The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire (2002) (TV)

Director:

Rodney Gibbons

Writers:

Arthur Conan Doyle (characters)
Rodney Gibbons (written by)

Release Date:

27 October 2002 (USA)

Genre:

Crime | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of death rumoured to be caused by a vampire. |

Plot Keywords:

Sherlock Holmes | Vampire | Monastery | Murder | Crypt

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

Matt Frewer	...	Sherlock Holmes
Kenneth Welsh	...	Dr. Watson
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Maria Bertrand	...	Woman in Cape
Julian Casey	...	Inspector Lestrade
Norris Domingue	...	Brother Sinclair
Isabel Dos Santos	...	Signora de la Rosa
John Dunn-Hill	...	Lamplighter
Neville Edwards	...	Dr. Chagas
Kathleen Fee	...	Mme Karavsky
Jane Gilchrist	...	Sister Mardaret
Jere Gillis	...	The Thing
Danny Blanco Hall	...	Hector de la Rosa
Cary Lawrence	...	Sister Helen
Shawn Lawrence	...	Brother Marstoke
Kathleen McAuliffe	...	Mrs. Hudson
Joel Miller	...	Brother Caulder
Michel Perron	...	Inspector Attley Jones
Philip Pretten	...	Policeman #1
Tom Rack	...	Brother Abel
Terry Simpson	...	Workman
Emma Stevens	...	Mrs. Duncan
Matthew Tiffin	...	Brother John

Directed by
Rodney Gibbons

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Arthur Conan Doyle		characters
Rodney Gibbons		written by

Produced by
Pedro Gandol	....	associate producer
Steven Hewitt	....	executive producer
Irene Litinsky	....	producer
Michael Prupas	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Marc Ouellette

Cinematography by
Serge Ladouceur

Film Editing by
Vidal Béïque

Casting by
Lucie Robitaille

Art Direction by
Emmanuel Frechette

Set Decoration by
Diane Gauthier
Marie-Claude Gosselin
Josée Pilon

Makeup Department
Johanne Hansen	....	hair stylist
Tomoko Hidaka	....	makeup artist
Bob Pritchett	....	key hair stylist
Melissa Purino	....	key makeup artist

Production Management
Christiane Charpentier	....	assistant unit manager
Jean-Yves Dolbec	....	production manager
Pierre Lapointe	....	unit manager
Evan Tussman	....	post-production supervisor

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Anna Ferenczi	....	third assistant director trainee
Pedro Gandol	....	first assistant director
Laurence Mercier	....	third assistant director
Dandy Thibaudeau	....	second assistant director

Art Department
Mario Barriere	....	scenic technician
Michel Bousquet	....	carpenter
Félix Bélanger	....	head carpenter
Jean Chassé	....	props buyer
Jean Desroches	....	scenic technician
Charles Dugas	....	assistant property master
Charles Dunlop	....	set designer
Nicolas Fering	....	scenic technician
André Fiset	....	key carpenter
Jean Fiset	....	carpenter
Carrie Foster	....	art department coordinator
François Gagnon	....	carpenter
Serge Gaudreau	....	carpenter
Guy Gauthier	....	assistant set decorator
Julien Geoffroy	....	set designer
Xavier Georges	....	scenic technician
Erik Gosselin	....	special creative props
Julie Gosselin	....	assistant set decorator
Ronny Gosselin	....	model maker
Eric Guindon	....	carpenter
Raynald Langelier	....	set designer
Claude Leclair	....	assistant set decorator
Guillaume Lord	....	assistant art director
Stephan McKenzie	....	scenic technician
Gilbert Mercier	....	scenic technician
Ricardo Montemiglio	....	assistant property master
Julie Montplaisir	....	assistant art department coordinator
Matthew Poirier	....	assistant art director
André Ratelle	....	property master
Richard Shean	....	set designer
Eric Vasseur	....	head scenic painter
Lucie Fournier	....	head sculptor: art department (uncredited)

Sound Department
Richard Betanzos	....	sound re-recording mixer
Hugo Callegari	....	boom operator
Scott Donald	....	adr editor
Scott Donald	....	supervising dialogue editor
Alexis Duceppe	....	sound trainee
Véronique Gabillaud	....	sound mixer
David Gertsman	....	sound effects editor
Michael Gurman	....	sound effects editor
Christiane Hubert	....	foley assistant
Paul Hubert	....	foley artist
Eric Med Lagacé	....	foley recordist
France Leduc	....	dialogue editor
Stan Sakellaropoulos	....	dialogue editor
Glenn Tussman	....	supervising sound editor

Special Effects by
Louis Craig	....	special effects supervisor
Thierry Craig	....	special effects technician
André Laforest	....	special effects technician
Pierre 'Bill' Rivard	....	special effects coordinator (as Pierre Rivard)
Steve Simard	....	special effects technician
Martin Williams	....	special effects technician
Eric Thivierge	....	animatronic creature effects (uncredited)

Visual Effects by
Balin Hewitt	....	visual effects supervisor
Mario Rachiele	....	visual effects supervisor

Stunts
Bernard Landry	....	stunt driver
Jonathan Léger-Raymond	....	stunt double: Holmes
David McKeown	....	stunt coordinator (as Dave McKeown)

