Ever think Dickens’s A Christmas Carol was spooky due to the ghosts, and as such might make a better Halloween story? Well, your prayers have been answered with the new TV special: A Halloween Carol!
In A Halloween Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge thinks Halloween is “humbug” too, and he won’t allow anyone to dress up in scary costumes at work, nor will he participate in “Trick-or-Treat” candy distribution for the children. And so, to temper his inflexibility, and hopefully achieve a change of heart in our cantankerous anti-hero Mr. Scrooge, he is visited by three ghosts on Halloween, only this time they don’t actually represent anything so much as they’re just really frightening and sinister malevolent demonic spirits, apparitions and poltergeists, and they won’t leave him alone until he accepts and exhibits the spirit of Halloween, which he finally does, buying a huge bag of candy for Trick-or-Treaters, and giving so much of it out, it produces obesity, cavities and diabetes in the local population of youngsters, which is really not his fault as he was, in fact, bullied into participating in Halloween in the first place, as we all know.
A cautionary tale about Halloween humbug, candy consumption and bullying, it’s A Halloween Carol, coming soon!
A cautionary tale about Halloween humbug, candy consumption and bullying, it’s A Halloween Carol, coming soon!
