Dollar Store Finds #1

[wacky_packy8878]

This weekend, I got two Christmas DVDs from a new dollar store in another city. They are put out by a company called PC Treasures.

"Cartoon Christmas" (no relation to Cartoon Network's holiday themed lineups of course)
This has the usual PD compilation on it, but there are a couple of interesting sounding ones, which are marked by a *. Anyway, here is the list:

Snow Foolin
Hector's Hectic Life
Christmas Visit*
Christmas Comes but Once a Year
Winter Draws On
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
A Christmas Dream*
Somewhere in Dreamland
O Come All Ye Faithful* (a "Hymnalogue")

The other one is a Christmas Double Feature.

"Santa Claus Conquers the Martians." A B-Movie about Santa Claus trying to bring holiday cheer to the red planet. Not animated, but noteable.

"The Night Before Christmas" Okay, many a special have this name, but this one is just a bit different. Its a rare 1968 animated cartoon from "Playhouse Pictures." Its about how the author of the namesake poem, Clement Clark Moore, came to write it. It runs about 25 minutes, and I haven't watched it just yet, but it sounds good.

[Chow Hound]

"Santa Claus Conquers the Martians." A B-Movie about Santa Claus trying to bring holiday cheer to the red planet. Not animated, but noteable.

If you insist on watching this one, I recommend the MST3K version. Watching it without the help of Joel and the 'bots has been known to induce comas.

[Studio Toledo]

If you insist on watching this one, I recommend the MST3K version. Watching it without the help of Joel and the 'bots has been known to induce comas.

And if you ever look for an UnMSTed edition, I would probabliy recommend tracking down an copy of the New Line Cinema/Embassy Home Video release that does have the title of the film at the beginning, and comes from a much darker though less-faded print.