Top 10 Good Bad Christmas Movies

[@picahudsoniaunflocked5426]

13:00 "I wanna know the connection between the Elves & the Nazis."

[@DrWhom]

"I want you to show me"

[@godlaydying]

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[@bkdmode]

As a kid in the late 70s and early 80s, I used to watch "Santa Claus Conquers The Martians" every year; it was one of my favorite Christmas movies

[@tmamone83]

I love that movie! No, it's not a well-made movie, but it's charming. It's cheesy good fun.

[@3baxcb]

It's not hard to imagine why, and that is despite any flaws that it contains. Comparing to what is usually broadcasted during the holidays, it is the one movie that goes as far out as possible to not be one of the usual cookie-cutter narratives that one would expect.

[@ElSandwich777]

My dude you have a Will made of concrete encrusted diamonds. I couldn’t stomach 20 minutes of that film without MST3K over the top. And even then it was a struggle.

[@ThreadBomb]

Kids have low standards.

[@clippedwings0]

Not going to lie... ... the music almost got me when the dad came back in Karate Christmas Miracle.

[@angbald]

Love your channel. Just subbed after watching the Freddy video. Love the longer format. I just wanted to comment about Dan Haggerty. He got so much work because he was genuinely one of the nicest guys you could ever know. My uncle worked with him quite a bit. My grandma told me that Dan Haggerty and Terry Funk were her adopted kids. They would both call her on her birthday and Christmas every year.

[@hazonku]

The cut away to the kids just intently listening in Elves ALWAYS makes me cackle.

[@Silenced23]

Hopefully you don't crackle when you cackle.

[@freakazoid4691]

This channel deserves more subscribers. In time they will come.

[@thecinematiccrapalliance]

I am a recent devotee of Karate Christmas Miracle, and its (totally not a sequel) Wrestling Christmas Miracle. In fact, that production team has a HUGE list of mind-boggling films filled with washed up actors. Great list! Got some new ones there. Very exciting. Happy holidays.

[@TheBadMovieBible]

Thanks very much! You might know this already but the guy behind the Christmas Miracle movies was judge who was forced to resign over the bias in his pro-Trump/anti-Obama movies.

[@thecinematiccrapalliance]

@@TheBadMovieBible I did see that! What a nut case. He runs the New Jersey Film Festival too. Pure insanity. Can't get enough of it.

[@vasilypugh1516]

I suppose it makes a change from the usual Hollywood Obama love-in.

[@thecinematiccrapalliance]

@@vasilypugh1516 Ken Del Vecchio, is that you?

[@vasilypugh1516]

@@thecinematiccrapalliance I would have got away with it if it wasn't for you meddling kids.

[@akaiseigo]

Thank you for adding Tales Of The Third Dimension on the list. This is somehow bad that is good compare to Saving Christmas and Last Ounce of Courage(so bad because it is badly done).

[@Silenced23]

'.....somehow so bad that it's good compared....'

[@AliceBowie]

I think this video missed "The Christmas Tree" from 1991. It's a cartoon, it's brutal. It's basically a bunch of orphans, and the lady who makes their lives hell.

[@adampellett4917]

And the animation sucks as well.

[@SpookyBrixx]

Thats it at 0:14

[@gettinsilly]

This channel is shockingly under recognized. Excellent work and great taste!

[@eareimaj]

It's OK to omit The Star Wars Holiday Special. Life Day isn't Christmas after all.

[@Amzizizooza]

It’s good to see Rapsittie Street Kids getting the recognition it… err… never mind.

