TheWrap’s 12 Days of Offbeat, Oddball Holiday Flicks

TheWrap's staffers don't watch "Elf" or "Miracle on 34th Street"; we watch "Gremlins," "Bad Santa" and Elvis' comeback special

"Santa Claus" (1959): Leave it Rene Cardona to give us a kiddie movie where Santa Claus teams up with Merlin the Magician to battle Satan. Throw in crazy dream sequences about life-size dancing dolls, hallucinogenic cocktails, child toy-making slaves and the creepiest wind-up reindeer ever imagined, and the result is a crackpot Christmas classic sure to psychically scar children and adults alike. — ALONSO DURALDE

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