I just wondered what any of you thought about the movie "From Hell" starring Johhny Depp as detective Abberline. I really love this film; it's beautifully filmed and the performances, especially Depp's, are first-rate. I realize that theories involving the Royal family and/or freemasons are not popular among most Ripperologists, but I think the film does a good job of painting a plausible theory about what happened. It's based largely, but not totally, on Stephen Knight's original postulation, set forth in his "Jack The Ripper: The Final Solution." Imho, at this point, we'll never know who the Ripper really was, and I don't believe that much real evidence exists against any of the usual suspects (Druitt, Koslovski, Chapman, Tumblety, etc.). It's become just an interesting and probably unsolvable parlor game, and all we can really do is speculate. Something keeps drawing me back to Knight's theory, but then again I do really love conspiracies....

Hey Don, good to see you back.

Your correct, the film is a wonderful peice of nonsence, and Depp is about the only Hollywood actor who can muster a half decent Cockney accent, but, and boy is it a large but, any film that portrays Abberline as a young, handsome, drug abusing cop, with psychic abilities, and to top it off, having a love affair with poor Mary has, IMHO, to be treated with a certain degree of mistrust.

"it's beautifully filmed and the performances, especially Depp's, are first-rate."

I agree. Am watching it at the moment. The 2 disk set is interesting in the additional content. Photos, histories etc. Tumblety seems the main suspect by the ripperologist interviewed. Fascinating.


How accurate are all the sets?