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Summary: Good Movie
Review: This movie is really good but I have to say that most of the killings in thsi movie isnt done by the killer its done by the people themselves , Some fall into blades and one gets hit by a car its a movie that is good but the killer only had one true kill in the hole movie.
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Summary: Did someone sell their soul to make this movie?
Review: I can't helping thinking what a great movie it would have been to have the story of Jack the Ripper told from the point of view of one of his victims. Or how about a movie where an FBI profiler investigates and tries to settle once and for all Jack the Ripper's true identy. Or how about a movie where we find out that Jack the Ripper was innocent? Sadly this movie is none of those things, and instead-- in tradition of such gems as "Urban Legend" and "I Know What You Did Last Summer"-- we get a group of models who run around doing stupid things for an hour and half. Add to that a dap of spice girls type "girl power" and people talking in british accends (that are about as realist as Dick Van Dyke's chimney sweep character in Mary Poppins) and you have the basic plot of this movie and just about a 1000 other movies just like it (minus the british accents which is new). When even the guy who I am pretty sure is British sounds like his accent is fake then you know you are trouble. You also know you are in trouble when the bloody climax of the movie comes at the begining. True, you have to go into these kind of movies with a great deal of "suspension of disbelief", but there was one scene I found very hard to believe. In the first few minutes of the movie, a college professor pretends to kill one of his students in class in front of a room full of students. Everyone (in probably the smartest thing anyone does in the movie) gets up and tries to get away, but, of course, the doors are locked. It all turns out to be a joke, and his class erupts into appaulse. Now I'm thinking 1) the last thing I would do is appaulde, 2) wouldn't that teacher be thrown out on his [butt] for pulling a stunt like that?
But's it's that kind of logical thinking is not welcome in a movie like this. I remember Leonald Maltin once saying in one of his reviews: "It's amazing how Orson Welles [Citizen Kane, Lady from Shanghai, The Third Man, and a dozen other films that put this one to shame a hundred times over] spent years trying to get funding while movies like this continue to be made one right after another."
[Darn] straight. I makes me wonder also what kind of films are being passed over in favor of this kind of garbage.
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Summary: We've seen it all done before...and better at that!
Review: I live in Holland. Though that doesn't have many advantages, sometimes straight-to-video fodder like RIPPER comes out over here months before it does in the States and that then gives me the oppertunity to cast my verdict a little earlier before any of you American horrorgeeks can.Now, on to the movie... The subtitle monicker LETTER FROM HELL may have this appear to be a cash in on the Johnny Depp/ Heather Graham movie, but don't be fooled. It is more in the SCREAM/ I KNOW WHAT YOU DID... vein. And it isn't a very good movie. The word 'rip-off' clearly comes to mind. Let me explain a little about the plot and you'll know what I mean. A girl is attacked by a serial killer who butchers her friends and she only narrowly escapes. Cut to 'five years later' and the girl is on campus where her criminology professor is giving a course on...you guessed it: serial killers. Before you can say 'haven't I seen this all before?' the killings have started and the girl and her classmates are the soon-to-be victims of a smart (?) killer who imitates (gasp) Jack the Ripper. So, from then on not only do these kids have to fear for their lives, they also have to find out who the killer is, in a very dull whodunnit subplot by the way. Alas RIPPER should have been called RIPP-OFF but though there aren't many, I'd also like to name the good points of this movie.
Bruce Payne (as the professor) is a good actor. I like him. He's become a real B-movie regular (HIGHLANDER: ENDGAME anyone?) and it's too bad the heavy from PASSENGER 57 has ended up like this.
Next to him we also have Jurgen Prochnow hamming it up (but in an entertaining way) as a police detective on the trail of the killer, and English pin-up Kelly Brook as the bimbo/ slut student of the group. She really is gorgeous, but is killed off way too soon in the movie. Finally there's a little spark of energy in the finale and the revelation of the killer. I myself figured it out before that, but for you who don't; it shows that the writer of RIPPER isn't a complete knucklehead and hints at what this movie could have been...namely so much more. In the meantime, if you wanna watch a good horror/ murder mystery I recommend a few Italian giallo's like DEEP RED and DON'T TORTURE A DUCKLING.
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Summary: A Really Great Ripper Movie
Review: I recently picked up this DVD and was really happy with it.I've been interested in Jack the Ripper for a long time and this copycat movie is one of the best I've seen.It has everything that a horror movie should have.......gore,suspence,cool murders and alot of twists and turns.
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Summary: A regular film, but better than I thought
Review: I saw this movie today, and I was a little disapointed 'cause the critics of this film were really bad and i really wanted to see it.But, i was surprised.
I'm not saying this movie is bad, but it's just another slasher film, like Valentina or Urban Lyends: Final cut.But this one it's better than i thought.
Why?
Well, first it has really great moments and really scarry deads.
Second:The director makes an excellent job and the special effects are super.
And third: the acting is pretty good.If you're a fan of Jason or Michael Myers, or even Scream, you'll love this movie.
See you!!
