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Jeffrey Mandel (writer)
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They don't work for Santa anymore!
Plot:
A young woman discovers that she is the focus of an evil nazi experiment involving selective breeding and summoned elves... more | add synopsis
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Women of Christmas Horror
 (From pretty-scary. 24 December 2009, 8:46 PM, PST)

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Unintentional masterpiece of good/bad horror,in the tradition of Edward D. Wood more (20 total)

Cast

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Dan Haggerty ... Mike McGavin
Julie Austin ... Kirsten
Deanna Lund ... Kirsten's mother
Borah Silver ... Kirsten's grandfather
Mansell Rivers-Bland ... Rubinkraur
Christopher Graham ... Willy
Laura Lichstein ... Brooke
Stacey Dye ... Amy
Winter Monk ... Kurt
Jeff Austin ... Emil
Allen Lee ... Dr. Fitzgerald
Paul Rohrer ... Prof. O'Conner

Ken Carpenter ... Shaver

Michael Tatlock ... Hugh Reed
Michael Herst ... Sgt. DeSoto
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89 min
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Dead Santa: [whispers] Santa said ORAL. more

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Unintentional masterpiece of good/bad horror,in the tradition of Edward D. Wood, 27 May 2008
Author: tone143 from Vancouver, Canada

This is a laugh-riot,right down there with Ed Wood's "Plan 9" for sheer incompetence.I must admit,I've never been sure just how much camp the filmmakers were shooting for with "Elves".I think with films this bad(good),the director just gives up at one point and goes for schlock & laughs.The acting is abysmal(Dan Haggerty's a million laughs),the Elf is a rubber mask on a broomstick,the whole nazi eugenics thing comes out of nowhere near the end and makes zero sense,but as another fellow wrote here,I laughed my ass off.Although I'm a recovering addict,a little maryjane might enhance the experience.btw,the scene where the nasty dept. store manager,Hugh,tries to pay Haggerty in doughnuts,and then Haggerty gets locked out of his trailer,with no smokes..it's like an outtake from "Strange Brew".I laughed until I soiled myself.

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