Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20440 in VHS
• Released on: 2000-01-18
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of tapes: 1

Customer Reviews

A Gripper
This is the best Sherlock Holmes film made between the eras of Basil Rathbone and Jeremy Brett. It was the first of two films co-produced by Conan Doyle's estate, and maybe that accounts for its seriousness and high quality. A crisp, witty script pits Holmes against Jack the Ripper (the same idea was used again in the much inferior "Murder by Decree") and parts of it are scary indeed. John Neville is a solid Holmes and Donald Houston is possibly the best Watson ever -- still not the brightest guy around, but you really believe he was an athlete and army officer. Other assets include a wonderful, eerie score and evocative photography. It's a rarity, so snap it up.

Sherlock Holmes VS The Ripper... A Study in Terror!
Although "A Study In Terror" is over 30 years old now, terror still lurks in this frightening film. Together with Dr Watson, Sherlock Holmes is investigating the case of Jack the Ripper, slayer of 7 prostitutes of Victorian London. And his search shows some surprising results... An excellent British feature, with some gruesome moments. In the UK it costs £10 ($17.50), but if you like the sound of it and you live in the US, buy it anyway.

Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack the Ripper: violence and intrigue
The films starts with a shot of the feet of a prositute which walks. We see someone is following him, a man. The girl looks to his back: "Hello darling. Would you like to have a fun?". Suddenly a knife cuts her thin neck. An old lady discovers the dead body: "Help, police, murder!!".

This initial sequence is the quintaessence of "A Study in Terror", a film which mixes a fiction character, Sherlock Holmes, with an existent criminal, Jack the Ripper, with great violence and charm. Violent prostitutes murders in Whitechapel and a mysterious box sent to the 221B Baker Street are the first clues which involve Sherlock Holmes into the investigation. Emotions and intrigue in a film full of Old England taste and colour. The movie has a superb ambientation and a very interesting script which mixes the character of Sherlock Holmes with a criminal of his time: Jack the Ripper. Much better than the boring "Murder by Decree", the film has excellent performances by John Neville (a wonderful Sherlock Holmes) and Donald Huston (Watson). With a great charm and details of a very good taste, the story is well constructed, funny and intelligent. The movie is fairly filmed, with beautiful colours which reminds to the Hammer films, and elegantly directed by James Hill.

The Sherlock Holmes aficionado will not find in "A Study in Terror" any excuse to be unsattisfied.

The image and sound quality of this particular edition are very good.