As a fan of Holmes, I quite enjoyed this film and I'm sure Hammer fans will enjoy it too... but this really messes around with the story a lot , often for no good reason. can anyone explain to me the significance of the knife holmes found on the stone and said that it had been used "in some disgusting ritual..". It was never explained why that was done? To get rid of the evidence that the hound had killed the convict? And the hound looked AWFUL! really unscary ! The only film version that ever had a truly frightening hound was the 1939 Rathbone film - that prolonged and realistic attack was amazing. This is just -- mehhh.
It does have some good points - a brilliantly overdone Hammer musical score and an exciting prologue. And I loved the painful tension during the tarantula sequence... brilliant!
It does have some good points - a brilliantly overdone Hammer musical score and an exciting prologue. And I loved the painful tension during the tarantula sequence... brilliant!