Don't think I'd heard of this before but I'm not sure why. Really solid Jack the Ripper type gothic horror/thriller with a great cast. Kept me guessing right up until the end. Lots of interesting characters too it's not just about the investigation.
Yeah, that's quite good. I like that kind of theme and aesthetic. Passed through Limehouse earlier this evening too.
I've never understood how they haven't really bothered/managed to make a seminal film or TV series on Jack the Ripper. It's such a rich subject when you look into the horrors of squalor in every day Whitechapel at the time, then the fact that Jack had likely spent time in Bedlam or somewhere similar, and the treatment of normal women who were basically reduced to an army of part time prostitutes in their desperate conditions and need for board money. It ****ing bothers me.
Don’t know if the film has bern mentioned yet but my favourite is A Matter Of Life And Death. It stars David Niven, Marius Goring and Kim Hunter. Oddly enough Kim Hunter went on to play Zera in another one of my favourite films, the original Planet Of The Apes. A fun fact about Charlton “take your stinking paws off me you damn dirty ape” Heston is that his great grandfather William Charlton came from Sunderland. Anyhow, there are plenty of great films out there but those two have to rank up the top for me.
I'll have to have a look at this one. Lionsgate either do violen horror or Family films, nothing much in between.
Have you read The Five by Hallie Rubenhold? It's the real life stories of the Ripper victims. Very interesting and very enlightening. And very sad.
I was going to but read some pretty scathing reviews from more credible historian types that suggested much of it is fiction dressed up as fact and she went far too heavy on viewing it through a modern lens which hampered her getting to the truth of it. Mary Kelly for example, I'm pretty sure there is next to no history of other than that she was Irish and may have lived in Paris at some point. I should really give it a go regardless as whitechapel in that period is exhilaratingly terrifying.
Although it's not actually about the ripper it may as well be, same period and very similar overall. It does a good job of showing how tough it was at the time, doesn't pull any punches and focuses on working class characters not toffs. It's centred around a theatre and the people who run it which I found interesting. It's more of a thriller but there's definitely a gothic horror element, doesn't skimp on the violence as you say. It's on Amazon btw.
Can't say I'd read any reviews of it to be honest but there is definitely a bit of that in it. Its certainly written with a distinct bias. From my own experience, reviewers can have a bit of personal motivation as to how they respond, so I don't always pay that much attention to them. What it does highlight well is the Victorian moral attitude to things and how that influenced the investigation of the case and the Police's attitude towards the murdered women. It's definitely worth a read.
Forrest Gump is 30 years old this year, just recently watched it again after a few years of not seeing it all the way through, catch little bits of it on here and there, f**k me, you forget just how good it is.
still spot little things that I've missed over the years watching it. Lt Dan, "The day you become a shrimp boat captain I will be your 1st mate, the day you become a shrimp boat captain, that's the day I'm an astronaut" Becomes his 1st mate, then gets "new legs", using the alloy they use on the space shuttle. Forrest basically invented emojis (wipes his face on the shirt). Loads of little hidden gems in it. Great soundtrack aswell.
We always have to have a Bubba Gump's when in America. The t shirts are always good as well. One of those films that you pass down to your kids. 'and Tex......I don't recall where he was from'