[@kencoakley3959]

When I was a kid in the 70s, I saw a lot of great Christmas cheese. Santa Claus (1959) is the only one you mentioned. My first movie was "The Christmas That Almost Wasn't ", an Italian/American co-production directed by Rosanno Brazzi, who also played the villain. The producer, Paul Tripp, plays a lawyer trying to save Santa from being evicted by Brazzi's character. The supervisor at the workshop looked like Ringo Starr after a 3 day meth bender. They tried to fool people into thinking they used an aerial shot but it was a nativity set of houses. When Santa, Mrs. Claus (played by Rossano Brazzi's wife) and Paul Tripp's character go deliver presents, the reindeer aren't moving, the carriage is rocking and the people are shadow figures that aren't moving. Then there's Santa And The Ice Cream Bunny, a film shot in Florida, directed by Barry Mahon, who was the inspiration for Steve McQueen's Cooler King character in The Great Escape. Santa 's sleigh gets stuck on a beach in Florida. Local kids arrive to assist him. I also saw Santa Claus Conquers The Martians. I really liked that one because it was nice and cheesy. I also saw Santa And The 3 Bears, which was a cartoon with a live action wrap around. Like Santa And The Ice Cream Bunny, this was also a Florida production. There are a couple more that I vaguely remember.

[@demonllama42]

Elves is one of the craziest “so bad it’s good” movies I’ve ever seen.

[@ScottFunk-us6ro]

go watch ed wood jr's GLen or Glenda and tell me if you come away with your brain intact

[@demonllama42]

@ Oh that's a fever dream of an avant-garde PSA.

[@JoseBronxRican]

2:32 - Was that supposed to be a look of horror? LOL

[@ThreadBomb]

I know, it would be more convincing if you dubbed a yawn over that shot.

[@PorkFistedViking]

Another thing that is great about Elves, Dan Haggerty seems to be smoking a cigarette at all times in the movie.

[@DoomDiggler]

This channel is just sooo good! We appreciate you!

[@sircliffordmalcolmjac5870]

Ok, sooooo about that karate kid who brought his dad back from the dead by breaking a piece of wood?? I think that needs just a bit more explanation please!!??🤯🤯

[@TheBadMovieBible]

It needs a lot more explanation, but the movie offers none!

[@sircliffordmalcolmjac5870]

@@TheBadMovieBible AHAHAHA!! Yeah! I guess im not REALLY surprised!! Thank you for the reply!!😁👍

[@stephen70edwards]

A Christmas miracle, duh

[@sircliffordmalcolmjac5870]

@@stephen70edwards obviously!! If i have to ask, id never be able to understand!

[@vasilypugh1516]

A treat. Of course, that exquisite dry wit adds so much more, Mr. Hill

[@novelezra]

Kirk Cameron couldn't even save his acting career, how's he meant to save Christmas?

[@CinnamonGrrlErin1]

God bless the fine people at mst3k and Rifftrax for making many of these bearable lol.

[@variaphora]

Don't forget RLM, who have looked at a number of these as well.

[@Nummymuffincocobutter]

so true...and in season 13,they're riffing The Christmas Dragon there's an endless amount of bad Christmas movies that need to be riffed

[@CinnamonGrrlErin1]

@@Nummymuffincocobutter I would love to see them riff something like a Family Circus Christmas. I watched a lot of obscure specials last year and this one is....something. You kind of wonder why Daddy doesn't go out for a pack of smokes and never comes back lol

[@TheBadMovieBible]

The Cinema Snob has also done episodes on a lot of these, if you want to take a deeper dive into any.

[@Silenced23]

Rifftrax has the problem of talking every 2 seconds with jokes that aren't funny. MST3K knows when to be quiet and knows when to talk and shoot a joke at the audience. That's what makes Rifftrax unbearable. They need to tone down every second of talking.

[@Baphomet-J.-Moon-Fetus]

Would you believe I've only even seen the 2012 film 'Silent Night' with Malcolm McDowell..? Still, it does have that scene of Santa stuffing a stripper into a woodchipper and, if that doesn't fill your heart with festive cheer, then you're dead inside.

[@TheRealRodent]

Greatest Christmas movie I've ever seen was Santa's Summer House with martial arts body builder Cynthia Rothrock as Mrs Claus and an extended 45 minute long croquet game because I think the editor was on strike.

[@TaramiBedona]

We watched that last year; the croquet scene made us lose it, come to our senses, get bored with it then lose it all over again, multiple times. It's not inherently funny (in fact most of the movie is run-of-the-mill DeCoteau) but to include a full game of croquet as padding in a Christmas movie is so blatant it becomes hysterical.

