INFINTE SANTA 8000 (2013)
Special Edition Blu-ray
Label: Synapse Films
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 101 Minutes 52 Seconds
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Widescreen (1.78:1)
Director: Michael Neel
Cast: Duane Bruce, Tara Henry, Michael Neel
Synopsis: It is the year 8000. The old world is gone. Not much remains, except for the mutants, scum, and robo-people. Humanity has been wiped out and everyone must kill to survive... even Santa! When his beloved Martha is kidnapped by the evil Dr. Shackleton, Santa and his robotic reindeer head out into the post-apocalyptic wasteland to rescue her. Bloody carnage ensues as Santa fights his way through hordes of mutant creatures including bat-sharks, kill-bots and even a giant Easter bunny to save Martha and carry on the Christmas spirit. Originally conceived as a multi-part web series, INFINITE SANTA 8000 has been re-imagined here in an all-new feature length "Director's Cut" adding new scenes, re-animated and retouched shots, and recut to match the original script! See the film the way it was always intended. Featuring a blasting heavy metal score, tons of blood and guts and exciting sci-fi action! You've never seen a Christmas movie like this one!
Synopsis: It is the year 8000. The old world is gone. Not much remains, except for the mutants, scum, and robo-people. Humanity has been wiped out and everyone must kill to survive... even Santa! When his beloved Martha is kidnapped by the evil Dr. Shackleton, Santa and his robotic reindeer head out into the post-apocalyptic wasteland to rescue her. Bloody carnage ensues as Santa fights his way through hordes of mutant creatures including bat-sharks, kill-bots and even a giant Easter bunny to save Martha and carry on the Christmas spirit. Originally conceived as a multi-part web series, INFINITE SANTA 8000 has been re-imagined here in an all-new feature length "Director's Cut" adding new scenes, re-animated and retouched shots, and recut to match the original script! See the film the way it was always intended. Featuring a blasting heavy metal score, tons of blood and guts and exciting sci-fi action! You've never seen a Christmas movie like this one!
Infinite Santa 8000 the movie is a creation of filmmakers Greg Ansin and Michael Neel, the same demented minds who brought us the indie horror anthology Drive-In Horror Show (2011), the project started as a 13 episode web-series on YouTube and it's developed quite a cult following over the years and here we have a director's cut of the series that expands on the original story and amps up the gruesome Santa-themed violence, adding new scenes, as well as re-animated and retouched shots, now recut to match the original script.
In the reality of Infinite Santa 8000 Earth has been transformed into a post-apocalyptic wasteland populated by robotic-mutants hybrids Hell bent on destroying Christmas. Our cyborg Santa wanders the wastelands with his robot companion Martha scavenging for scraps to meat and battling a series of grotesque mutants and violent kill-bots in an attempt to carry-on the Christmas spirit.
At the start of the movie Santa is engaged in an epic death match with a robo-mutant from which he emerges victorious, utterly devastating his opponent. Returning to his sanctuary in the wastelands things quickly turn ugly when his arch-enemy, the evil Dr. Shackleton, kidnaps Martha for nefarious purposes. Our cybernetic Santa jumps into his slayer-sled drawn by his loyal robo-reindeer and must face off against the diabolical mad scientist and his hordes of mutant creatures and kill bots to save Martha.
The carnage comes fast and ridiculous and with tasty holiday puns like "I'll color my eggs with your blood!", it's delightfully corny stuff. Dr. Shackleton's horde of mutant creatures are pretty fantastic, we have crab-monkeys, bat-sharks, octo-blobs and a ferocious and fanged 100 ft. tall Easter Bunny that's just chews shit up, it's a brilliant assortment of mutant and cybernetic menaces for Infinite Santa to face-off against, it's a completely cartoony and awesome slice of x-mas carnage.
The animation is somewhat lo-fi but wouldn't be out of place on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim, it's fun stuff with a blazing heavy metal soundtrack that suits the onscreen carnage exquisitely. I usually describe this as The Road Warrior (1981) by way of the "Robot Santa" episodes of Futurama and if that sounds like a sweet slice of demented x-mas awesomeness I assure you that it is.
If you're looking for a demented ultra-violent Christmas movie this year that's a bit off the beaten-path and just might traumatize the kids I say give the Infinite Santa 8000 movie a watch! Kudos to Synapse for the HD upgrade of this animated Christmas nightmare; judging by the two reviews on IMD, one of them my own, this is a truly underseen gem, and I appreciate them taking a chance on it. I hope this Blu-ray release gets plenty of new eyes on this one, it deserves to be part of your demented Christmas movie marathons starting this year, and well into the future.
Audio/Video: Infinite Santa 8000 (2013) arrives on region-free Blu-ray from Synapse Films in 1080p HD framed in 1.78:1 widescreen. I have had the Midnight Releasing DVD of this flick since 2013, and have watched it pretty much every Christmas season since, so the HD upgrade is appreciated. Colors look refreshed, animation lines look, it's quite an improvement over the DVD for sure. Audio comes by way of
English DTS-HD MA 2.0 with optional English subtitles, dialogue is nicely prioritized, and the the score elements of the more subtle score variety and the crunchy heavy metal tunes sound terrific, it's a very pleasing uncompressed audio upgrade.
Extras include The Complete Original 13-Part Web Series - with Optional Audio Commentary that runs about 32-minutes, we also get Interviews with the creators Greg Ansin and Michael Neel; artists Dawn Scaltreto, Nick Flanagan and Jeff O'Brien, as well as voice actors Duane Bruce, who voices Santa, as well as Tara Henry, who voices both Martha and Dr. Shackleton. Also interviewed is Eric Welsh who did sound and post production. Additionally there's a 5-min
Making the Score featurette with Greg Ansin in his studio creating music for the film, plus a pair of Music Videos, and a selection of Trailers for the film and the web-series.
The single-disc Blu-ray release arrives in a black keepvcase with a single-sided wrap, plus a Slipcover with the same artwork. I am proud to sat that both the wrap and slip feature pull-quote from my original DVD review, which is pretty cool. Tucked away inside there's a 2023 Synapse Films Catalog, which is just fun to look through and see all the cool stuff they've released.
Special Features:
- The Complete Original 13-Part Web Series - with Optional Audio Commentary (31:40)
- Interview with Greg Ansin and Michael Neel: Creators (10:11)
- Interview with Dawn Scaltreto: Artist (4:15)
- Interview with Nick Flanagan: Artist (2:59)
- Interview with Jeff O'Brien: Artist & Coloridt (3:06)
- Interview with Duane Bruce: The Voice of Santa (5:18)
- Interview with Tara Henry: The Voice off Martha and Dr. Shackleton (4:35)
- Interview with Eric Welsh: Sound and Post Production (4:39)
- Making the Score (5:15)
- Music Video 1 (3:19)
- Music Video 2 (2:24)
- Trailer 1 (1:50)
- Trailer 2 (1:00)
- Trailer 3 (1:42)
- Streaming Series Trailer (3:59)
- Web Series Trailer (1:40).
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