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The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire

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6.2/10 • 20

2002-10-271h 30m

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A fly-by-night killer is leaving Sherlock Holmes in the dark.

The scene of the crime is Whitechapel, the same London district notorious for the recent attacks of Jack the Ripper. Three monks are found dead, the apparent victims of a vampire - now, someone else is out for blood. Or is it something else? As bizarre events unfold, the answer is left to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to find.

Directors
Rodney Gibbons

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  1. Matt Frewer

    Matt Frewer

    Sherlock Holmes

  2. Kenneth Welsh

    Kenneth Welsh

    Dr. Watson

  3. Norris Domingue

    Norris Domingue

    Bruder Sinclair

  4. Isabel Dos Santos

    Isabel Dos Santos

    Signora de la Rosa

  5. Neville Edwards

    Neville Edwards

    Dr. Chagas

  6. Maria Bertrand

    Maria Bertrand

    Woman in Cape

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CinemaSerf

Nov 27, 2022

6/10

This starts off with a rather curious disclaimer stating it has taken the characters from the public domain and that no effort has been made to liaise with the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. All perfectly legal, of course, but it did make me wonder what liberties they were about to take with the long established characters of "Sherlock Holmes" (Matt Frewer) and "Dr. Watson" (Kenneth Welsh). Well, as it happens, that intrigue is about as good as this gets as our super-sleuthing duo become embroiled in a series of murders that people suspect might be the work of a vampire. Frewer and Welsh are not Rathbone/Bruce, but they make for a decent pairing in this otherwise unremarkable drama that seems to draw more from "Cadfael" then from "Hound of the Baskervilles". The mystery develops pretty routinely, as you'd expect from a ninety minute television movie, before an ending that reminded me of "Scooby Doo". It isn't terrible, indeed the production looks fine, but the sum of the parts is underwhelming, with some pretty wordy dialogue and too many characters to clutter up any participation from the audience in the investigation. Maybe one for die-hard fans of these iconic characters, but otherwise just daytime telly fodder.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
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Keywords
victorian englandserial killerwhitechapel