[@jonothanthrace1530]

You had me at Cynthia Rothrock.

[@rog2224]

I do enjoy watching Hallmark's annual output of mawkish schlock. Few things say "Christmas is coming" like seeing extras drying of heatstroke in puffer jackets and Ugg boots in Wolfville , NS, while knee deep in fire foam.

[@forestcitytrivia9167]

That naughty into Nazi edit was perfect. Well played.

[@AllTheWeirdestProject]

I feel like A Karate Christmas Miracle solely exists to give fundies a reason to declare karate "evil."

[@Applepoisoneer]

I absolutely need to see some of these.

[@tapestapes0]

Thank you!! i have only seen #3 and i can confirm; a fever dream is a proper description

[@MichaelLangdon-en5cw]

Once again a top notch job 🎄

[@Pespi26353]

Rip grandma 1912 to 1984 9:19

[@adamdomo8936]

thank you for introducing me to Karate Christmas Miracle. I think my life is going to be okay now

[@EarJuice]

Elves is still my fav and one of my fav movies of all time. It's prefect... it has a master race troll.

[@EarJuice]

Hey kewl it made number 1 where it should be.

[@favoritemustard3542]

When Christmas Day is also garbage day:

[@peckingforgoodTV]

I know it's August, and i have a feeling you already are aware, but still, Karate Christmas takes footage from the director's previous film, Joker's Wild or the Aurora Massacre for it's UK release. It's a pro-gun rights retelling of the 2012 mass shooting in the state of Aurora, with supernatural elements thrown in for fun and profit. Of all the film's i've seen this side of the century, it is only one of a handful i would call genuinely psychotronic, a concept that should have never been with an execution, no pun intended, that's out of this world.

[@fusionspace175]

I have to admit Saving Christmas was a fun watch, for how insane it is. Grumpy Cat I love in a more genuine way though, it's as close to intentionally bad as it can be and still be entertaining, largely because it's also Lifetime enough to be genuinely bad in some classic ways, making the self awareness work.

[@aj7419]

The portrayal of the Caribbean in that movie from 1959 may be representative of American and European impact on the islands, which brought much strife. From European colonization and merchant wars of the past centuries to more recent American military involvement in the islands; the 100 years preceding 1959 in particular containing many wars of independence and conflict amongst and between greater & regional powers. maracas are just a traditional instrument and probably represent the strong musical tradition of the islands

[@kdrkdr5123]

🙄

[@variaphora]

Thank you Rob!

[@angelomendoza1174]

Santa Claws: "I'm not Wayne... I'm Santa CLAAAAAWS!!!🤣🤪😂

[@waynechapman9823]

I’m not Santa Claus . . . I’m Wayyyyyne!

[@enkephalin07]

"No one...is...normal...!" That's not the worst news I've ever heard. Nothing to scream about here. That was abrupt end. There are no 'honorable' mentions for this subject matter, it appears.

[@jonathanhoush2384]

My all-time favorite Christmas movie is actually Santa Claus (1959). To me, it works in this wonderfully magical, straight-faced way, where you don't feel talked down to at all. It is a world that works on its own logic, where Santa and Merlin and Hephaestus all work together for the good of mankind. I also appreciate that the Devil appears not in temptations of vague power, but in the small, painful moments that wear you away inside.

[@lindinle]

I like that kind of stuff. Oh and santa v martians.

[@jonothanthrace1530]

I don't remember Hephaestus being in it. But I do find it interesting that Cardona apparently made it because he wanted to increase Santa Claus's visibility in Mexico and invented all the wild extra stuff to differentiate it from the more generic American version.

[@Madness1913]

This might be one of your best videos

[@ApolloVIIIYouAreGoForTLI]

Think I might have to watch that again Rob 🥴 Nothing but my full attention when it comes to Bible studies & this study session was no different...Then it got to number Six where you summarised the plot of 'Karate Christmas Miracle'. Between the teacher suggesting the key to resurrecting the dead is attaining a Black Belt & Lil Bronson's Zombie-Dad charge through their glass door I was speechless. What the actual füçk?

