A slasher of a Movie

Rating: Null/10 (1 July 2005)

This 2001 chart topper Hollywood flick offers a different and a peculiar insight into the most infamous and most terrifying serial killings in British history- the ripper murders.
Set in Victorian London, this film focuses on five prostitutes in the Whitechapel area of London, Mary Kelly, Martha Tabram, Kate Eddoes, Dark Annie Chapman, Liz Stride, and Polly, When prostitute Martha is found murdered with her throat slashed Londoners are appalled but the true nature of her injuries demand that a professional detective be brought in. Johnny Depp is at his acting best portraying the opiate addicted Inspector Abberline assigned to the case, but as he makes progress with Martha's murder another more gruesome one comes to light.
The whole of London is gripped with fear as each prostitute from the gang is horrifically mutilated and slashed to ribbons in turn, each one having part of the body or organ removed.
When Inspector Abberline joins forces with the fiery and tough talking Mary Kelly (Heather Graham) he is offered a crucial insight as to the perpetrator of the crimes a man who married her best friend Anne, a person who appears to have a direct link to the family of Queen Victoria herself.
As bodies begin to mount and the pressure escalates, Abberline is on a race against time to find Jack the Ripper and stop him reaching his final victim, Mary Kelly- with disturbing consequences