Dennis Fulcher

Dennis Fulcher is the main antagonist of the Inside No 9 episode "The Devil Of Christmas". He is an ageing film director who is interviewed about a film that he made back in the 1970s, which is titled The Devil of Christmas.

Derek Jacobi provides the voiceover of an older Dennis, whereas Naz Osmanoglu portrays a younger Dennis on-screen.

Past
Dennis Fulcher is a film director, who has directed an unknown amount of snuff movies during the 1970s.

The Devil of Christmas
Dennis begins to direct his latest snuff film, which he initially makes out to be a made for television movie The Devil of Christmas, with the actors being unaware of what they are actually involved in. Only a select amount of crew members are in on Dennis's true motivations for the production. He films the movie over the course of a day, and dismisses each actor from the set after they finish filming their scenes. The last remaining cast member is the female lead, who Dennis has had handcuffed to a bed as part of a mock final scene in which her character is killed off. However, to her horror and confusion, Dennis ads on an extra scene cut from the script, which involves her being gagged and later decapitated by him whilst he is dressed up as Krampus.

Arrest and Interview
Decades later, Dennis's snuff films are later uncovered and he is arrested by the police. He watches The Devil of Christmas with a police officer providing the interrogation and gives him information on the making of the production, almost in the same way a director would provide a commentary for a normal movie. It is presumed that following the completion of watching the film Dennis was later charged and found guilty of murder, and perhaps other undisclosed killings that he committed during his snuff film career.