Sherlock: Case of Evil (2002)
Directed by Graham Theakston
Early in his crime-solving career, Sherlock Holmes attempts to prevent Moriarty from cornering the heroin market.
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Their argument: Henry Cavill's Sherlock showing emotion — or respecting women even — in the film Enola Holmes is a character trait he only developed in Doyle's later stories, which are not in the public domain and thus still fall under copyright law.
On the other hand, Brown (who could pass for “Sherlock” star Benedict Cumberbatch’s sister) brings some of the awkwardness we traditionally associate with the iconic detective to her role: Enola was never indoctrinated by her mother in the ways of polite society, and as such, she’s meant to represent female intellect in its natural, unrepressed state.
And this one imagines the consequences of Sherlock and Mycroft having an estranged teenage sister, Enola (Millie Bobby Brown), who’s ahead of her time when it comes to the fairer sex’s treatment in Victorian England…
In the last decade alone, three contemporary takes on Holmes have inspired popular TV shows ("Sherlock," "Elementary," and "House").
Indeed, more than a few of Sherlock Holmes’s identifying features – an “elementary” quote, that deerstalker hat – actually originated in stage and film adaptations.
Instead of constantly reminding “Sherlock” fans of his Emmy-winning role as the Arthur Conan Doyle’s master of deduction, Cumberbatch has broken his own code of how to distinguish this particular eccentric genius as a completely separate but yet no less compelling entity.
Much as the BBC's Sherlock retained the spirit of classic Conan Doyle while pointedly teaching Holmes how to text, The Pact is a traditional horror film littered with contemporary calibrations.