This Devil's Advocate explores the cinematic wonders of Brian
Desmond Hurst's much loved 1951 adaptation of A Christmas Carol,
Scrooge, through the prism of horror cinema, arguing that the film
has less in common with cosy festive tradition than it does with
terror cinema like James Whale's Bride of Frankenstein, Robert
Weine's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, and F.W. Murnau's Faust.
Beginning with Charles Dickens himself, a prolific writer of ghost
stories, with A Christmas Carol being but one of many, Colin
Fleming then considers earlier cinematic adaptations including
1935's folk-horror-like Scrooge, before offering a full account of
the Hurst/Sim version, stressing what must always be kept at the
forefront of our minds: this is a ghost story.
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