The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire

2002

ThrillerMysteryCrimeTV Movie

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.

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

Rating

6.105
19 votes

Popularity

0.6801

Origin & Countries

CA | en | Canada

Production

Muse Entertainment

Runtime

90 min.

Status

Released

Release: 10/27/2002

Credits

The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire

Rodney GibbonsDirector

The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire

Matt FrewerSherlock Holmes

The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire

Kenneth WelshDr. Watson

The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire

Norris DomingueBruder Sinclair

The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire

Isabel Dos SantosSignora de la Rosa

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Reviews

CinemaSerf

11/27/2022

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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