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DESCRIPTION:Sunday, Dec 27 - Crappy Christmas Redux!  Christmas isn't over until we say 
 it is, dammit!\n7:30 PM\nThe Guild, 2828 35th St, Sacramento\nAdmission: 
 $5.00\n\nOh, so you thought that "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" (which 
 plays on Dec 20) was fine holiday fare, eh?  Great cinema? Well we can top 
 that!  Oh yes we can!   Want to destroy any vestige of good feelings left 
 over from the holidays?  Want to get rid of that cloying theme song from 
 "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" and replace it with something even 
 worse? Well MOBS is here to help!  You might want to double up on "holiday 
 cheer" before arriving though...\n\nMore than a few people have asked if 
 we'd bring this back - so let's see if you have the guts to withstand it 
 again... and so, without further ado - by popular demand --  the return of 
 ... (drum roll)\n\nSanta vs. Satan!!!\n\nWe're ashamed (yet strangely 
 giddy) to present the return of this bizarre and relatively unknown movie 
 from 1959, originally filmed and released in Mexico. Included will be the 
 badly and bizarrely dubbed English soundtrack (no subtitles) from its 1960 
 US release.\n\nThe plot is fairly straight-forward - Santa lives on a cloud 
 floating over the North Pole where, rather than elves, children from all 
 over the world help make toys (and they're really more like happy slaves). 
 Is this a happy Santa that you'll hope will come down your chimney? Um, not 
 so much. He's pretty creepy with his overly sweet voice paired with his 
 disturbing (and not quite jolly) laugh and insincere and sometimes vacant 
 eyes staring at children through odd Sid and Marty Krofft-like devices - 
 well, it's best just left at that... But anyway - Satan is determined to 
 bring Santa down, so sends his minion, Pitch (a skinny guy in a cheap weird 
 red suit), to the surface to make the kids of the world hate Santa and 
 engage in vandalism and other mischief. Oh yes - and Santa is pals with 
 Merlin the Magician who supplies St. Nick with, amongst other things, 
 sleeping powder. Oh - did we mention the vampiric mechanized reindeer? No?  
 Or the interpretive dance in Hell?  Hmm...\n\nAll in all, this is one 
 surreal (and yes, it IS surreal) cheaply made (and yes, it IS very 
 low-budget, so don't expect quality) Christmas travesty for all to enjoy, 
 even with its boring parts (and yes, it DOES have it's boring parts). When 
 this was first released in theaters, it was common to see children leaving 
 in tears from trauma and fright. \n\nYou know, it's not really a Christmas 
 movie without dialog like, "There's a prowler out there -- he's come to 
 kill your wife. And your children. He's going to murder you!"\n\n"How can a 
 movie get everything so very, very wrong and yet be so very, very right? If 
 you aren't the least bit familiar with this surreal trip into an extremely 
 non-traditional view of jolly ol' St. Nick, perhaps the less known the 
 better, as half the fun of this colossal mess is staring in dumbfounded awe 
 at what is transpiring on the screen. It's a hoot. A damned scary hoot, 
 granted, but certainly a hoot." - dvdinmypants.com\n\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/12/01/18631071.php
SUMMARY:MOBS Crappy Christmas Revisited: Santa vs. Satan - Hosted by Mr. Lobo!
LOCATION:Movies on a Big Screen at The Guild.  2828 35th St,  Sacramento  (corner of 
 35th & Broadway).
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/12/01/18631071.php
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