Camera and Electrical Department
Yves Arseneau	....	electrician
Philippe Bossé	....	set photographer
Jerome Bouchard	....	electrician
Stéphane Caron	....	camera trainee
Daniel Chrétien Jr.	....	electrician
Yves Drapeau	....	focus puller
Eames Gagnon	....	rigging gaffer
Claude Gervais	....	grip
Darren Giblin	....	video assist operator
Alain Jolicoeur	....	generator operator
Denis Lamothe	....	best boy
Jan Mark Lapointe	....	key grip
François Legris	....	extra electrician
Nicolas Mignot	....	grip
Daniel Prévost	....	grip
Pierre Rancourt	....	gaffer
Dominique Ricard	....	camera operator: "a" camera
Nicole Rivelli	....	still photographer
Alain Rousseau	....	clapper loader
Claude Sauvageau	....	best boy

Casting Department
Isabelle Ménard	....	extras casting

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Julie Amyot	....	assistant wardrobe mistress: extras
Marie Bellemare	....	assistant wardrobe mistress: extras
Suzie Coutu	....	key extras dresser
Jacinthe Demers	....	extras wardrobe mistress
Christine Gribbin	....	key dresser
Stéphane LaRoche	....	wardrobe coordinator (as Stéphane Laroche)
Françoise Lecours	....	wardrobe mistress
Véronique Marchessault	....	wardrobe runner
Josée Philibert	....	dresser
Jacqueline Rousseau	....	assistant wardrobe
Marie-Pierre Savaria	....	assistant extras dresser

Editorial Department
Elissa Lewis	....	post-production coordinator
Serge Robert	....	color timer
Stéphane Rostin-Magnin	....	off-line assistant editor

Transportation Department
Bertrand Calmeau	....	driver
Bernard Desormeau	....	office driver
Louis Legault	....	driver
Jean-Pierre Majeau	....	driver
Jose Uria	....	transportation coordinator (as José Uria)

Other crew
Stephanie Aubin	....	assistant accountant
Annick Barbery	....	assistant unit publicist
Jesabelle Boileau	....	production assistant
Marco Boucher	....	craft service
Patrice Bujold	....	set production assistant
Marie-France Caron	....	assistant location manager
Suzanne De Carufel	....	location manager
Harvey Diamond	....	stand-in: Dr. Watson
Émilie Dussault	....	assistant to executive producer
André Déry	....	production assistant
Lorri Faughnan	....	business affairs
Hondo Fleming	....	stand-in: Dr Chagas
Linda Fournier	....	assistant craft service
Marjorie Hamel	....	production assistant
Sylvain Hardy	....	dolly pusher
France Lachapelle	....	script supervisor
Lise Lalonde	....	assistant to executive producer
Suzanne Laverdure	....	assistant location manager
Danielle Lavoie	....	production coordinator
Mélanie Lavoie	....	production secretary
François Lessard	....	off-line coordinator
Rachel Maness	....	assistant accountant
Bruce Miller	....	production accountant
Daniel Ménard	....	medic
Brenda Nixon	....	first assistant accountant
Julie O'Bonsawin	....	script trainee
Betty Palik	....	unit publicist
François Paquette	....	stand-in: Caulder
Christian Pépin	....	production assistant
Martin Roy	....	production assistant
Sacha Sojic	....	stand-in: Brother Abel
Julie-Anne Szabo	....	receptionist
Michel Valliéres	....	stand-in: Sherlock Holmes
Marin Valois	....	set runner
Vincent Wener	....	medic
Jeremy Zafran	....	stand-in: Lestrade
Harvey Drouelle	....	production assistant (uncredited)

Distributors

• Elephant Films (2003) (France) (all media)

Special Effects

• Intrigue (special effects)

Also Known As:

Runtime:

Netherlands:90 min | USA:120 min (including commercials)

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

UK:PG

Movie Connections:

Follows The Sign of Four (2001) (TV)

cartoon Holmes

Matt Frewer's four films for Hallmark television are never likely to budge memories of the series made for Granada in the 1980s and 1990s; however, they are meant to appeal to a young audience and in this respect, they probably succeed.

Frewer is saddled with a comedy deerstalker, the worst British accent since Robert Duvall played Watson in 'The Seven-Per-Cent Solution', and an annoying range of tics, smirks and general non-Holmes type behaviour. But he does have a rather good Watson in Kenneth Welsh who is a more serious version of Nigel Bruce from the 1940s Holmes films, so there are some compensations.

The story here is nothing to do with Conan Doyle's 'The Sussex Vampyre'; it concerns a group of monks who are slowly being killed by what appears to be a vampire bat - each are found slumped and cold and bleeding from two wounds to the neck. Is there something supernatural going on, or, as Holmes believes, it this an inside job? The filming is actually not that bad - Canada passes for Victorian England, and set dressing isn't that inaccurate. With a better actor in the lead, these could be worthy additions to the screen Holmes. It's just that Frewer's version doesn't work - unless you see him as a kind of cartoon, comedy, superhero Holmes.

If you are a Holmes completist, then of course you will want to watch these. But otherwise, you won't miss anything by staying away.