10 Terrible Mars Movies That Don't Bode Well For The Martian

10. Santa Claus Conquers The Martians

Rotten Tomatoes score: 25%

Box Office: Not available ($200,000 budget)

Objectively, Santa Claus Conquers The Martians is terrible. Its plot, in which Martian children can only get Earth TV so the Martians kidnap Santa Claus (and a couple of Earth children to recognise the real Santa) and force him to make toys, is nonsensical. Its production values are incredibly shoddy. However, it is so bad in such an oddball way that its Ed Wood-ish qualities take it all the way back round to entertaining again.

Despite, or perhaps because of, appearing on a number of critics 'Worst Films of All Time' lists, Santa Claus Conquers The Martians has enjoyed a cult following and a renaissance in popularity in the last couple of decades, helped by its public domain status and appearances on Mystery Science Theatre 3000 and Elvira's Movie Macabre.

The movie's still dreadful, but kind of charmingly so, which means it doesn't make it any higher on this list.