From Hell (DVD)

...take a look..... From Hell is a re-examination of the infamous and unsolved Jack the Ripper murders in Whitechapel. To this day, he remains the most notorious and enigmatic serial killer in history. Over 100 years after he committed five heinous, ritualistic murders during a ten week span in the Autumn of 1888, creating a frenzied atmosphere of gossip, rumour and terror, our continued fascination with him should not be that surprising when you consider ...
...the Ripper story that stemmed from the climate of 1880's East London. The city's vast disparity of wealth produced masses of poor and destitute people, many of whom congregated in the area which the murders took place. The dirty seamy slum was a haven for drug use, prostitution, alcoholism and random street crime. As with most of their previous inner-city dramas, and in particular their 1993 debut, Menace11 Society, this was a ghetto story. It concerns ...

Praski 08.03.2009 · Read full review
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...Jack. The title is coined from a letter sent to George Lusk Head of the Mile End Vigilance Committee supposedly sent by Jack the Ripper himself in October 1888. Where the writer’s address would usually be ‘From Hell’ had been written instead. I went to watch this film when it was released in 2001 because I have a great deal of interest in Victorian London, in Jack the Ripper and in Johnny Depp. The film stars Johnny Depp as the brilliant Inspector ...
...been responsible for exhorting money from prostitutes. However Abberline quickly realises that although the Nickels gang was probably responsible for Martha’s killing with the far more brutal deaths of Mary Ann Nichols and Annie Chapman they are looking at a different league of killer. Meanwhile Mary Kelly (Heather Graham) and her remaining friends, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes, are running scared. Abberline befriends the young Mary and ...

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From Hell is a 2001 film directed by The Hughes Brothers. Based on a similarly named graphic novel it is about the Jack the Ripper story from the point of view of the investigating detective Abberline played by Johnny Depp. The film starts in the seedy White Chapel area of London (I don't know much about London but I do know Whitechapel was one of the crappy brown properties in monopoly.) A small group of prostitute friends are meeting with an old ...
...playing another policeman. A girl from the group of friends has been brutally murdered. Abberline usually has visions about such occurrences but he says it was not this one that he foresaw but another. One by one the girls are picked off. A man in a fine coach always approaches them and lures them in with grapes, then leaves them horribly mutilated and lacking certain organs. Abberline along the way enlists the help of the royal physician played ...

Phelthew 06.09.2008 · Read full review
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Incredibly enough, From Hell was the first movie that I had ever seen about the notorious killer Jack The Ripper. A number of films have been made over the years, but I’d somehow managed to miss them all, and so I had no real prior knowledge of the story behind the myth. I’d read mixed reviews of the film, both here and on other sites, but I’d be a liar if I said I wasn’t intrigued by the whole story and looked forward to ...
...been led to believe that From Hell was very much a new take on a familiar story and for some reason had also been under the impression that the film had supernatural undertones, but this was not the case. The finished product was really a conventional piece of old-fashioned story telling albeit a very well made one. There was a lot that I liked about this film- as well as a lot that I wasn’t so keen on. The most memorable thing about the film ...

LostWitness 06.07.2002 · Read full review
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From Hell was a film I wasn’t expecting too much from. It was a film that I laid down to watch in bed last night not all that tired, but I didn’t think I would make it through 2 hours of movie and thought I would be watching the other half tonight. However, I finished it all last night, eyes fixed to the screen! From Hell is a film which to me, has a strong resemblance to Sleepy Hollow, not just because both have Johnny Depp playing the ...
...when he killed. From Hell was directed by Albert and Allen Hughes, responsible for just 4 films, and 3 of them I hadn’t heard of, the only one I had being Menace II Society. However, they gave us a very good film here, one which has got to be taken with the right attitude. With a budget of $35m they bought us a film that we didn’t seem to fussed about. It took $31m in the US and £2.8m over here. That’s not to bad a figure for us ...

