This is an absolutely brilliant movie. It manages to be both funny and actually kind of brutal at the same time and it has a great premise. As usual, Joss is at his best when takes clichés and turns them on their head and horror is so obviously a genre he knows and loves.

The movie also feels like an episode of one of Joss Whedon’s shows but I will not say which. Honestly, this is a move that you should know as little as possibly about when you watch it.

Go watch it! All the love!

I find that this move got much better when I invented new names for the characters and stopped trying to think about them as Holmes and Watson. Because seriously, this has very little to with the original characters. It had some very nice effects and Jude Law and Robert Downey Jr are lovely but that is about it. I have this crazy idea that a Sherlock Holmes movie should involve something like, you know, a lot of mysteries and deduction. Luckily, the writers cleverly disguised the lack of anything mysterious or deductive with a lot of explosions. Yay.

A really, really good horror movie, and that is not the easiest thing to find these days.