christmas".

[mallsta]

10:28 PM on 12/21/2010

LOL is the "Santa with Muscles" film actually real? Talk about bad photoshopping.

[ArjenBoatsma]

04:17 PM on 12/22/2010

Yes, it is real! With Hulk Hogan "starring" as Santa.

[DSevere]

08:51 PM on 12/21/2010

I actually saw "Silent Night Deadly Night" back in the 80s with a bunch of my metalhead friends. I remember being amused, but we were all really wasted...

[MagicalPossibilities]

10:06 PM on 12/21/2010

I think most of those movies must have been made under the influence of copious amounts of drugs.

[IndyGuy]

02:12 PM on 12/23/2010

Interesting, but then how come all the great rock music sounds so darn good because of copious amounts of drugs? Why didn't that translate to these movies?

[grailknight]

08:36 PM on 12/21/2010

"Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" is only watchable in the MST3K version!

[LMPE]

11:59 PM on 12/21/2010

that's the only version that I've seen

when they first noted that it starred a young Pia Zadora, I mistakenly assumed that they'd said Endora, which made me think that the movie starred Agnes Moorehead

[grailknight]

12:28 AM on 12/22/2010

I believe that George Walker Bush must've seen it in its original format. It has to be where he learned the word "nucular" as in "the nucular curtain."

I also have a friend from Austrailia who tells me that SCCM is a holiday staple down under!

[slappymagoo]

12:37 PM on 12/23/2010

And there's more. Not only is there the MST3K versions of both "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" AND "Santa Claus," various alum of MST3K are in two separate-but-equally-awesome riffing troupes. Cinematic Titanic - consisting of Joel Hodgson, Trace Beaulieu, J. Elvis Weinstein, Frank Coniff and Mary Jo Pehl - did a new version of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, but Rifftrax - consisting of Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett - just released a version of Santa Claus and the Ice Cream Bunny. I can't think of better Christmas Presents for the more sarcastic members of your family (I work for neither group, just revere them as they should be revered). Each download is around 10 bucks on their respective websites
cinematictitanic.com
rifftrax.com