When I purchased this movie a couple of years ago--along with 7 other zombie films in a collection called "Extreme Zombies 8 Movie Collection"--I had hoped for one or two passable movies out of the lot. A "diamond in the rough" so to speak. Unfortunately, "Santa Claus Versus the Zombies" is definitely not one of them. Essentially, a family is celebrating Christmas and the wealthy grandfather named "Dick Richards" (Russ Croley) has taken it upon himself to hire a man to act as "Santa Claus" (Billy W. Blackwell) along with three of his elves in order to liven up the traditional Christmas dinner. Unfortunately, it's at this time that a brand new diet drug begins to show terrible side effects which basically renders those who take it into protein-starved zombies-on Christmas day no less! And there are millions of Americans taking this drug. It gets so bad that even the President of the United States has to hunker down in a bunker surrounded by military troops to keep safe. So when the news gets out that Santa Claus is trapped in a house surrounded by zombies, "President Moore" (Tony Armstrong) decides to rescue him at all costs! Now, I must admit that I am not typically a fan of "Zom-Coms" (Zombie-Comedies) and films like this are a big reason for it. Frankly, there just aren't that many good ones out there. Although the first 30 minutes or so had some promise it proceeded to go downhill very quickly after that. As a matter of fact, other than the presence of Kayla Perkins (as "Randy") and possibly Alex Del Monacco ("Jennifer") there really wasn't much worth seeing. In short, this film is about as cheap as it gets and not worth spending too much time viewing. I have rated it accordingly.
Review of Santa Claus Versus the Zombies
