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Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers adaption of a graphic novel that posits the Ripper's true identity.
“More than the legend will survive.”
Top Cast
Johnny Depp
Fred Abberline
Heather Graham
Mary Kelly
Ian Holm
Sir William Gull
Robbie Coltrane
Peter Godley
Ian Richardson
Sir Charles Warren
Jason Flemyng
Netley
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Rating
6.7/ 10
Release Date
2001-02-08
Runtime
2h 2m
Genres
HorrorMysteryThriller
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User Reviews (4)
Dark Jedi
7/10
•10/14/2014I cannot say that I am an outright fan of old era British crime stories but I do fancy them now and then. This one is a rather dark, grim and gloomy story perfectly suitable as a evening movie at this time of the year when darkness already starts to ...
talisencrw
8/10
•8/16/2016I went into this having only seen 'The Book of Eli' by these directors, The Hughes Brothers. I quite liked that film, although I did feel their vivacious stylizations interfered with the telling of the story. Seeing this earlier film of theirs confir...
Wuchak
7/10
•5/15/2018From Alan Moore, the Hughes brothers and Johnny Depp
RELEASED IN 2001 and directed by the Hughes brothers, "From Hell" details the Jack the Ripper slayings in the slummy Whitechapel district of London in autumn, 1888. Johnny Depp plays an opium-ad...
Kamurai
8/10
•2/9/2021Great watch, would watch again, and can recommend.
If you're accepting or even intrigued by the case of Jack the Ripper, then this should be a great murder mystery for you.
Johnny Depp, opinions aside, does confused, drug-addicted, and detectiv...