Elves (1989)
Directed by Jeffrey Mandel / Jim Wilson
Genres - Mystery, Horror |
Sub-Genres - Creature Film, Holiday Film |
Run Time - 89 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Robert Firsching
This particularly bizarre horror variant on Joe Dante's Gremlins (1985) was directed by newcomer Jeff Mandel. The ridiculous plot concerns the efforts of a group of Nazis to set the stage for a Fourth Reich by mating one of Santa Claus' elves with a pretty teenaged waitress (Julie Austin). The cast is peppered with former television stars, including Deanna Lund of Land of the Giants as Austin's mother (she kills cats and has a nude scene) and Dan Haggerty of The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams as a drunken department-store Santa who used to be a detective. Even better is Haggerty's predecessor, a cocaine fiend who gets castrated by the Nazi elves. Mandel went on to co-direct Robo-C.H.I.C. (1989), which was almost as bad.
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Christmas, elf, good-vs-evil, monster, mutant, Nazism, scientist