Scrooged

Bill Murray stars in this 1988 comedy that takes a then-modern swing at Charles Dickens’ classic A Christmas Carol. Murray plays a TV executive who loses the love of his life because of his curmudgeonly ways.

But after he fires one of his employees on Christmas Eve, he gets visited by a series of ghost who show him the error of his ways.

What makes this one genuinely spooky — besides some genuinely scary ghosts — is that Murray’s Frank Cross is unrepetentantly nasty almost to the very end, when he makes a seemingly manic reversal.