The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories have never lacked for adaptations, with The Hound of the Baskervilles—novel number three out of four featuring the famed detective and his Boswell—being among the most tempting to tackle.
Silent Night, Bloody Night
No one who made 1972’s Silent Night, Bloody Night had much of a clue what the story was supposed to be, which sounds like a massive impediment, but it’s all good here in what is tantamount to a progression of darkening images and moods spun around the bare bones of an early Christmas slasher with haunted-house elements.