Santa Claus vs The Devil – Livestream Screening

This show will broadcast live via a private link that will be sent to ticket purchasers an hour prior to showtime. Viewers will be able to tune in from anywhere in the world.

A portion of the proceeds from this event will benefit Friends In Need Food Shelf in Minneapolis.

Anyone who purchases a ticket will gain access to re-watch the livestream and download it for personal viewing. Please allow 24 hours for us to process the video and make it available for re-watching and downloading.

The show will not be available for purchase after the broadcast ends, so get your ticket early!

SANTA CLAUS VS. THE DEVIL (1959) (taken from Wikipedia)

Santa Claus (sometimes also known as Santa Claus vs. the Devil) is a 1959 Mexican fantasy film directed by Rene Cardona and co-written with Adolfo Torres Portillo. In the film, Santa works in outer space and does battle with a demon named Pitch, sent to Earth by Lucifer to ruin Christmas by killing Santa and “making all the children of the Earth do evil”.

A dubbed and slightly edited English-language version was produced for U.S. release in 1960 under the direction of Ken Smith. It was lampooned on an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000.

The film was considered to be a financial success over several holiday season theatrical releases in the 1960s and 1970s. Broadcast of the film also became a holiday tradition at several U.S. television stations. The film garnered at least one award, winning the Golden Gate Award for Best International Family Film at the San Francisco International Film Festival in 1959.

The film was also featured in the fifth season of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (episode #521), which first aired on Christmas Eve 1993. The devil Pitch became a recurring character on MST3K, played by writer Paul Chaplin. Chaplin said, “It’s kind of a fun movie, and we all enjoyed it”, noting that he made “quite an attractive demon”.[4] The episode may be the origin of the phrase “nightmare fuel”; during the movie, Crow T. Robot calls an animatronic Santa “some good old-fashioned nightmare fuel”, and the phrase spread through MST3K message boards.