A Christmas Carol is a classic novella written in 1843 by Charles Dickens and was almost immediately adapted for visual performance, first on stage and then on screen. Almost two centuries later, the story of miser Ebenezer Scrooge and his holiday brush with the supernatural is still popular with audiences and has been remade many times over.

Mashable / Images: Shutterstock Some people get in the mood for the holidays by decorating a tree, baking cookies, or venturing out to look at houses draped in thousands of string lights. Others just pop on a Christmas movie to get into the spirit.

Conversely, many classic Christmas movies are not explicitly sci-fi, yet several of them have science fiction elements. In a certain sense, any movie involving Santa or miracles falls into the science fiction or fantasy genre. Some classics have even more sci-fi elements, even though they were not intended to be part of the genre at all.

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