As the calendar creeps quickly towards Christmas Day on the 25th of December, were counting down the days with a special advent calendar of festive films, revealing a set of rare images for each chosen film to surprise and delight film fans. Unfortunately, not all Christmas films can be great: there are the intentionally awful like Santa Claus Vs The Martians, but there are also those that aimed for the stars, and the auspicious title of hero-driven blockbuster specifically, but which fall almost flat on their faces despite the best efforts of the talents involved. Jeaanot Szwarc's Santa Claus the movie falls into that latter category - designed to be a blockbuster to rival their most famous film creation, Superman producers Ilya and Alexander Salkin teamed up with Supergirl director to give fans a new, traditional take on the Santa Claus story. What resulted was over-sweet, poorly executed and a little too silly even for festive audiences - but it was one of the finest camp delights ever to be released. Imagine how different it all might have been if John Carpenter - who was originally wanted for the director's chair - had been hired, and had given the leading role to Brian Dennehy. Anyway. here are your ten rare images from Santa Claus: The Movie - supplemented by a special bonus image...
Bonus: Sheep
Who knew a publicity shot with a lamb could look so natural? Probably not director Jeannot Szwarc before he agreed to this particular on-set image from Santa Claus...
