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Jack the Ripper's mysterious disappearance fuels cinematic fascination, with various adaptations exploring his identity and legacy. Sherlock Holmes crosses paths with the Ripper in "A Study in Terror," blending fact with fiction and setting the stage for future adaptations. From horror to satire, Jack the Ripper movies offer diverse interpretations, from Hammer Horror's supernatural twist to comedic takes like "The Ruling Class."

One of the most infamous real-life serial killers has been immortalized on the big screen in several Jack the Ripper movies. What makes this particular murderer so popular as a cinematic subject is that he was never caught in real life, and just disappeared one day without a trace - leaving his identity a mystery. Jack the Ripper was a serial killer who terrorized the Whitechapel district of London in 1888. He evaded police despite killing multiple sex workers and performing ghastly mutilations. Over the years, this evil...

A Study in Terror

Blu ray

Mill Creek Entertainment

1966 /1:85 / Street Date April 3, 2018

Starring John Neville, Donald Houston, Anthony Quayle

Cinematography by Desmond Dickinson

Written by Donald Ford, Derek Ford

Directed by James Hill

From master criminals like Professor Moriarty to Sebastian Moran, Sherlock Holmes faced his fair share of danger – but his greatest nemesis may have been the man who created him, Arthur Conan Doyle. Exasperated by his brainchild’s overwhelming popularity, the weary scribe groused, ”I think of slaying Holmes… and winding him up for good and all. He takes my mind from better things.”

Doyle tried to kill off his cash-cow on at least one occasion but the great detective had the last word, maintaining a firm grip on our imagination decades after other seemingly invincible literary characters dropped down the memory hole – perhaps because Holmes is far more mysterious than any mystery he himself might have...

Do you love movies about cute animals? The original pet-lion-in-Africa romp is actually a well balanced nature film about the separation between wild animals and those raised by humans. Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers winningly play the Adamsons, game wardens that dedicate themselves to the well-being of Elsa, the lioness they raise from infancy. Born Free Blu-ray Twilight Time Limited Edition 1966 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 96 min. / Ship Date December 8, 2015 / available through Twilight Time Movies / 29.95 Starring Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers, Geoffrey Keen, Peter Lukoye, Omar Chambati Cinematography Kenneth Talbot Film Editor Don Decon Original Music John Barry Written by Lester Cole from the novel by Joy Adamson Produced by Sam Jaffe, Paul B. Radin Directed by James Hill

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

Savant normally becomes sullen and anti-social around overly committed animal lovers, I suppose because I think the world gets a little out of balance when people seriously consider their domestic...

New posters featuring the main three characters from the psychological horror film, Sun Choke (which recently made its world premiere at the Stanley Film Festival), are featured in our latest round-up. We also have release details and cover art for One Way Static Records' upcoming vinyl soundtrack release for Mark of the Devil and its sequel, as well as a new poster for the upcoming prison-set thriller, Vendetta, which is directed by Jen and Sylvia Soska (See No Evil 2, American Mary).

Sun Choke: Written and directed by Ben Cresciman, Sun Choke stars Sarah Hagan, Sara Malakul Lane, Barbara Crampton, William Nicol, Evan Jones, Joe Nieves, and Jim Boeven.

Synopsis: "Janie’s just trying to get well. As she recovers from a violent psychotic break, she’s subjected each day to a bizarre holistic health and wellness regimen designed, and enforced, by her lifelong nanny and caretaker. She begins...

Discarded plots, quotes from canon, Martin Freeman's hatred of Watson's moustache... Here's a long list of Sherlock series 3 trivia...

Released this month, the collector’s edition Sherlock series 3 DVDs are crammed with nerd succour, from the episodes one and three commentaries by Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat, Sue Vertue and Una Stubbs, to behind-the-scenes featurettes, falling-over and dancing outtakes, footage from episode read-throughs, a deleted scene in which Lars Mikkelsen licks Benedict Cumberbatch, technical special effects gubbins, clips from the only existing television interview with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and - we almost forgot - the series itself.

For Sherlock fans who haven’t yet had the pleasure, we’ve ploughed through all the bonus material on the discs, turning up the odd bit of trivia treasure as we did so. Find out below about Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat's plans for Sherlock to teach Mary the violin, Benedict Cumberbatch...

