Santa Claus Versus the Zombies

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.

GB is a classy film maker. You know that is he is making it, it will be a Z grade movie. SCVTZ fits nicely into his cannon of masterpieces. This movie is totally ludicrous and maybe it just fits into my British sense of humour. This movie is great.

Really I read all of the other reviews that hate this movie and wonder if they knew it was a comedy.

So GB uses the techniques he learned making Zombie Planet and probably the same masks.

The Zombie invasion has begun just in time for Christmas. Who can save us? Santa? The President? General Warmongering bloodthirsty psycho?

This is a farce pure and simple. The movie is rough around the edges but for a low budget movie this is great. Some of the pap I have seen does not get past the 10 minute mark but I managed to watch and laugh all the way through this.

It is on Prime so do yourself a favour and see it for what it is. A Z grade, Z budget masterpiece.

Never before have I seen a movie that captures the true magic of Christmas quite as well as this. Nor have I ever seen a movie with a more frightening threat than the zombies in this masterpiece. The experience of watching it is unlike any other, it will take you through a roller coaster of emotions. I laughed, I cried, I even peed a little. The acting is completely unmatched, especially that of the one and only Luke Seals, who's work here will never be topped. The room broke into full applause as soon as Mr. Seals appeared for his 2.3 seconds of screen-time. My only complaint with the film is that, at some points the CGI is a little too good, I'm worried that the effects on display here will intimidate up in coming filmmakers from ever attempting to challenge this juggernaut. I think it could potentially cause the entire film industry to collapse. But was it worth it? Absolutely!

This is a terrible movie. If it cost more that 50 cents to make then they were ripped off. I've seen porn movies with better acting and filming. It looks like the actors are reading off of cue cards, special effects are pretty much non existent. I think my dog could have written better dialogue than what's up there. I don't think this movie would make any sense if you got majorly hammered before watching it. Please don't waste your time unless your in an institution and have nothing else to watch because you can't change the channel. I mean I wasn't expecting an Academy Award winner, but it should be way better than this. And if you watch it after reading this, well can't say you weren't warned. 'nuff said

I saw the DVD cover on Amazon and I thought "Why not? It may be fun!". I wasn't able to watch the entire flick, that's how crappy it is. There is absolutely nothing to save in this wreck of a "movie": the story is completely lame (Long story short, it's Night Of The Living Dead on Christmas Day), the acting is one of the most laughable I've ever seen (including some German gore flicks like Ittenbach's Premutos or Black Past, for example. Even those aren't as badly played as in here), the ... Errrr... "SFX" doesn't even deserve the name of "special effects" (the zombies make-up is incredible: they just look like dirty people most of the time, the storm of the beginning made me laugh my ass off). Oh, and if you wanna know, the story is about some lame family who is celebrating Christmas on a Summer day (never saw so much sun on Christmas Day...) with a team of actors playing Santa and a few elves, there's a storm incoming and a fight between the father of the family and his in-laws. The father throw them out and WHAT's THAT? A ZOMBIE ATTACK! Half an hour later, I've turned the movie off and gave it to a friend who likes this kind of crap. too bad I couldn't gave a big bad 0, it really deserves it. 15€ for crap, just perfect for Christmas!