There are the Silent Night, Deadly Night films, and _Terror in Toyland_,
_Who Stole Santa?_, _To All a Good Night_, _A Year Without Santa Claus_.
_Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer_ has a skinny Santa.
 
Scott
 
 
On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, kelly abbott wrote:
 
> On a lighter note...
> I've been writing a column on films for a comedic magazine.  Soon we'll be
> producing a December marathon that includes a new article ever day of
> December.  An advent calendar, actually.  Anyway, I plan on making my
> regular Christmas reviews but also had an idea to write about Santa Claus in
> film throughout the years.
> What I'm asking screen-l, h-film all my friends and readers to help me with,
> is to compile a record of all the weirdest Santa Clause imagery they can
> remember form films past.  Myself, I can only think of a few.  The "Dream
> Santas" in The City of the Lost Children, the "Rude Santa" in A Christmas
> Story.  But I'm drawing blanks after that.  I seem to remember, a Terrorist
> Santa from Christmas past, and didn't Chevy Chase do Santa once.  Was it SNL
> or the Vacation movie?   Oh, and Gremlins featured Gremlin Santas.  That's a
> prime example.  See where I'm going?
> If you could forward your suggestions, so that I can fortify my article, I'd
> be grateful indeed.  Also, feel free to write me personally about any
> memorable Chistmas film experiences.  My editor mentioned that he kept his
> ticket stub from the Muppet Christmas Story from way back.  When he looked
> through his albums recently he noticed that the stub had been torn just so,
> leaving "Muppet Christ" legible.  "Now that's a movie I want to see!" he
> joked.
> Get the picture?
> Thanks
> Kelly
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