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Summary: Not a bad slasher movie
Review: I was actually pretty impressed with this film, although there are a few plot holes and the idea of people who are being stalked by a maniac deciding to go hide out in a deserted cabin is silly. But if you are a slasher fan, this has got some pretty intense and insane murders...one in a wood cutter has got to be seen. Plus an homage to Dario Argento's Susperia in a goth club is cool... Also, the acting is good, the soundtrack is excellent, and the director does a great job. SO if you aren't expecting a brilliant or absolutely terrifying experience, you might be surprised at how good this B movie is.
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Summary: Not a bad slasher movie
Review: I was actually pretty impressed with this film, although there are a few plot holes and the idea of people who are being stalked by a maniac deciding to go hide out in a deserted cabin is silly. But if you are a slasher fan, this has got some pretty intense and insane murders...one in a wood cutter has got to be seen. Plus an homage to Dario Argento's Susperia in a goth club is cool... Also, the acting is good, the soundtrack is excellent, and the director does a great job. SO if you aren't expecting a brilliant or absolutely terrifying experience, you might be surprised at how good this B movie is.
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Summary: Failure every which way
Review: If you are looking for a movie about the real life Jack the Ripper, this ain't it (one or more of the reviews below are obviously thinking that this movie was the From Hell movie starring Johnny Depp, which it definitely isn't). If you are looking for a movie based upon some facts of the Jack the Ripper case but going off in a new direction, this isn't a good bet either. It's a typical low budget teen slasher with just enough loose mentions of the Ripper case so they could throw a name on it to catch all the people looking for the other movie. It basically steals the plot of Scream 2, replacing the nonsensical links to the first Scream movie with nonsensical links to the Jack the Ripper case. If you are looking for a scary horror movie, this ain't it either. The characters are all idiots. For supposed top students in serial killer studies (that all look like teen models, right) none of them act in a way at all realistic for someone in their position. It's like basing a slasher movie at a music camp but with characters who can't play any musical instruments, except worse than that, because these people aren't just dumb for supposed serial killer experts, they make boneheaded mistakes that cheerleader characters in other movies are too smart to make. So right off the bat you couldn't care less if the characters die, which makes it hard to feel any horror. But then the movie manages to miss most every opportunity for suspense and instead makes fuzzy references to things that never appear onscreen but might have been interesting if they had. If you are looking for a good cheesy teen slasher popcorn movie... nope, not here either. The ending is horribly muddled, the pace is bad, the dialogue is ridiculous, and the romantic or sexy parts they usually use to pad the storyline for those films are entirely absent. And it doesn't even work as a movie so bad you watch to laugh at its unintentional jokes, because it's just not entertaining. It's not a "Hah hah hah. How stupid" kind of thing, more of a "What? They can't be serious, how lame." There were a couple scenes and one or two actresses that might have been good in another movie, if only the people writing and producing it had picked what kind of film they wanted to create and then put a little effort into it.
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Summary: STELAR RIPPER
Review: John Eyres can't be totally blamed for directing this flick. The script must have seemed innovative and challenging at the time. However, I'm sure once he got into it, he must have been as disappointed as I was. The movie opens with a young girl (AJ Cook from Final Destination II) being pursued by a mysterious serial killer who has evidently wiped out all her friends. Five years later, Molly is taking a class in serial killers (do they really offer such stuff?). Her professor, the disturbingly sinister Kane (played with exquisite boredom by Bruce Payne), tells his class to think outside the box. Ho hum...but of course what happens is that this little group of serial killer students are being wiped out one by one. Enter Jurgon Prochnow in perhaps the most ridiculously funny performance ever given by someone who got rave reviews in DAS BOOT, and the plot sickens. Prochnow is so horribly bad, and whoever did his hair, well they certainly aren't touching mine!
This is also an incredibly sadistic movie, the murders being totally over the top; most of the film is shot so darkly you can't tell what's going on, and there's little redeeming qualities, except for a few tense scenes. The ending is so cryptic, you don't know what the heck really went on.
Could have, should have been better, but barely a decent time waster.
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Summary: RIPPER OFF
Review: John Eyres can't be totally blamed for directing this flick. The script must have seemed innovative and challenging at the time. However, I'm sure once he got into it, he must have been as disappointed as I was. The movie opens with a young girl (AJ Cook from Final Destination II) being pursued by a mysterious serial killer who has evidently wiped out all her friends. Five years later, Molly is taking a class in serial killers (do they really offer such stuff?). Her professor, the disturbingly sinister Kane (played with exquisite boredom by Bruce Payne), tells his class to think outside the box. Ho hum...but of course what happens is that this little group of serial killer students are being wiped out one by one. Enter Jurgon Prochnow in perhaps the most ridiculously funny performance ever given by someone who got rave reviews in DAS BOOT, and the plot sickens. Prochnow is so horribly bad, and whoever did his hair, well they certainly aren't touching mine!
This is also an incredibly sadistic movie, the murders being totally over the top; most of the film is shot so darkly you can't tell what's going on, and there's little redeeming qualities, except for a few tense scenes. The ending is so cryptic, you don't know what the heck really went on.
Could have, should have been better, but barely a decent time waster.
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