[@notreallydavek7237]

Yeah that one is just mind bending.

[@Marshal_Dunnik]

"Begins its journey to Christmas classic when we learn the father was murdered by a clown." lol! "And it isn't mean to be funny." Oh, ok

[@Squatch_needs_no_heroes]

All Jesse wants for Christmas is for his murdered father not to be murdered. Instant subscribe. 😂😂😂

[@Pespi26353]

2:28 bro that guy looks like Johnny cab from total recall

[@Silenced23]

Imagine breaking a wooden board and your dead loved one comes back but looking like a zombie. Awesome magic wooden board. Third Dimension skeleton could've at least tried harder to match the voice with the mouth. I also consider the underrated movie 'Dead Alive' by Peter Jackson as a sorta Christmas-ish movie for some reason. Even though it may not look like it.

[@thechonkahedron]

The one thing I was hoping to see is the animated film Christmas In New York. It's a genuinely insane fever dream of a movie.

[@altebander2767]

There is another StarWars Christmas movie, BTW. It's the obscure German movie "Sheeba - Die dunkelste Seite der Macht".

[@jonothanthrace1530]

9:07 I love these kids' reaction to being saved by Santa. Not relief, just utter confusion.

[@Ristro44]

Looks like the actress in Tales of the 3rd Kind is having a blast.

[@healerforce4165]

Hey when are you going to do a borrowing blockbusters on Due hard there's hundreds of those

[@TheBadMovieBible]

I did research on Die Hard ripoffs for the book that got cancelled. It's on the list but these videos take so much time it might not happen for a bit.

[@picahudsoniaunflocked5426]

2:06 was multitasking but this is when I looked over & legit I thought the caveman was Doug + it was s Nostalgia Critic skit.

[@superweirdpodcast5075]

Rob, could you point me in the right direction for information on Ken Del Vecchio?

[@kevinkelley3906]

Kirk Cameron is just as despicable as all the megachurch shows on tv.

[@rog2224]

Also, I'd not realised that Silent Night, Deadly Night 3 stole the reveal shot from the video for "He's Back! (The Man Behind The Mask)" (1986) until seeing it out of context

[@nemurenuyorumoonlight8778]

My favorite Christmas movie is in two parts. It's called The Hogfather. Sadly, it's weird so I don't know if it would constitute as good or bad. If anyone watched this, comment below.

[@thepanpiper7715]

It's bloody brilliant. I got it for my Mum this Christmas- she loved it.

[@Nse204]

It's not weird, it's Terry Pratchett! His books are brilliant. All of the books with Death as a character are my favourites.

[@ThreadBomb]

It's just one of a number of adaptations of Terry Pratchett's Discworld fantasy novel series.

[@aluncurtis6124]

"Grandad's a Nazi. " Genius!

[@tmamone83]

I saw "A Karate Christmas Miracle" last year, and all I could think was, "Was Julie McCullough drunk during filming, or is her character supposed to be drunk, or both or what?"

[@jim40135]

0:59 😵 That's like some nightmarish version of Snap with 160 cards which nearly match but none actually do. Yes 160. There are 160 of them. Make it stop.

[@FFVison]

Ok, for number 10, please tell me that the cherry on top was you NOT superimposing the stock KZbin song Prizefighter over top of this Kirk Cameron movie and please please please tell me that movie featured stock music itself. LOL, the 1959 Santa Claus movie was so cheesy, it was featured in an episode of MST3k.

[@dedsun81]

"Naughty this"!

[@jeremyusreevu237]

My thoughts: 10. Yeah, this film is hilariously absurd, and I kind of love it. 9. Never heard of it, but looks pretty funny. 8. Great choice. This is the Santa And The Ice Cream Bunny of Animated Christmas movies. 7. Awesomely terrible. Like everything The Polonia Brothers have made. 6. This film is like if Neil Breen got hooked on painkillers and decided to make a Christmas movie. 5. F*CK THIS MOVIE. It's so whiny and pretentious and rage-inducing. It does not belong on this list at all. It's a terrible garbagefire nobody should ever see. EVER. 4. Never seen it, but looks right up my alley. 3. Meh. 2. Eric Freeman's performance is legendary. 1. I've heard of this movie, but I've never seen it. I definitely will.

