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Santa vs Satan<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

It’s the kind of movie you see on Telemundo at the age of 15, and puzzle over, watching with rapt attention and fascination.\u00c2\u00a0 A real classic of Mexican film making.
\nThen later see references here and there and feel like you’re in on some joke.
\nSurely there are movies of quality, but given one’s dunthers, I’d end up watching this one.<\/p>\n

Looking it up just now, I see that MST3K\u00c2\u00a0ran with\u00c2\u00a0it<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t know why I’m disappointed to learn that — I’d rather it float around Telemundo, in its original language, without the silhouette wise-cracking distraction.\u00c2\u00a0 I didn’t take any narcotics, but I imagine those would be overkill.<\/p>\n

It’s playing at the Hollywood Theater<\/a>.<\/p>\n

SANTA VS. SATAN\u00e2\u20ac\u201dSanta ain’t right in the 1959 Mexican trash film Santa vs. Satan. He lives in space, battles Lucifer, and his reindeer laugh maniacally. Also he might be a friend to the great wizard Merlin. Join Filmusik as they provide the live score, sound effects, and voice cast for this skewed Christmas flick. I’m going to root for Satan. CF
\nHollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy, 10 pm, $10-12<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Satanridesoff\"<\/a>\"santasatanlivingroom\"<\/p>\n

It may be that if you threw me in the year 1959 and showed it as some straight-forward flick to observe, I wouldn’t be particularly interested.\u00c2\u00a0 Context makes the track flick.\u00c2\u00a0 Kitsch!<\/p>\n

Something like watching this<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I am told that GSN is running the late night black-and-white episodes of What’s My Line? and I’ve Got A Secret for two weeks…so enjoy ’em while you can.<\/em><\/p>\n

The show is entirely uninteresting outside an anthropological context.\u00c2\u00a0 There is an actual game show on NBC during prime time, and I wouldn’t watch it unless you paid me enough to watch it<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 But I watched a 1950s episode of “What’s My Line” and saw… Betty White.\u00c2\u00a0
\nAlso Fred Allen, who I don’t really know except as the partner for George Burns.\u00c2\u00a0 (Who died at the age of 99, and then had his death announced a few months later for marketing purposes — a thought I had to bite my tongue on when some oldsters discussed his passing at a church breakfast, like a lot of things I always bit my tongue on.)
\nI’ve seen Fred Allen’s particular contribution\u00c2\u00a0for this episode of “What’s My Line” play out any number of times on, for instance\u00c2\u00a0“Whose Line Is It”.\u00c2\u00a0 He tripped into studio audience laugh explosion at a question, “Would my Uncle war this?” — and then went back to the well again and again on the suggestion that his Uncle was a cross-dresser.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s all very familiar, and all very tedious.
\nAlso I hadn’t a clue who the celebrity contestant was, which was interesting in its revelation moment when the panel pulled their blinders off and realized it was “Oh!\u00c2\u00a0 Him!”\u00c2\u00a0 Of course.\u00c2\u00a0 That guy.\u00c2\u00a0 How obvious.\u00c2\u00a0 To be sure there is a pretty good chance here in the year 2010 that you can drop a well known celebrity in front of me, and I won’t know who is\u00c2\u00a0s\/he.
\nIt’s not anything that I would\u00c2\u00a0find interesting in the 1950s or 1960s, when it aired.\u00c2\u00a0 But it’s interesting 30, 40, 50 years later.\u00c2\u00a0 Particularly\u00c2\u00a0with the transcribed across technologies effect of a\u00c2\u00a0distorted image at the edges of the screen — that’s probably the most entertaining part of the show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Santa vs Satan.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s the kind of movie you see on Telemundo at the age of 15, and puzzle over, watching with rapt attention and fascination.\u00c2\u00a0 A real classic of Mexican film making. Then later see references here and there and feel like you’re in on some joke. Surely there are movies of quality, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7286"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7290,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7286\/revisions\/7290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}