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Crappy Christmas at Movies on a Big Screen: The Magic Christmas Tree

Presented by Movies on a Big Screen at Guild Theater

December 11, 2011

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It's the first weekend of Crappy Christmas, and Movies on a Big Screen will also be showing two Crappy Christmas short films before the so-called "feature"!

The Magic Christmas Tree: See the Magic Christmas Talk! See the discussion about bologna sandwiches! See The Black Magic Witch? See the Creepy Giant?? See The Runaway Lawnmower?!?!? See the Grass Eating Turtle! See Mom talk on the phone! Oh yes--all of these wondrous holiday "surprises" await you in this obscure Christmas "film" from 1964.

What's it about? Well, what little sense of it that exists kind of goes like this: Three boys talk about their lunches. They walk home and one of the boys, Mark, visits a creepy old woman who gets Mark to rescue Lucifer, her cat, out of a tree. Mark hits his head and the woman is transformed into a witch. She seduces Mark into the "dark arts" by giving him a ring with a magic seed to grow a magic talking (possessed?) tree so long as the correct (occult) ritual is followed, and the tree will also grant three wishes.

Mark plants the seed causing the demonic tree to grow, and abuses two of the wishes, one of which involves having Santa glued to a chair so Mark can demand toys from him. Then Mark is in the woods with a creepy giant (we don't really know why and don't really care, either). Mark uses his final wish to undo the other wishes. Mark gets cookies. The end. Yeah--that's pretty much it. Oh--there's also the runaway lawnmower and the turtle, but you'll just have to see it for yourself. In an uncommon show of mercy, nearly everyone associated with this "film" never worked in movies again.