Sherlock - the bride of horror
| Episode of the Sherlock series | |
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| title | The bride of horror |
| Original title | The Abominable Bride |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Season none, episode special episode ( list ) |
| First broadcast | January 1, 2016 (UK) on BBC |
| German-language first broadcast |
March 28, 2016 (DE) on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Douglas Mackinnon |
| script |
Mark Gatiss Steven Moffat |
| production | Sue Vertue |
| music |
David Arnold Michael Price |
| camera | Suzie Lavelle |
| cut | Andrew McClelland |
| occupation | |
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| synchronization | |
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► Main article: Synchronization | |
The Bride of Horror (Original title: The Abominable Bride ) is a special episode of the British television series Sherlock , which takes place between the third and fourth season of the series. The first broadcast was on January 1st, 2016 on the BBC , the German-language premiere took place on March 28th, 2016 on Das Erste . For the first time, an episode of the series takes place at the time of the original stories. However, some scenes tie in with the end of the third season .
action
The story begins in Victorian London , where Sherlock and Watson of Lestrade are confronted with a difficult case. A woman named Emelia Ricoletti shot at passers-by and then committed suicide. That same evening, Emelia appears to her husband in ghostly form and shoots him. Fascinated by the question of how Emelia survived her supposed suicide, Sherlock takes on the case. In the morgue, Dr. Hooper (Molly Hooper disguised as a man) informed him that the woman who killed herself could be identified by Mr. Ricoletti as Emelia Ricoletti just a few seconds before his death. Because Sherlock doesn't want to believe the ghost story, he loses interest in the case. When the bride murders more people, however, he concludes that the murderers must be free riders.
A few months later, Sherlock's brother Mycroft tells him about another case. Sir Eustace Carmichael received an envelope containing five orange pits, a symbol of threat known from the United States. Eustace reacts very uncooperatively to Sherlock's questions and describes his wife, Lady Carmichael, as "hysterical". The following night, Sherlock and Watson hide on his estate to catch the supposed ghost of Emelia Ricoletti in the act. The bride appears and disappears before them through the walls. Immediately afterwards, a sound of glass breaking can be heard. Suddenly, Sherlock and Watson hear Sir Eustace Carmichael's screams. Sherlock finds the man he wanted to protect shortly afterwards stabbed to death. At the time, Watson was guarding the window through which he and Holmes entered and which was the only one in the house that was not locked. Emelia startles the doctor and disappears through the window.
Detective Inspector Lestrade shows Sherlock a message on the dagger with which Sir Carmichael was murdered. Sherlock is puzzled because when he examined the body a few minutes earlier, there was still no message on the dagger. The note reads: “Did you miss me?” The modern Moriarty used the same phrase on his surprising return. After Holmes insisted that the solution of the case was so simple that even Lestrade was able to solve it, he meditated for several days on Baker Street. Moriarty appears to him and teases Sherlock to solve the riddle of how Emelia Ricoletti shot herself and still appeared to her husband that evening. Then Moriarty also shoots himself without being killed.
Sherlock wakes up on a landing plane and finds himself in the present. Mycroft, John, and Mary come aboard and Sherlock confesses to them that he used drugs to deal with the unsolved Emelia Ricoletti case in his memory palace so that he can understand the circumstances surrounding Moriarty's death in the present. He then ignores the warnings from Mycroft and Watson and re-enters his memory palace.
Back in the past, John wakes him up from his delusion, which seems to have been triggered by a self- injected cocaine solution. Sherlock receives a telegram from Mary stating that she has tracked down those involved in the murders in a church. When Sherlock and Watson meet Mary, they discover a secret group in the church, whose members are dressed like the followers of the Ku Klux Klan . But suffragettes are hidden under the masks . After exposing the women's rights activists, Holmes explains the solution to the case.
Accordingly, Emelia only faked her suicide in order to kill her husband that evening in the role of the avenging bride. The consumptive woman was later killed by a head shot at her own request. The duplicate of her corpse was then replaced with her actual corpse, which could then be clearly identified as Emelia Ricoletti. Since then, the bride's identity has been used by the Order of Women to murder men who wronged them in the guise of Ricoletti's ghost. Sherlock suspects that Lady Carmichael is also a member of the ward and killed her husband himself. He therefore accuses a veiled bride opposite him, assuming that it is Lady Carmichael. But to his surprise, it's Moriarty.
