This Devils Advocate explores the cinematic wonders of Brian Desmond Hursts 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 Whales Bride of Frankenstein Robert Weines The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and F.W. Murnaus Faust. Beginning with Charles Dickens himself a prolific writer of ghost stories with A Christmas Carol being but one of many Colin F