Santa Claus at Alamo Drafthouse

Hosted by Screen Slate Editor-in-Chief Jon Dieringer

It’s Christmas Eve and Santa Claus is getting ready for his annual journey across the globe from his castle in space. There’s only one problem though: Lucifer is concocting a plan to turn the children of the world against Santa. As Lucifer’s assistant Pitch gets to work on swaying the hearts and minds of a group of children in Mexico City, will Santa and his own assistant Merlin be able to foil the evil plot before it's too late?

Winner of the Golden Gate Award for Best International Family Film at the 1959 San Francisco International Film Festival, René Cardona’s SANTA CLAUS is a singularly strange Christmas film from the man who gave the world René Cardona Jr. (GUYANA: CRIME OF THE CENTURY) and René Cardona III (VACATION OF TERROR).

35mm print courtesy of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts