Sunday, December 28, 2008

A little camp for Christmas.....

I don't know about you, but I like a little camp every now and again, and some of the campiest things I like are movies. I mean there's something funny about a movie or piece of art or whatever, that is just so over the top, artificial and tasteless that I find funny. Which was the case of a movie we saw on TV the day after Christmas, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.
It's one of those movies that I am sure the actors in it probably don't list on the resumes, even though you'll see it listed on IMDB.
Although there was one actor I am sure most of you will recognize, Pia Zador, who had a small part as the girl Martian "Girmar", get it? Girl Martian? Other campy Martian names were, Bomar, a male Martian, Dropo, Kimar, Rigna and Hargo.
The costumes in it were hilarious too, I can only imagine that the budget it was was small to say the least. For example, the Martians had what looked like football helmets, from the 60's, on their heads, that didn't have the face guards. Coming out their head's was a piece of flexible copper tubing, that went from one side to the other. The Martians as you can imagine had green faces, which as the movie went on, would less and less green and would show more of the actor's normal flesh color. I am guessing that the movie was shot in one day becasue of this.
Other noteable campy items, includ the descriptive markings and sayings on the Martian space ship, one said "Radar Box" on the radar panel.
The opening song was also very campy, and I am talking 1964 camp for that matter, which was when the movie was released.
Even the plot is campy! The children of Mars are sad and want things like we do here on Earth, they are able to watch television from Earth, so the chief Martian, Kimar devises a plan to kidnap the Santa Claus.
HERE is a listng of what appears to be the entire movie chapter by chapter, all 21 of them.
At the very least check out the link below, it's the opening..
S-A-N-T-Y C-L-A-U-S!

2 comments:

Mandos said...

that is pretty camp.how could you watch that. from ashlyn

Mandos said...

Ashlyn wanted to comment. I had to explain what campy meant. Tee Hee
But I'm with her. I don't think I could sit through all of that movie!