Balladeer’s Blog’s Sixteenth Annual Christmas Carol-a-Thon continues with this review of a VERY underappreciated adaptation of the Dickens classic.
A CHRISTMAS CAROL: A GHOST STORY (2022) – Let me state right at the beginning that this version of the Carol has jumped into my Top 10 favorites, yet astonishingly as of this writing there are NO user or critic reviews of the production at IMDb.
This presentation joins the many filmed stage performances of A Christmas Carol but towers over most of them. The iconic Mark Gatiss wrote the adaptation and Adam Penford directed.
To encourage as many people as possible to watch this Carol I will emphasis just once, here at the beginning, that this production truly has nearly universal appeal. I repeat, below will be the only time I cover this aspect of the work in my review, but it’s necessary here in 2025. Continue reading