TV-14, 90 min.
Director: Paul McGuigan
Writers: Mark Gatiss (also
creator), Steven Moffat (creator), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (works)
Starring: Benedict
Cuberbatch, Martin Freeman, Russell Tovey, Amelia Bullmore, Clive Mantle, Una
Stubbs, Rupert Graves, Mark Gatiss, Andrew Scott, Simon Paisley Day, Sasha
Behar, Stephen Wight, Gordon Kennedy, Kevin Trainor
“The Hound of the
Baskervilles” is probably the most well known of Sherlock Holmes’ casebook. It’s
certainly one of the most frequently filmed. It’s also the one that borders on
horror. I watched the 1959 version with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing as
Holmes several years ago for my annual Horrorfest. The update for the series “Sherlock”,
relettered to read “The Hounds of Baskerville”, lives up to every previous
version. Although, there’s still only one hound, so I don’t know why either
word is pluralized.
In this version, Baskerville
is a military base where it is suspected that gene-altering experiments are
taking place, and the rumor is that one of its experiments has escaped and is
terrorizing a nearby village. Government conspiracy and a man theorizing that
his father was killed by some sort of devil creature seems all a little
fantastical for this modern Sherlock; but as usual, in the telling of the story
he hears something that allows his to form a theory that intrigues him. There
are also some very funny moments during Sherlock’s initial interview of the
victim regarding smoking.
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