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...Campbell. Their graphic novel – From Hell – is now (cue gravel voiced voiceover guy) A MAJOR HOLLYWOOD MOTION PICTURE STARRING JOHNNY DEPP AND HEATHER GRAHAM. Oh – you want to know what theory? Read on. ***YER BASIC PLOT*** 1888. London. Through the filth ridden streets of Whitechapel we roam, witnessing men urinating freely in the street, and “bang-tails” plying their trade to men of all social standings. Meet Mary ...
...didn’t involve a long flight. From what I’ve heard, this compresses some of the book (it would have to, Moore does like his exposition), and gives a more “Hollywood” slant to the proceedings. I presume this means the ending is altered, but again – Southend/Vegas. This is a fairly standard thriller, I’d already had the twist ruined for me (by accident), but really – it won’t take a genius to work out ...

peppersinclaire 08.02.2002 · Read full review
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...reviews, even here on Ciao. From Hell is based somewhat on the events surrounding the late 19th Century serial murderer nicknamed "Jack the Ripper". The appeal of this story is that the case was never solved and numerous speculations and theories have been raised about it. What is known is that 5 prostitutes were murdered in public alleys in the centre of london and were butchered to remove certain organs from them. In each of the murders nothing ...
...I am going to refrain from giving a synopsis because I don't want to spoil the film for you. I did like this film, and I have to say that I do not think that it was a horror film at all, it was much more like a gory whodunnit film. The film is an 18 and it does deserve that rating as it does deal with prostitution and features a couple of sex scenes, with some detail, also more prevalent is violence and blood and guts and some earthy language (I ...

jamez 11.02.2002 · Read full review
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...1888, it’s NOT Crackerjack. Far from it. Whitechapel is a Victorian Sodom and Gomorrah; the streets team with filth, drunks, villains, prostitutes and all manner of darkness and debauchery. We visit upon a group of six prostitutes, including Mary Kelly (Heather Graham), who have formed themselves into a loose collective in an effort to protect themselves from a local small time crook who is running a prostitute protection racket. Amongst the ...
...the baby are forcibly taken from their lodgings and before you can say Jack the Ripper, the remaining friends start turning up dead and horribly mutilated. On the scene of the crime comes Inspector Abberline (Johnny Depp), an opium addicted policeman who claims to have visions of the murders but who also does a nice line in Absinthe and poison cocktails (for his own consumption). As Abberline investigates, the bodies continue to turn up with more ...

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...speaking so. It drew away from the film, which would have been better done with a real Londoner! The film was made in Prague, and a creation of the White chapel area was made on a 20-acre site, to recreate what life was life in the Victorian days. Streets with cobblestones, dimly lit gas lamps, and people with nothing to do hanging around on street corners, just about sum it up! The film is quite predictable, and the ‘killer’ is obvious soon after ...
...be an American attempt at a British film, which didn’t fully work for me: However that said it was enjoyable and I would watch it again! Certified at 18 (which was another bewilderment to me a 15 would of sufficed I felt), the film runs for about 2 hours Thanks for reading - Dave ...

dabmim 15.02.2002 (31.12.2002) · Read full review
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...new bathroom, making a sandwich from ham on the turn, nasty) but have usually seen it through to the end (in the case of the ham it felt like it was ending me). Watching ‘From Hell’ though not life threatening is one of those times. I sat down with the preconception that this was going to be the definitive ‘Jack the ripper’ movie, dangerous things preconceptions, try and stay away from them if you can. Anyway on with the show, “take your seats mi ...
...I have come to expect from Mr Holm. ==================== The plot Those who are planning to watch this movie should skip this bit, but basically; Set in old London town, prostitutes begin to found murdered, one after another. Due to the ‘surgical’ style our hero policeman Mr Depp states that it’s the work of one man and an educated man at that, which doesn’t go down too well with his superiors. The rest of the film is about tracking this man ...

