Word: killers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film is so heavy-handed that you can almost see Clark's cinematic brain at work. First you take Jack the Ripper, a colorful killer with his gory methods, and popular with the masses as well. Jack does his work at the right place and in the right time, too, Victorian England--perfect. When Holmes meets Jack the Ripper, the temptation to indulge in gruesome special effects overwhelms the directors. No matter that the story line, a mish-mash of all the Jack the Ripper identity theories, is so complex and capricious as to make Conan Doyle's brand...
CLARK'S B-MOVIE ORIGINS are obvious in this film. His psycho-killer Black Christmas clearly inspired the lurid murder scenes in Murder By Decree. And while one expects a little blood and weird goings-on in Sherlock Holmes' pursuit of criminals, such attention to violent detail is unnecessary...
...other hand, the end could come from mutated praying mantises, killer bees, flying saucers, aerosol cans, a shortage of STP, the retirement of Charlton Heston...
...once was kissed by the "huge, slobbery, slimy tongue" of Shamu the killer whale on a childhood visit to Sea World...
...group of merchants whose businesses suffer because shoppers fear to walk the Whitechapel streets. But as the sleuth reveals a vast coverup, he shows that nothing is as it seems. The shopkeepers are a group of radical anarchists, Jack is not a sex-crazed mutilator but a hired killer, and the master plotters are part of a conspiracy to expunge all those who know the identity of Queen Victoria's il legitimate grandchild...