20 Worst Holiday Movies

SANTA CLAUS: THE MOVIE (1985)

Whenever the major Hollywood studios spend eight or nine figures to criticize corporate greed and excess, someone is trying to sell you something. In this case, it was McDonald's, who signed what was the biggest product-placement deal to date with the producers, and whose brand is promoted frequently throughout the movie. Apparently, no one behind this $50 million movie — an astronomical budget at the time — saw the irony of making the villain an evil toy tycoon (John Lithgow) who takes advantage of the thwarted efforts of a misguided elf (Dudley Moore) to industrialize toy production at the North Pole. Just as unwatchable as it sounds.