Although Hammer Films will always be associated with British horror, the studio did have stiff competition. Amicus specialised in the successful horror anthologies and Us counterparts American International Pictures established a permanent UK base in the mid sixties. Other smaller independents took their own bite from the cherry tree of horror with some success, the best known being Tigon Films.

Tigon has received some belated recognition in recent years. Andy Boot’s book on British horror Fragments of Fear devotes a chapter to the company while John Hamilton’s excellent book Beast in the Cellar covers the varied career of Tigon’s charismatic founder Tony Tenser.

Like Hammer’s Sir James Carreras, Tenser was one of the British Film Industry’s great entrepreneurs. Born in London to poor Lithuanian immigrants and a movie fan since childhood, he was an ambitious man with a natural talent for showmanship. Combining shrewd business...

In 2009 the ex Mr Madonna (otherwise known as Guy Ritchie) called upon the unlikely pairing of Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law to bring back to the screen two of crime fiction’s greatest heroes – Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson.

The pair are up there amongst the most filmed literary characters, Holmes has been sticking his nose into other people’s business since the earliest days of the cinema with one of the first versions being a Danish short from 1908 pitting him against his arch nemesis Moriarty and Raffles, the Victorian gentleman thief – now that really would have been a showdown worth seeing.

So, as Ritchie prepares to throw Downey and Law together again, we decided to do some sleuthing ourselves and find six of the pipe smoking detective’s best screen adventures. The results have proved anything but elementary!

6) Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)

By the mid 1980’s there were few...

Best known for playing the title role in Terry Gilliam’s wonderful 1989 fantasy The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen, John Neville was a familiar face. Primarily a stage actor, Neville was artistic director of Canada’s Stratford Shakespeare Festival from 1985 to 1989. He played Sherlock Holmes in the 1966 cult Holmes vs Jack the Ripper film A Study In Terror and had memorable roles in The Fifth Element, Dangerous Minds, and Cronenberg’s Spider. Neville was 86.

From Playbill.com:

John Neville, the respected British-born actor and director who was artistic director of Canada’s Stratford Shakespeare Festival 1985-89, died in Toronto on Nov. 19, surrounded by family, the festival announced Nov. 20. He was 86.

A private funeral will take place immediately. Plans for a memorial will be announced in the New Year.

Late in his career, Mr. Neville, who received the Order of the British Empire in the 1960s, starred in the motion picture “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen,...

With ‘Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows’ set for release this December you have plenty of time to brush up on the great detective and his trusty partner Dr Watson. Only problem is that in his 124 year history, Holmes is one of, if not ‘the’, most portrayed fictional character of all time – so where to start?

Luckily you readers I have compiled a list of the 10 must see Sherlock Holmes Interpretations.

10. Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)

I’ll start with this underrated and often overlooked entry from executive producer Steven Spielberg and writer Chris Columbus (who went on to direct ‘Home Alone’ and the first two ‘Harry Potter’ pictures). This original adventure which re-imagines Holmes and Watson as teenagers who meet at boarding school and team up to solve a mystery involving a spate of murders around London.

Intended to kick off a franchise, this movie, while not based on any of Doyle’s stories,...

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment announced that Warner Archive Collection, Warner’s online on-demand distribution arm, will offer select catalog titles from Sphe’s “Screen Classics By Request.”www.warnerarchive.com will feature approximately 150 manufactured-on-demand titles from the Columbia Pictures film library. Fan favorites among these films include Genghis Khan, A Song To Remember and A Study In Terror.The joint announcement was made by Warner Bros. Digital Distribution president Thomas ...

On April 13, Warner Bros. and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment announced that the Warner Archive Collection (Wac), Warner’s online on-demand distribution arm, will offer select catalog titles from Sony’s “Classics By Request” line. Phe’s “Screen Classics By Request.” Beginning that day, www.warnerarchive.com will feature approximately 150 manufactured-on-demand titles from the Columbia Pictures film library, including such fan favorites as Genghis Khan, A Song To Remember and A Study In Terror.

The 1965 Sherlock Holmes adventure A Study in Terror will be available through the Warner Archive Collection.

The Warner Archive Collection was established in March 2009 as the first online, manufacturing on-demand service to offer rare film and TV titles from their library. In its two years of existence, Wac has released nearly 1,000 previously unavailable feature films, shorts and TV productions, rangin from Ken Russell’s 1971 musical comedy The Boyfriend to the 1968 cult sci-fi horror cult entry The Green Slime.

