Weird Christmas films

[Monsieur Verdoux]

Let's put our heads together, I'm looking for the trashy, culty, weird, obscure stuff. Christmas Spaghetti westerns, b movies, pornography, whatever. Let's hear em, and I'll track em down and watch em. The more disreputable the better

[Famous Mortimer]

Is "Goodbye 20th Century" the sort of thing, or is that not obscure enough?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0179196/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

[Monsieur Verdoux]

That's the exact sort of thing, that's perfect

[Small Man Big Horse]

Love and Peace (2015) is one of my favourites, being about an office clerk who dreams of being a famous singer, his friendship with a turtle, and a weird old guy in the sewer who makes sentient toys and may or may not be Santa Claus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNfYMUEJkkk

[Better Midlands]

Le Martien De Noël

French/Canadian film I remember being very strange when I was a child, I'm sure it was called The Christmas Alien when it shown on TV but the poster shows it as different



https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0067400/

[wooders1978]

Rare Exports is bloody weird - Santa is a demonic monster disturbed from his crypt by an oil drilling project and some very non christmassy things occur

[alan nagsworth]

We watched the MST3K episode of Santa Claus Conquers The Martians the other day. It's up for free on YouTube as well, here.

The weirdest thing about this weird film is that Santa doesn't actually conquer anything.

[George White]

The Silent Partner (1978)
Christmas heist film starring Kevin Spacey (played by Christopher Plummer) as an eye-liner-wearingmastermind who enacts a heist at a Canadian shopping mall bank, where clerk Elliot Gould pockets some money from Plummer's hoard, and becomes desperate to get it back. Has Plummer dressed as both Santa and yer glam aunt from abroad. And Susannah York. And John Candy. In a serious role.

[SteK]

Trading Places? Pissed-up Santa always worth watching......

[studpuppet]

Rare Exports seconded. Also Tokyo Godfathers.

[idunnosomename]

We watched the MST3K episode of Santa Claus Conquers The Martians the other day. It's up for free on YouTube as well, here.

The weirdest thing about this weird film is that Santa doesn't actually conquer anything.

well he kind of wins them over to christmas. A metaphorical conquering.

[PinkNoise]

Last Stop on the Night Train aka Late Night Trains aka L'ultimo treno della notte; 1975 Italian knock-off of Last House On The Left.

Two girls travel from Germany to Italy on the train on Christmas Eve and get tormented and sexually assaulted by some low-life types. Inevitably the villains end up at the house of one of the girls' parents etc etc you know the rest.

Macha Méril off of Profondo Rosso plays a posh woman who eggs the baddies on, Morricone does the music and Demis Roussos sings the theme song. It's pretty grubby and grim but it's set on Christmas Eve and into Christmas Day, so it's status as a festive film cannot be denied.

Actually, you could argue that Profondo Rosso is also a Christmas film. But I wouldn't.

[Viero_Berlotti]

Black Christmas:

https://youtu.be/k6JuJHmVsh4

[alan nagsworth]

well he kind of wins them over to christmas. A metaphorical conquering.

I think it would have been a better film if Santa Claus conkered the martians to be honest. Would fucking love to see Dropo get dropped by a 49er.

[thenoise]

The innocently named 'Santa Claus' (Mexico, 1959) pits our chubby cheeked hero against the Devil, who is tempting little children to do naughty things in the run up to Christmas. Weirdly, Santa lives in space, with an army of quite miserable looking child slaves working for him, and he spies on the world's children using the latest 1950s technology to make sure they are behaving themselves.

[Jim Bob]

Not Frankie Howerd's finest hour, it must be said.

[Jumblegraws]

To my surprise, I unironically enjoyed much of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, I think it's because it resembles a typical British panto in places. Voldar's a brilliant scenery-chewing villain.

Has anyone here seen the Flaming Lips's Christmas on Mars and would they recommend it?

[Head Gardener]

https://vimeo.com/5048966

[Attila]

Rifftrax has loads of mad films and shorts on Christmas themes. A bonkers one we revisit is Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny.

It's on Amazon Prime at the moment for £2.50 (film without the Rifftrax commentary) or £3.50 with Mike, Bill, and Kevin (three of the MST3K folks).