From Hell (Blu-ray) R
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 2 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 9, 2007
- Originally Released: 2001
- Label: 20Th Century Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Johnny Depp & Heather Graham | |
Performer: | Ian Holm, Robbie Coltrane, Jason Flemyng, Lesley Sharp, Susan Lynch, Terence Harvey, Katrin Cartlidge, Paul Rhys & Ian Richardson | |
Directed by | Allen Hughes & Albert Hughes | |
Edited by | Dan Lebental | |
Screenwriting by | Terry Hayes & Rafael Yglesias | |
Music Performer: | Marilyn Manson | |
Composition by | Trevor Jones | |
Produced by | Don Murphy & Jane Hamsher | |
Director of Photography: | Peter Deming | |
Executive Production by | Amy Robinson & Thomas M. Hammel |
Entertainment Reviews:
...The Hughes Brothers' goal here is to make an epic of savagery, and they are brilliant at ambience and details....A conspiracy-theory thriller with brains and a heart...
New York Times
Rating: 2/5 --
A whodunit where the who is bloody obvious and the characters disposable.
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BBC.com
Rating: 3/5 --
Moore might not be merrier, but this is far from offal.
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Film4
This wry, atmospheric procedural spawned by a real mystery would be thorny enough without also being an adaptation.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 3/4 --
Every generation gets the Ripper who best fulfills its fantasies, and ours fatten on vast conspiracies.
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TV Guide
Rating: 3/5 --
See it for the stunning visuals and Depp's performance rather than a factual re-telling -- if you can stomach it.
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Hollywood.com
...Impressively realized, confirming the Brothers as formidable visual stylists....The shadow-drenched Prague studio sets help sustain a sense of claustrophobia well suited to a tale of endemic corruption...
Sight and Sound
Product Description:
FROM HELL is a gory detective film cloaked in Victorian-era mystique. The movie shows how the serial killer Jack the Ripper stalked the dark streets of 1888 London, slaying prostitutes and crudely dissecting their bodies. Based on the graphic novel written by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell, this moody chiller is directed by twin brothers Albert and Allen Hughes (MENACE II SOCIETY, AMERICAN PIMP). Johnny Depp stars as Inspector Frederick Abberline, who smokes heavy doses of opium and drowns himself in absinthe to evoke hallucinatory visions that are his clues to catching the Ripper. Heather Graham costars as the prettiest of the floozies, who wins the muted affections of the Inspector.
With plenty of atmosphere and spooky effects, FROM HELL borrows scenery, filming tricks, and sequence construction from a host of popular movies, resulting in a visually interesting--if inconsistent--style. Haunting nighttime shots of the London skyline (actually Prague) bleed into shadowy Tim Burton-like prowls through the damp cobblestone streets; aerial camerawork contrasts with crowded ground-level focuses; and the camera peeks around corners and into foggy windows with stealthy curiosity. What may stand out most in viewers minds after the carnage is through, is the exaggerated use of surround sound, which brings a dreadful sense of reality to the film's gore, making FROM HELL all the juicier.
With plenty of atmosphere and spooky effects, FROM HELL borrows scenery, filming tricks, and sequence construction from a host of popular movies, resulting in a visually interesting--if inconsistent--style. Haunting nighttime shots of the London skyline (actually Prague) bleed into shadowy Tim Burton-like prowls through the damp cobblestone streets; aerial camerawork contrasts with crowded ground-level focuses; and the camera peeks around corners and into foggy windows with stealthy curiosity. What may stand out most in viewers minds after the carnage is through, is the exaggerated use of surround sound, which brings a dreadful sense of reality to the film's gore, making FROM HELL all the juicier.