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DESCRIPTION:December 11, 2011\n7:30 PM\nAdmission: $5.00\nMovies on a Big Screen at The 
 Guild\n2828 35th St, Sacramento, CA\n\nIt's the first weekend of Crappy 
 Christmas, and we'll also be showing 2 Crappy Christmas short films before 
 the so-called "feature"!!\n\nThe Magic Christmas Tree \n\nSee the Magic 
 Christmas Tree Talk! See the Discussion About Bologna Sandwiches! See The 
 Black Magic Witch? See the Creepy Giant?? See The Runaway Lawnmower?!?!?  
 See the Grass Eating Turtle!  See Mom Talk on the Phone!  Oh yes - all of 
 these wondrous holiday "surprises" await you in this obscure Christmas 
 "film" from 1964.\n\nWhat's it about?  Well, what little sense of it that 
 exists kind of goes like this: Three boys talk about their lunches.  They 
 walk home and one of the boys, Mark, visits a creepy old woman who gets 
 Mark to rescue Lucifer, her cat, out of a tree.  Mark hits his head and the 
 woman is transformed into a witch.  She seduces Mark into the "dark arts" 
 by giving him a ring with a magic seed to grow a magic talking (possessed?) 
 tree so long as the correct (occult) ritual is followed, and the tree will 
 also grant three wishes.  Mark plants the seed causing the demonic tree to 
 grow, and abuses two of the wishes, one of which involves having Santa 
 glued to a chair so Mark can demand toys from him.  Then Mark is in the 
 woods with a creepy giant (we don't really know why and don't really care, 
 either).  Mark uses his final wish to undo the other wishes.  Mark gets 
 cookies. The end.  Yeah - that's pretty much it.  Oh - there's also the 
 runaway lawnmower and the turtle, but you'll just have to see it for 
 yourself.  In an uncommon show of mercy, nearly everyone associated with 
 this "film" never worked in movies again.  \n\n"The Magic Christmas Tree 
 was obviously made by amateur filmmakers working with whatever they had at 
 hand...The most important element in that situation is talent, and the 
 filmmakers here simply had none. The story doesn't make sense, the comedy 
 style was out of date 20 years before the movie was made, and the acting is 
 bad even when it's dubbed." - stomptokyo.com\n\n"A low budget fever dream 
 of a movie, this film uses all the usual Christmas tropes: evil witches, 
 talking trees that grant wishes and a semi-bondage scene with Santa Claus 
 tied to a chair."" - badassdigest.com\n\n"My wife and I both had headaches 
 while watching this film. This Satanic Christmas diddy should be shown in 
 film schools as an example of how not to make a movie…this film fails on 
 all cylinders. My wife commented that she wished everyone in this movie 
 would die except the turtle. It's easy to understand her feelings." - 
 imdb.com reviewer \n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/11/29/18701336.php
SUMMARY:Screening: The Magic Christmas Tree - Crappy Christmas at Movies on a Big Screen!
LOCATION:Movies on a Big Screen at The Guild - 2828 35th St, Sacramento, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/11/29/18701336.php
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