Lor​d Henry Blackwood is the main antagonist in the 2009 film, Sherlock Holmes. Blackwood is a cultist and performs several human sacrifices before being brought to justice. He wishes to see Sherlock Holmes in prison where he warns the famous detective of three more deaths that will change the nation. He is then hanged and pronounced dead by Dr John Watson. The following night he supposedly bursts out of his tomb and runs across the cemetery, leaving the night guard catatonic. In the following week, three important figures are murdered as Holmes struggles to make sense of it all.