The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire

2002

Mystery / Thriller

4
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 41%
IMDb Rating 6.0/10 10 1236 1.2K

victorian england serial killer whitechapel

Director

Rodney Gibbons Photo
Rodney Gibbons

Top cast

Kenneth Welsh Photo
Kenneth Welsh as Dr. Watson
John Dunn-Hill Photo
John Dunn-Hill as Lamplighter
Julian Casey Photo
Julian Casey as Inspector Lestrade
Maria Bertrand Photo
Maria Bertrand as Woman in Cape
720p.WEB
814.59 MB
900*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
30 fps
1 hr 28 min
Seeds 4

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Sleepin_Dragon 6 / 10

A watchable film.

It's hard not to watch this and compare it with Jeremy Brett's The Last Vampyre, and once again, as with all of Matt Frewer's Sherlock Holmes films, it's a mix of good and bad.Let's start with the good, the story, I liked it, I'm not a huge fan of vampires in general, but this works rather well. I like the visuals, it looks authentic enough, it's atmospheric, it looks murky, and lacks some of the usual polish you get in such productions.The acting, is a little patchy it's fair to say, some of the cast are a little hammy, Frewer though I did enjoy, I liked his accent, I liked his quirkiness, he had some presence.On the debit side, it felt a little clunky at parts, some of the dialogue is a little over the top. I mentioned earlier that you shouldn't compare, the trouble is when you do compare this with Brett's, it's just not in the same league.It's watchable, 6/10.
Reviewed by CinemaSerf 6 / 10

The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire

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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