Thursday, October 10, 2024

LET’S GET PHYSICAL: SCREAM QUEENS NAKED CHRISTMAS (1996) ** ½

FORMAT:  BLU-RAY

(Note:  This was a bonus feature on the Santa Claws Blu Ray.) 

Hey, remember that Scream Queens Christmas video Debbie Rochon was making in Santa Claws?  Well, apparently the film-within-the-film is a real movie!  And by “real movie”, I mean it’s a cheap looking hour-long excuse for a bunch of Scream Queens to don and then un-don their gay apparel for the camera.  Like Santa Claws, it shares the great song, “Scream Queen”.  And like Santa Claws, it has lots of skin on display.

The film is hosted by Santa Claws himself.  Mostly, he just introduces clips of each Scream Queen stripping for the camera.  One crimson-clad model disrobes while dancing in front of Christmas trees.  Then, she does another number while wrapped up with a giant red ribbon and bow before running a teddy bear all over her body while laying on a sled.  The next model does a striptease blindfolded.  This is followed by a saucy redhead in a sexy Santa suit who takes it off.  They saved the best for last as Debbie Rochon does a hot dance while in spangly red number. 

This is basically just extended model scenes from Santa Claws.  I imagine the filmmakers had so much B-Roll footage they decided they could actually make another movie from the material.  By using just enough clips from Santa Claws and newly shot scenes of Grant Kramer as Santa, they were able to get it to an hour.  It doesn’t help though that many of the scenes don’t have a whole lot of energy, feature too much slow motion, and/or are backed by corny Christmas tunes.  (The last ten minutes also relies too heavily on recycled footage.)

If you’re a fan of Debbie, it will be worth watching.  If you love Santa Claws, it’ll be an interesting companion piece.  Other than that, there’s enough nudity here to justify its existence, but it still somehow winds up being less than a sum of its parts. 

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