From Hell is a 2001 film about the Jack the Ripper murders, based on the graphic novel of the same name by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell. It was directed by the Hughes brothers, the first and only film that they directed outside of the urban film genre. It was first released on October 19, 2001.
It is 1888 in London, and the poor lead horrifying lives in the city's deadliest slum, Whitechapel. Harassed by gangs and forced to work the streets for ...
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From Hell is a 2001 film about the Jack the Ripper murders, based on the graphic novel of the same name by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell. It was directed by the Hughes brothers, the first and only film that they directed outside of the urban film genre. It was first released on October 19, 2001.
It is 1888 in London, and the poor lead horrifying lives in the city's deadliest slum, Whitechapel. Harassed by gangs and forced to work the streets for a living, Mary Kelly and her small group of prostitutes trudge on through this daily misery, their only consolation being that things can't get any worse.
Yet things somehow do when their friend Ann is kidnapped and they are drawn into a conspiracy with links higher up than they could possibly imagine. The kidnapping is soon followed by the gruesome murder of another woman, Martha, and it becomes apparent that they are being hunted down, one by one.
Sinister even by Whitechapel standards, the murder grabs the attention of Inspector Fred...
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