[@Voodoomaria]

SANTA AND THE ICE CREAM BUNNY - 1972 The Christmas Martian - 1971 How could you miss these?

[@marcomacias3960]

i wonder if #9 was intended to be a though of sequel to Black Christmas instead of Halloween

[@jaypeve]

Also Tales from the Crypt all through the house with Larry Drake

[@mazurbeem]

any chance of a deep dive into the star wars holiday special for xmas this year santa? Edit: Satan

[@Heavy-P]

A good list

[@BADWOLF-cs6ow]

Number 1 Christmas movie is Die Hard!👍

[@daneraman]

so anyway, Jesse's dad is actually the killer clown. I just want people to know

[@miguelhuerta4916]

That elf is a pain in the ass

[@jeremyusreevu237]

Great list, but I despise Last Ounce Of Courage.

[@TheBadMovieBible]

I completely understand! On a different day and in a different mood, I easily may have done too.

[@akaiseigo]

What in the world is Fred Williamson doing?!

[@petefrenzel7296]

Some of these movies would scare me, grown adult. Grizzly Adams (Dan Hagardy) should have his beard shaved & revoked for being in that movie.

[@mg1342mg]

Lopeeta, nooo!

[@jackdoe552]

I wonder what it's like to be Kirk Cameron.

[@paulfny]

Honestly thought Haggerty was Russell Crowe... 😳

[@margaretwood152]

😮............😦.............😧............😨............😖..........😩.............😫............. _(You get the _*_Idea)_*

[@georgeoldsterd8994]

Tried watching 'Silent night, deadly night' last year and switched it off after the first ten minutes. Don't get how it got to become such a cult classic. 😒

[@dramares]

2:24…

[@ldf4064]

Interesting fact: there is actual historical evidence for the person (Saint Nicholas of Patara) that became the modern concept Santa Clause, but for an actual Jesus person there is no evidence, or any first hand account. So if someone asks: do you believe in Santa Clause?, you can annoy them with this fact as an answer.

[@aaron_d_henderson1984]

1:58 Dana Carvey did that joke first almost 30 years ago... writers must be SNL fans

[@lenneal6367]

If you want to present entertainment, do that. If you want to be an advocate, do that. They do not mix. I quote Michael Jordan of the USA: 'Republicans buy sneakers too." If you don't want certain people to watch your channel or buy your books, you are not a businessman. Comments below make clumsy efforts at pointing out this elementary fact. If you are in the business of selling your product to as many people as possible, you don't insult about 40% of your potential customers. I would actually love to see you 'do' religious movies, as most of them are horrible. But in your listing Kirk Cameron as a Bad Movie icon solely because of his beliefs you have simply mirrored him. If you support trans rights, then feature Woods' Glen Or Glenda, which by any metric is a terrible movie. Or 'Tomorrow's Pioneers' by Hamas- sponsored terror aimed at children, which is an incredible watch, it's hilarious except for, you know, the content. Be in the entertainment business, or the advocacy business. This post, honestly, talked me out of buying any of your books. It did. And I like your stuff. But I'm not supporting you if you are not serious about being in the entertainment business. Go get a 'job' with an NGO.

[@adampellett4917]

The worst Christmas movie ever was Deck the Halls 2006 and making Matthew Broderick looked like an idiot even destroying his career. What a jingle ass fake movie of the 2000s.

[@fionastirling986]

Garbage Day!

[@dedsun81]

Whaaat!?

[@SirLimeyone]

The funny thing about Elves is the the nazis or at least Hitler was kinda obsessed with north mythology and germanic folklore so a nazi elf breeding program isn't really that far fetched.

[@lopaka76]

You can't mention the Star Wars Holiday Special, because it does not exist.

[@aaron_d_henderson1984]

6:53 when you let rightists write a movie

[@arneophyte3672]

Fart noise

[@jaritime1406]

And the woke attack on normallity loses yet another sub..

