Title: From Hell
Year: 2001
Directed by: Albert and Allen Hughes
Written by: Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell
Music by: Trevor Jones
Johnny Depp playing: Inspector Fred Abberline
Runtime: 122 minutes Official site
It is 1888 in London, and the unfortunate poor lead horrifying lives in the city's deadliest slum, Whitechapel. Harassed by gangs and forced to walk the streets for a living, Mary Kelly and her small group of companions 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, Polly, 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 Abberline, a brilliant yet troubled man whose police work is often aided by his psychic abilities. Abberline becomes deeply involved with the case, which takes on personal meaning to him when he and Mary begin to fall in love. But as he gets closer to the truth Whitechapel becomes more and more dangerous for Abberline, Mary, and the other girls. Whoever is responsible for the grisly acts is not going to give up his secret without a fight....will they be able to survive the avenging force that has been sent after them from hell?
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Thomas M. Hammel, Jane Hamsher, Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes, Don Murphy, Amy Robinson.
Original music by
Trevor Jones
Editing by
George Bowers, Dan Lebental
Production Companies
20th Century Fox, Underworld Entertainment
other Companies
20th Century Fox Studios, AFM Lighting Ltd., Abbey Road Studios Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, CMMP Studios, Custom Film Effects, DB Post, Executive Cutting Service Inc., Fogal, JVT, Mad Dog Casting, MagicMove GmbH, Panavision (UK) Ltd., Paul Morris Music, Reel Eye, Scarlet Letters, Stillking Films, Studio Barandov, Prague, Varèse Sarabande.
Distributors
Gemini Kinomir, Hispano Foxfilms S.A.E., Odeon S.A., Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, UGC-Fox Distribution (UFD), 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.
5 June 2000 - September 2000 in Czech Republic, Goldings, Hertfordshire, England/UK, National Museum, Prague/Czech Republic, Prague/Czech Republic
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Italy 8 September 2001 (Venice Film Festival), Canada 10 September 2001 (Toronto Film Festival), USA 17 October 2001 (premiere), USA 19 October 2001, Finland 28 October 2001 (Night Visions Film Festival), Russia 10 December 2001, Italy 21 December 2001, Czech Republic 3 January 2002, Brazil/Denmark/Iceland 11 January 2002, Peru 17 January 2002, Greece 18 January 2002, Japan 19 January 2002, Netherlands 25 January 2002 (International Film Festival Rotterdam), France 30 January 2002, Switzerland 31 January 2002 (French speaking region), Philippines 1 February 2002 (premiere), Philippines 7 February 2002 (Manila), UK 8 February 2002, Australia 14 February 2002, Colombia/Estonia 15 February 2002, Turkey 22 February 2002, Philippines 27 February 2002 (Davao), Germany 28 February 2002, Austria/Spain 1 March 2002, Belgium 6 March 2002, Argentina/Netherlands/Switzerland 7 March 2002 (German speaking region), Taiwan 8 March 2002, Norway/Poland/South Africa/South Korea 15 March 2002, Israel 22 March 2002 (premiere), Hungary/Israel 28 March 2002, Finland 29 March 2002, Portugal 12 April 2002, Sweden 19 April 2002 (premiere).
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Audio commentary by directors Allen and Albert Hughes, screenwriter Rafael Ygleslas, cinematographer Peter Deming and actor Robbie Coltrane
Alternate ending
Over 20 deleted scenes with optional commentary by Albert Hughes
disc 2
"Jack the Ripper: 6 Degrees of Separation" interactive investigation
"A View From Hell" featurette
Tour of the Murder Sites
Behind the Scenes featurette
"Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Fonder" featurette
Graphic Novel to Film comparison
Original theatrical trailer
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DVD production credits (Disc 1) - Language Selection. Highlight the Main Menu entry at the bottom of the page. Press the right arrow and an eye will open.
45 minute interview "Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution." (Disc 2) - Highlight the "Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Fonder section". Press the down arrow key on remote, then right. This will highlight one of the surgical instruments in the background. Enter.
THX logo: Special Features Menu - move the cursor down to the Main Menu button - press "down", "left", "up" and then "right" - it appears up a red silhouette of the Ripper - select this icon.
JACK-O-PANDERIN' A vivid yet distinctly fictitious recreation of the crime-plagued gutters of 19th Century London, the Jack the Ripper thriller "From Hell" is quite a homage to the dense graphic novel from which it...
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