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Jeremy Thomas @jthomas411mania@horrorhub.club
I will die on the hill that, with all due respect to Basil Rathbone & Benedict Cumberbatch, Peter Cushing is the greatest Sherlock Holmes of all-time. My ★★★★ review of The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) on Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/8TVHvT #SherlockHolmes #Hammer #Letterboxd
boxd.itA ★★★★ review of The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)Hammer may be known mostly for their horror, but they also produced a number of fine films in other genres. It’s hard to deny that there is some of the studio’s horror inclinations creeping into The Hound of the Baskervilles, which is entirely unsurprising considering you have the director, lead stars, cinematographer, and composer of both The Horror of Dracula and The Curse of Frankenstein here. All that said, despite some obvious deviations from the novel this adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes story does avoid the overt gothic horror of those other two films and leans on its mystery and