By Sean O’Connell

Hollywoodnews.com: Have you ever wanted to raid a studio’s vault and order the movies you want on DVD, instead of waiting for execs to decide which titles they were going to release? Well, we’re a little closer to that dream becoming a reality.

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment just opened the Columbia vault, offering to consumers a selection of films never before released on DVD. The studio’s new program, dubbed “Screen Classics by Request,” lets you purchase authentic, high-quality DVDs of more than 100 classic movie titles covering a 75-year span from the Columbia Film Library. Those who visit www.Columbia-Classics.com make their selection and, upon purchase, receive a made-to-order DVD showcased with original theatrical art, when available. It’s like custom-ordering the DVD you want … when you want it.

Additional titles will be made available monthly through the Web site, and will retail at $19.94, plus shipping.

Sherlock Holmes purists who were not enamored with Robert Downey Jr.'s recent take on the Great Detective may want to thank A&E for cashing in on Hollywood's Christmas blockbuster. In The Sherlock Holmes Collection on DVD the American cable and satellite network has resurrected a bygone Holmes in the form of Peter Cushing. The great British actor, who played Van Helsing in Hammer's horror films in the 1970s and Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars Episode IV, played Holmes in a 1960s BBC television series. Not much of that show survives but what does is a welcome addition to the detective's DVD canon.

Want to know more? The BBC aired the Cushing series in 1968 under the title Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. The show was a continuation of sorts of another series of adaptations the network had aired three years earlier. That starred Douglas Wilmer as...

by Alan Kistler

The new film "Sherlock Holmes," starring Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law, has been entertaining many. And today, January 6th, is Holmes' actual birthday (as established in the original books).

Even after his creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stopped writing fiction, Sherlock Holmes continued to appear in new stories for several decades, in all sorts of media. And sometimes he's been teamed up with other famous characters, fictional creations with their own worlds and fans. Here are some of the wilder crossovers featuring England's greatest detective.

Sherlock Holmes v. Dracula

The title may seem silly, but "Sherlock Holmes Vs Dracula" by Loren D. Estleman is a fantastic story that takes place parallel to the original "Dracula" novel by Bram Stoker. Remember how Stoker's book was made up of journal entries, letters and newspaper articles? Here, we see Holmes and Watson investigating those same news stories, leading them...

It's Christmas Day and you can only open presents for so long. So turn on that tube: If you're not making it to the cinema to see Robert Downey Jr. you can still have "Holmes for the Holidays" thanks to TCM. From 8 p.m. to 6 a.m., my dear Watson, are: The Hound of The Baskervilles (1939), The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes' Fatal Hour, The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959), and A Study in Terror. Mothers and daughters can unite for Tlc's Say Yes to the Dress marathon -- don't forget to vote...

Major faux pas: the marketing geniuses promoting A Study in Terror created a campy ad campaign designed to capitalize on Batmania. In fact, the film is a sober and very effectively made Sherlock Holmes thriller.

How do you react to the fact that Turner Classic Movies (North America) will be running back-to-back Sherlock Holmes films from 8:00 Pm on Friday December 25 through much of the following day? Elementary, my dear movie fan - you become a couch potato. TCM will be including all the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce Holmes features, the Hammer version of The Hound of the Baskervilles with Cushing and Lee,  as well as Billy Wilder's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes and - wait for it!- the 1966 film A Study in Terror that pits Holmes and Watson against Jack the Ripper. This worthwhile effort has never been released on DVD. ...

Dust And Shadow by Lyndsay Faye (Simon & Schuster, hc, 325 pp, $25)

A Great Detective pastiche needs only six words to hook me: “Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack the Ripper.”

If that’s the premise, I’m ready to read. So, when a pal told me about this latest meeting betwixt detective hero and enigmatic killer, I had to pick it up and read it Asap last Saturday—even though it came out in April.

First off, I firmly believe that Sherlock Holmes is a mystery icon who also belongs to the Sf & fantasy genre, although most of his exploits (as recorded by Dr. John Watson and literary agent Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) emphasize the realistic. Nonetheless in the pastiches written by the legions who followed Conan Doyle, Holmes has fought the Martians of H.G. Wells’ War Of The Worlds, sailed on (and survived) the Titanic and faced Count Dracula more than once.