From Hell

The holywood studio system has been known for it's savaging of creative people and creative ideas, take Terry Gilliam or Orson Welles as an exemple, on the other hand, the comic book world has been know to be the nest of the most creative people in pop culture, but sometimes a crossover happens when hollywood wants to adapt a cult graphic novel with a huge following, and most of the time it ends up making it a sensless blockbuster focusing on the obvious and leaving out all the rest

"From Hell" is a cult comic book about the killings of Jack the Ripper, Several prostitutes are found dead in Victorian London, and then posthumously savaged with some vital organs missing, and Inspector Frederick Abberline (Johnny Depp), who is known for his insight, and who is prone to accurate visions is appointed on the case to investigate, night after night the murders happen following a strange ritual, one of the prostitutes Mary Kelly (Heather Graham) ends up assisting Name Name in his investigation, because she is a potential target, and by the almighty blockbuster rules has an affair with him.

The experience and the craftmenship in these murders shows that the murderer has a knowledge of human anatomy, which leads Frederick to seek Counseling by doctor Willian Gull who happens to be a royal doctor, and leads him to cross the paths of the ruthless special police force and it's leader, the dots on this macabre map rapidly have the pattern of a conspiracy, and through the nets of this conspiracy royal princes and secret society members are either entrapped or pulling the strings, until the final showdown which shows a complexity in the motives higher then humanly possible, it's a divlish plan, a plan from Hell.

Sounds nice doesn't it ? well matter of fact this is ten floors below the level of the graphic novel, because the interesting theory about how Jack The Ripper was making some ritual sacrifice in order to prepare humanity for the twentieth century, and the philosophical significance of the places murders took place in, and his view on time and history, and how it all affected the bloody twentieth century and everything which happned during it has been replaced by a Johnny Depp runnint from a murder scene to a murder scene, while being involved in a hard to believe romantic relationship with the female lead, and Jack the Ripper commiting his murders without clear intentions, the theory in the book is far more interesting, so my advice to you, skip the movie and read the graphic novel .

Year : 2001
Directed by: The Hughes Brothers
Starring: Johnny Depp, Heather Graham, Ian Holm