From Hell (2001) on Netflix
R20012h 2mHorrorMysteryThriller
In 1888 Whitechapel, Mary Kelly and a group of prostitutes are drawn into a conspiracy after their friend Ann Crook is kidnapped. Inspector Frederick Abberline takes the case, aided by visions.
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Plot summary
Whitechapel in 1888 is London's deadliest slum, and Mary Kelly and a small circle of women there survive by walking the streets, harried by gangs. Their friend Ann Crook, once one of them, married a wealthy painter named Albert and now has a baby daughter, Alice. Ann's kidnapping pulls the women into a conspiracy that reaches high society. Polly, another of the group, is then found mutilated, and it becomes plain that a killer the city names Jack the Ripper is hunting them one by one. The murders bring in Inspector Frederick Abberline, who still grieves the wife he lost and whose police work draws on visions. Sergeant Peter Godley tries to follow his theories, and Abberline's feelings for Mary deepen.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about From Hell (2001)
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- Alan Moore said in a 1997 interview that Sean Connery had been cast in the role; when Connery dropped out, the Hughes Brothers met with Brad Pitt and Jude Law before deciding to cast Johnny Depp.
- Nigel Hawthorne was originally cast as Sir William Gull but withdrew after revealing he had terminal cancer, and was replaced by Ian Holm; Hawthorne died just two months after the film was released.
- Marilyn Manson had planned to remix parts of composer Trevor Jones's score for the film, but when there wasn't time, he instead contributed a remixed version of his own song "The Nobodies" for the end credits.
- Star Heather Graham was mid-flight to New York for meetings with directors on September 11, 2001, when she saw smoke rising from the World Trade Center.
- Because critics found early cuts too violent and gory, the studio trimmed the film to avoid an NC-17 rating from the MPAA, eventually securing an R for strong violence, gore, sexuality, language and drug content.
- The original comic's writer, Alan Moore, criticized the film for replacing his “gruff” version of Frederick Abberline with an “absinthe-swilling dandy”.
