Se7en meets Sleepy Hallow

Rating: 9/10 (1 December 2002)

If you've seen and liked "Se7en" or "Sleepy Hallow" you most likely will enjoy "From Hell". I viewed it on it's region 1 DVD with the DTS sound track. The first thing I noticed was the sound. It puts you right in the middle of an eerie environment that can only get more creepy. It really gives your surround speakers something to play with. Then there is the film. The scenes that stuck out to me best were the flickers of grainy, distorted flashbacks that i can best describe as "Something out of a Marlin Manson Video". The whole ambience fits both the story of a serial killer and the slums of old London. The makers of this "almost epic" did a good job making it hard for the viewer to figure out who was Jack the Ripper. It was a relief to me since in the past couple years most crime stories end up being predictable. I've been told that this movie is based on a book. I haven't read it so i can't judge the film based on how well it fallows the book.

I give it 9/10 I was looking for a good old' crime story and it ended up killing more then just a couple of hours.