The third ghost is her boss, who she is also dating, dressed up like Santa Claus. Depending on your relationship history, this might seem scarier than it is. Christmas Cupid (2010) Image: FreeformĬhristina Milian is the Scrooge figure in this ABC Family holiday comedy, and the three ghosts are her ex-boyfriends. Instead, a myna bird caws Scrooge to the graveyard, where he finds not only his grave, but also Tiny Tim’s. In a strange choice, the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come doesn’t appear in human form at all. Unfortunately, the only surviving version is a black and white kinescope. A Christmas Carol (1954) Image: CBSįredric March stars as Scrooge in this, the first color televised version of the tale. We get it, you don’t want to terrify the preschoolers, but there’s a reason it’s lowest on the list. Oscar the Grouch as Scrooge contends with a CGI floating robot with googly eyes as the Ghost of Christmas Future. If you were going into this one expecting to be spooked, I don’t know what to tell you. A Sesame Street Christmas Carol (2006) Image: Sesame Workshop So in the holiday spirit, I decided to watch every film version and evaluate them on one single criteria: How scary do they make the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come? Don your sleeping cap and come with us on a journey into holiday horror. In the text, Dickens describes the ghost as “shrouded in a deep black garment, which concealed its head, its face, its form, and left nothing of it visible save one outstretched hand.” This leaves a lot of leeway for adaptations to interpret, and A Christmas Carol is one of the most-adapted works of fiction of all time. These three ghosts convince our miserly man to change his ways, but the third one does the heavy lifting, showing Scrooge how soon he’ll be dead and buried, while nobody mourns his passing. Tight-fisted, mean old miser Ebenezer Scrooge falls asleep on Christmas Eve and is visited by three spirits: the Ghost of Christmas Past, a man in a sleeping cap the Ghost of Christmas Present, a rotund, jolly fellow and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, a harrowing, silent specter of death. You probably all know the story of Charles Dickens’ endlessly adapted 1843 holiday story A Christmas Carol, even if you’ve never read it.
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