Santa the Facist Years
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3m 27s
Directed by Bill Plympton | 4 mins | 2008
Doe-eyed elves manufacture weaponry and snowmen goose-step into Lapland by order of a radicalized Santa in this twisted miniature fantasia, narrated by Matthew Modine.
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