ELVES ’80s so-bad-it’s-good trash – overview and free on YouTube

‘They’re not working for Santa… Anymore’
Elves is a 1989 supernatural horror film about a woman who finds she is part of a neo-Nazi breeding experiment with elves to create supermen. She and friends are trapped in a store with an elf. Only a renegade Santa Claus can save them.

The movie was directed by Jeffrey Mandel from a screenplay co-written with Mike Griffin and Bruce A. Taylor and produced by Mark Paglia (Alien Seed).

The movie stars Dan Haggerty (Axe Giant; The Chilling), Deanna Lund, Ken Carpenter, Julie Austin and Borah Silver.

Plot:
When teenager Kristen (Julie Austin) accidentally cuts her hand during an “Anti-Christmas” pagan ritual with her friends in the woods, the resulting spilt blood awakens an ancient demonic Christmas elf.

The elf is the central figure in a modern-day Neo-Nazi plot to finally bring about the master race that Hitler had always dreamed of conquering the world with. Rather than a race of pure-blood Aryans, it is revealed that Hitler instead dreamed of a race of half-human/half-elf hybrids.

Kristen is also a figure in this plot as she is the last remaining pure-blooded Aryan virgin in the world, her grandfather being a former Nazi who was once involved in the plot (but is now reformed); he is also her father, as inbreeding was somehow considered crucial to maintaining a pure Aryan bloodline.

Meanwhile, Mike McGavin (Dan Haggerty) is an ex-cop who lost his badge when he lost control of his alcoholism. Jobless, penniless, and recently served a notice of eviction from his ramshackle trailer home, winds up becoming the store Santa after the previous Santa is murdered by the elf…

Choice dialogue:
Rubinkraur: “When there is no more room in Hell, the elves will walk the Earth!”
Mike McGavin: “What are you? A goddamn Nazi or something? Is that elf yours?”

Cast and characters:
Dan Haggerty … Mike McGavin
Julie Austin … Kirsten
Deanna Lund … Kirsten’s Mother
Borah Silver … Kirsten’s Grandfather
Mansell Rivers-Bland … Rubinkreuz
Christopher Graham … Willy
Laura Lichstein … Brooke
Stacey Dye … Amy
Winter Monk … Kurt
Jeff Austin … Emil
Allen Lee … Doctor Fitzgerald
Paul Rohrer … Professor O’Conner
Ken Carpenter … Shaver
Michael Tatlock … Hugh Reed
Michael Herst … Sgt. DeSoto

Filming locations:
Colorado Springs, Colorado

Related:
The Elf

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