Sherlock now believes in the present waking, diminishes as the effect of drugs, and insists on Emelias corpse exhumed . As he digs for the coffin, he hears Emelia's corpse whispering over and over: "Don't forget me". Still trapped in his memory palace by the influence of drugs, he is now jumping back in time, where he is attacked by Moriarty on a ledge next to the Swiss Reichenbach Falls . Moriarty reveals to Holmes that he is still in his memory palace. The two men fight, and Moriarty gains the upper hand, but John appears and points a gun at Moriarty. John rushes Moriarty down the waterfall and asks Sherlock to come back into the present with him. Sherlock decides to jump over the ledge as well to free himself from his memory palace.
Sherlock wakes up on the plane. After John and Sherlock leave the plane, Mycroft opens his notebook and reads the word "Red Beard" in it. Meanwhile, Sherlock has realized through his "dream" that Moriarty is dead, but must have planned events that are to occur after his death. The episode ends with Sherlock in the past, where he describes his vision of an airplane and a phone to the skeptical John; then he looks out the window at the present day Baker Street.
production
Screenwriters Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat had the idea for this special episode even before the third season was broadcast. They wanted to show "how the series would have been if [they] had filmed it authentically".
Tyntesfield House in Wraxall , North Somerset , was the setting for Carmichael's estate and Watson's London apartment. Other locations were in Bath , where the footage in the labyrinth was made in the Longleat estate, which is now used as a safari park; in the crypt of Gloucester Cathedral, where the Suffragette order met in the film; as well as at Bristol . The scenes at the Diogenes Club where Holmes meets his brother Mycroft were filmed in a building on London's Carlton House Terrace.
Broadcasting and DVD releases
The special aired on both BBC One and PBS on the evening of January 1, 2016 . In England the episode was seen by 8.41 million viewers on the day of its appearance. In October 2015, Das Erste announced via Twitter that it would also broadcast the special in Germany on the same day. However, the ARD had to revise the announcement the following day.
In different countries around the world, such as B. in England and the Netherlands, the special episode was shown in selected cinemas. In Germany, however, it was only shown on television, as ARD holds the rights for German broadcasting. It was broadcast on Easter Monday, March 28, 2016. With 3.01 million viewers, the episode achieved a market share of 10.8% in the total audience; it was more successful with younger viewers with a 13.6% market share. The broadcast on the Austrian public broadcaster ORF eins began twenty minutes later than on ARD .
The episode was released on January 11, 2016 as a 2-disc set on both DVD and Blu-ray with original English sound. On March 29, 2016, the German version was also released on DVD and Blu-ray.
Canon references
- The Abominable Bride is based on a quote from the story The Musgrave Ritual , in which Holmes mentions “Ricoletti with the clubfoot and his abominable wife”.
- The entire element of the suffragette movement was taken from The Golden Pince-nez .
- The Carmichael case contains elements from the short story The Five Orange Pits .
- The scene at the waterfall is reminiscent of the fight between Holmes and Moriarty at the Reichenbachfall, which is told in The Last Problem .
- At the beginning of the film, getting to know Holmes and Watson is portrayed as a nod to A Study in Scarlet . The first meeting of the protagonists was already discussed in the first Sherlock episode.
- In the sign of the four there is also a discussion between Watson and Holmes about his drug use. In the original it's morphine and cocaine, while here is a list of various preparations that Sherlock has to make for Mycroft.
Award
At the Primetime Emmy Awards 2016 , the film was named Best TV Film.
Web links
- Information from ARD on the Sherlock special ( Memento from March 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- BBC page on The Abominable Bride
- Sherlock - The bride of horror in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sherlock: The Bride of Horror at Easter in the First. In: Serienjunkies.de . January 22, 2016, accessed January 23, 2016 .
- ↑ "Sherlock Holmes is the most filmed character in all of literature". The first , accessed March 29, 2016 .
- ↑ "Sherlock Holmes is not just clever, he is eccentric". The first, accessed March 29, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Revealed: How Sherlock's The Abominable Bride took over Tyntesfield near Bristol. (No longer available online.) Western Daily Press, December 31, 2015, archived from the original on March 29, 2016 ; accessed on March 29, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Booklet with background information in the Blu-Ray version
- ↑ IMDB Filming Locations
- ↑ Sherlock special: When and where to watch The Abominable Bride episode online. In: International Business Times . December 31, 2015, accessed January 18, 2016 .
- ↑ Sherlock - special episode comes to the cinema & new trailer. In: Moviepilot . October 27, 2015, accessed January 18, 2016 .
- ↑ «Tatort» and «Sherlock»: Specials miss a special quota kick. Quotemeter.de , March 29, 2016, accessed on March 29, 2016 .
- ↑ What does the title The Abominable Bride tell us about the Sherlock special? Radio Times, October 24, 2015, accessed March 29, 2016 .
