Here is a basket of holiday stinkers.
Jim Carrey’s 2009 version of A Christmas Carol. A star-studded cast is wasted as Carrey plays multiple parts, all of them with atrocious English accents. Those of you who thought Charles Dickens didn’t put in enough carriage chases into his novella will find them here.
Star Wars Holiday Special (1978). OK, technically it’s about Life Day, the Wookiee festival which Han Solo and Chewie want to make it home for. This film is so deliciously, excruciatingly awful — Bea Arthur sings! Harvey Korman as an alien chef! — that George Lucas yanked it and threw it down the memory hole. It exists on the Web, so enjoy.
A Very Murray Christmas (2015). Unforgiveable. Absolutely unforgiveable. Bill Murray can be a comedic genius but this self-indulgent piece of dreck is going to earn him a few more millennia in Purgatory. And I’ve never been fond of him in Scrooged either.
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964) — the only way to enjoy this stink-fest is by seeing the Mystery Science Theater 3000 version.
Santa With Muscles (1996). Two words: Hulk Hogan.
Santa Claus (1959). A Mexican epic with Santa Claus, played by José Elías Moreno, battling demonic forces (clad in scary red tights and puffy shorts) and bad boys to continue his works of goodness. Luckily he is aided by Merlin and is able to triumph in the end.