August 20, 2009
Good whodunit
Peter Cushing, André Morell, Christopher Lee
Sherlock Holmes gets the Gothic treatment in this mix of mystery and supernatural horror from Britain’s Hammer Films. Peter Cushing is perfectly cast as the great detective, the very embodiment of sci...( read more
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DVD Release Date: May 7, 2002
Stats: 147 reviews
Flixster Reviews (147)
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July 10, 2009Call me crazy, but "Hammer Time" has only ever meant; dimming the lights and curling up on the couch for some chessy, creepy horror films.
To this day a low budget, mediocre Hammer film is more enjoyable to me then most of the big budget horror films of today. There is just a...( read more) -
April 24, 2009cushing aint nothing on jeremy brett but altogether it's a decent effort. for a hammer horror though it aint exactly the definition of scary
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September 13, 2007Hammer's version of one the the most oft-filmed stories in cinema is also one of the best. It features artful direction from Terence Fisher (who was also responsible for Hammer's Frankenstein, Dracula and The Mummy) with a great use of colour and light and shadow and a nice sense...( read more)
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October 22, 2009The best Sherlock Holmes movie ever made. Two master actors in Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee show off why they are masters. Great dialogue and chemistry between the two, good writing and a well-adapted screenplay from the best Holmes mystery novel. Top-notch cinema.
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April 15, 2009Theres some good performances in here and not just by Peter Cushing. This was my first Sherlock and Holmes movie I seen.(nn)
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January 26, 2009It's difficult to judge it just as a remake of (better) B.Rathbone's movie.
Hammer has his original mood. This is for sure one of their best movies. Let's see just the beginning of the movie: it's 'grand guignol'. Sir Hugo Baskerville and his fellows aristocrats (very brit...( read more) -
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April 29, 2008Peter Cushing est magnifique en Sherlock Holmes, et Fisher a su créer une ambiance parfaite.
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June 18, 2006Can't understand why it got so many bad reviews. Remember people, it was 1959!
Cushing is the true image of Holmes, if you've seen at least one of the original illustrations. Morell also does a very fine Watson, considering I thought Nigel Bruce's interpretation made the character lean on the naive side
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