
The Luddites
1988


“A Holiday classic reimagined.”
214 votes
London, 1843. Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter old man, despises the Christmas holiday. Over the course of Christmas Eve night he is visited by three ghosts to show him his past, present and future.
Director
Nick MurphyWriters
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
N/A
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**_A darkly magical realist re–telling that definitely isn't for kids_** >_If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart._ - Charles Dickens; _A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas_ (1843) > _I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me._ - _A Christmas Carol_ > **Frank Cross:** _I get it. You're taking…
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Nudity, the f-word, witches, child molestation, public urination, grave desiccation, hatred, prostitution, and it all ends on a nice note of spite... and I guess those changes were added in to make it politically correct? I guess the old milktoast ghost story about redemption wasn't politically correct enough, so adding in the f-word, witches, child molestation, and prostitution... all somehow made it more politically correct. In this version women all have magic powers, because women, and can use them to spite people, and it all ends on the uplifting note that there are more men to smit…
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