I originally had From Hell earmarked as part of my Halloween Marathon, but I just never got around to it then and the DVD has been sitting next to my TV ever since. Well, I'm currently reading Madame Xanadu, Vol. 1: Disenchanted, and one of the stories is about Jack The Ripper. So, it seemed the perfect time to revisit From Hell once again. It's been a long time since the last time I watched this and didn't remember much of it at all with the exception for a couple of scenes.

This is a movie that I had high hopes for. I never read the Alan Moore comic, but knew of it being critically acclaimed. It is after all by Moore. As for the film, with Johnny Depp, Heather Graham and The Hughes Brothers, I figured this would be a knock out from the very first scene. Visually, the film is stunning to look at and I didn't have any problem with their abstract scenes painting a picture of what Abberline (Depp) is seeing in his mind's eye. I thought Depp did a pretty good job. But Heather I think was not used properly in this one at all and the Hughes should have definitely fleshed out the "Romance" that they were trying to build. It just felt very underdeveloped, which also can basically describe most of the movie as it does seem rushed in places. Ian Holm as Sir William Gull does shine whenever he is on screen and does keep the movie together in spite of some flaws throughout the rest of the film.

This is a work of fiction and should not be taken seriously. Pure speculation who may have been Jack The Ripper. Worth a Rent if you like Thrillers or dark and macabre films.

You know, I went on that Jack The Ripper walking tour of London and every murder spot is still a perfect murder spot today, you sort of feel like a lamb being led to the kebab shop.

Oh yeah, great oral presentation, and he would directly point at Chrissi or myself ("but would YOUUUU imagine that...?").  And even on top of that he had a real Alfred Molina thing going on.

I've never seen The Elephant Man.  Still need to.

"Very Long Wait."  (grumbles)

Well, Netflix, but yeah.  Although I'm smack dab in the middle of an online class and don't mind waiting.