You’ve probably seen your share of zombie movies, but you’ve never seen a zombie “A Christmas Carol.” It’s heeeere.

“Disney’s A Christmas Carol,” the latest adaptation of the indestructible 1843 Charles Dickens’ classic using 3-D motion-capture technology, is yet another one of those dead-eyed computer-generated films featuring a cast of moribund animated characters.

Why on earth would you hire Jim Carrey to play an animated character in the first place? He is the closest thing to a cartoon character in human form. As Dickens’ “odious” and “stingy” Ebenezer Scrooge, as well as the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come, Carrey is fine, although his British accents are a bit of a mystery.

In the triple roles of Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and Marley’s Ghost is Gary Oldman, while Colin Firth plays Scrooge’s nephew Fred (frankly, I would rather see all the actors in this cast perform in the flesh).

Director Robert Zemeckis (“Forrest Gump”), auteur of the dead-eyed 3-D efforts “The Polar Express” and “Beowulf,” takes his visual cue from John Leech’s wood engravings for the original edition of the story. Zemeckis also takes a writing credit even though the screenplay sounds like the one the great Noel Langley (“The Wizard of Oz”) wrote for the 1951 version of this tale with the unforgettable Alastair Sim as Scrooge.

We hear the familiar lines - “Are there no workhouses?” “There’s more gravy than of grave about you,” “God bless us, everyone,” etc. - and await the visitations of Jacob Marley’s dreadful (and dreadfully loud) apparition and the others.

The difference is that this “A Christmas Carol” is a vulgar Disney-theme-park ride, complete with an inaccurate, anachronistic image of Big Ben with scaffolding.

In the course of events, Scrooge falls from great heights, rides a rocketlike cone, soars over chimney stacks, gets chased by devil horses and slides down roofs and gutters.

He has beady-dead eyes, a nose and chin that almost meet and a permanent scowl, and in silhouette suggests an ambulatory black hoop in a tall hat. The Ghost of Christmas Past arrives in the form of a flickering humanoid candle. The jolly, jovial Ghost of Christmas Present looks most like Carrey himself.

Another problem that persists in these 3-D films is their oppressive murk and gloom. Watching this film through those uncomfortable 3-D glasses, I felt like I was in a cave.

The one truly spectacular effect the 3-D process provided was making it seem like it was snowing inside the theater.

Still, the film is dark, literally and figuratively. It’s too scary for little kids and monotonously underlighted. If this is the future of film, perhaps I should invest in night-vision goggles.

Rated PG. At AMC Loews Boston Common, Regal Fenway Stadium, IMAX theaters at Jordan’s Furniture in Natick and Reading, and suburban theaters.

(In addition to subjecting Dickens to a corporate takeover and ugly makeover, “Disney’s A Christmas Carol” contains frightening images.)