[@m.l.tankesly2665]

Dude ...everyone knows the Star Trek Holiday Special was nothing more then a horrid mass hallucination and/or really bad dream we don't talk about. It keeps us from forming that angry lynch mob and burning down Hollywood in a fit of righteous rage and salting everything so nothing will ever spawn there again. Wait, would that be a bad thing nowadays? Correction: star WARS not Trek - my only defense is both series have been so royally screwed over I can no longer tell them apart.

[@brutallyhonest123]

Star Trek? You mean Star Wars?

[@m.l.tankesly2665]

@@brutallyhonest123 yes, yes you're right. It was Star Wars. Lol

[@speciale517]

So much cringeworthy crap.

[@chinabluewho]

I down voted your video as I down vote any video that mentions Hitler/nazis regardless of context.

[@tonypine3434]

Get a grip

[@jimmcfeely7378]

Rosanne Barr jumpscare 0:07

[@pacificblue3955]

Kirk "I'm holier than everyone" Cameron's Saving Christmas is just god awful. What a sanctimonious, self indulgent, pile of drivel that was.

[@3baxcb]

So one can't mistaken it for any standard Hallmark Christmas movie, let alone one which may have a familiar favourite actor in a starring role.

[@youtubehatesfreespeech744]

"A hate crime against cinema" is correct sir. Too bad this is a year old, because they just made another terrible Christmas action movie, staring the sheriff from stranger things. He's a Santa who mows down bad guys with a machine gun. It's truly hilarious because in the movie Scrooged, there's a joke about a terrible Santa movie just like this. Then they actually made it 30 year's later! But, hey, Hollywood must reflect it's desire for diversity and tolerance for modern audience.

[@youtubehatesfreespeech744]

Perhaps Christianity isn't under threat in jolly old England. But it's absolutely being ferociously attacked right here in America. I doubt you would care either way though. Just because you are an atheist liberal, doesn't mean you have to deny this reality. The way you mock Christianity here, is highly offensive. As a brit, I bet you wouldn't dare mock Islam in the same way, would you?

[@12345.......]

Christmas derived from pagan winter festival before being hijacked by religion. Go cry about it to your fake god

[@brutallyhonest123]

You can’t adopt a moniker that complains about a lack of free speech on youtube and then complain about differing opinions. While I agree that the constant unnecessary political commentary peppered into these videos is annoying, I’m not surprised. Hypocrisy is a bad look

[@youtubehatesfreespeech744]

@@brutallyhonest123 I'm not sure you even know what "free speech" is. Your position is, that because I have a handle taking a dig at KZbin for their fascist stance on free speech. This means I cannot have my own opinion, and disagree with someone? Yeah, that's not how free speech work's buddy. You are exactly the problem in this country. You see, where I was simply disagreeing with someone, and absolutely not telling them they cannot say THIS, or say THAT... You on the other hand, triggered, let your inner leftist out by literally telling me this; "You can't adopt a moniker that complains about a lack of free speech on KZbin and then complain about differing opinions." Even though that's not at all what I was doing, because simply disagreeing, isn't"complaining" about someone's opinion. But rather giving your own. Your actually telling me I cannot disagree, and give my own opinion, if you don't like it. Especially if I'm a proponent of free speech. It's also telling that you slap the descriptive word "complaining" on any opinions or view you don't like. This is not a dig at you, but really, maybe educate yourself a little more on free speech, what it is and how its used. So a BIG SWING, and a miss for you.

[@DrWhom]

is your comment tongue in cheek or did you mean every word of it?

[@youtubehatesfreespeech744]

Your liberal bias and racism really shown through on this one.

[@dennett316]

Racism? Do tell...

[@youtubehatesfreespeech744]

@@dennett316 The complaining in the beginning about there being too many white people in lifetime holiday movies. Then deciding those Mexican kid's were ethnically white because they weren't brown enough. It's just typical liberal nitpicking over race and color. When in reality it doesn't matter. I imagine he's probably what's called an ethnomasochist.

[@danielvandersall6756]

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[@shalopez420]

Thanks for sharing!