Dardalius 31.12.2002 · Read full review
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...the 'truth' as depicted in From Hell, less a couple of romanticised details, of course, seems now to be popularly regarded as exactly that, with the monarchy itself and certainly the upper echelons of the state intimately implicated in the matter. It's certainly a romantically appealing ideal of corruption at the highest levels, although a quick look-see at http://www.movieforum.com/features/festivals/tiff01/reviews/fromhell.shtml reveals "The ultimate ...
...any the less impressive. From Hell, featuring Johnny Depp, Heather Graham, Robbie Coltrane, Ian Richardson and Ian Holm, is a stylish and exactingly drawn portrait of Victorian life, warts and all, along with all the worst excesses of a savage and unforgiving period in England's history. It's lovingly created and moulded, evoking a vicious and oppressive world of murder, deception and narcotics. Depp dominates much of the screen time and his playing ...

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...film starring the man himself. From Hell sounded great and never got round to seeing it at the cinema so it was this weekends viewing.. The story is set in 1888 London, Whitechapel to be exact, and the set is certainly very convincing. Lots of dark dingy alleyways, low swirling mist and a bunch of dodgy looking characters that make your skin crawl give this production an authentic feel. You cannot help thinking just how dreadful it really must ...
...how people ever managed to survive at all!. Based on the acclaimed 1999 graphic novel by Alan Moore, it is the tale of the horrendous killings of Jack The Ripper. I of course know of the ripper but can't say I have actually seen anything that actually details his killings up until now. The Ripper prays on unfortunates..well prostitutes to us or also known at the time as bangtails,lovely name for it!. CHARACTERS ************ Lets meet the main ...

Broksababie 01.12.2002 (11.12.2002) · Read full review
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...there was a comic book from which the movie gains its source material. In fact, I had no intention of watching a movie called "From Hell" at all, but fate intervened in one if its mysterious ways and From Hell is what I saw - and very glad I am too. From Hell is based upon a comic book which itself is based upon the Jack The Ripper cases which terrorised Whitechapel in the late 19th century. Do NOT let that put you off though because as comic books ...
...II Society. However, looked at from a different angle then who BETTER to direct a movie set in the squalid ghettos of London than the Hughes brothers whose previous movies have een set in modern squalid ghettos? Trust me, they do an awesome job. This vision of Whitechapel(actually filmed in Prague) is one which comes straight out of the Tim Burton school of film-making. Its a Gotham City of a hundred years ago, beautifully filmed in all its repulsiveness ...

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...Potter’, of course), rouses him from his stupor. He is led to the first of the killings and begins his investigations. They take him into a world of Royal intrigue with rumours that Prince Albert is involved with a prostitute. It’s being covered up by ‘Special Branch’, whose own chief – Ben Kidney - is a possible suspect for Abberline’s scrutiny. He consults with noted Surgeon Sir William Gull - Ian Holm - (played with a little more menace that his ...
...business over here since being released a week or so ago. Forget the indifferent reviews that From Hell has received. Indulge yourself with an evening of old fashion murder-mystery, brilliant cinematography that really captures Victorian London and few twists along the way of what is, after all, a familiar story. ...

flashpointz 25.02.2002 (26.02.2002) · Read full review
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...moving camera shows the movie from a "peeping tom" point of view, and then half the movie doing slow glorious cinematic shots - one simply does not go with the other. Classic filming for what should become a classic movie maybe would 've been better mate. Even Traffic wont become a classic, and the camera jolting is still annoying. And then sound. Oh Lord... The soundtrack is either SO loud, or the speakers in the cinema were buggered ONLY for that ...
...sounded fine). Crack fizzle and pop. This is not kids breakfast cereal, it's supposed to be a MOVIE!!! And finally direction. Taking into account the camera work, the lighting an overall fakyness in the majority of the movie (very strong in the computer animated scenes, that are pretty obvious), I have to say that the director might need to follow a few seminars in his line of business again... So what about the story? Well, it is one of the possible ...

sterghios 21.02.2002 · Read full review
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