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DESCRIPTION:December 19, 2010\n7:30 PM\nAdmission: $5.00\nMovies on a Big Screen at The 
 Guild\n2828 35th St, Sacramento, CA\n\nIt's the second weekend of Crappy 
 Christmas at MOBS!  Featuring: Crappy Christmas decorations in the lobby, 
 Crappy Christmas presents for the unlucky few who get 'em, and other 
 horrible surprises!!\n\nAnd "featuring" the "holiday classic"\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 
 \nand other mischief.\n\nOh 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\nNote: this poster 
 states "Here's something for the whole family to see \ntogether!" written 
 by "The Management". We didn't write that. Actually, we \nrecommend it not 
 be seen by anyone. - Sincerely, The Management\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/11/06/18663377.php
SUMMARY:Screening: Crappy Christmas: Santa vs Satan
LOCATION:Movies on a Big Screen at The Guild. 2828 35th St, Sacramento, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/11/06/18663377.php
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