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Jack's Back.......The Evil Has Returned
SUMMARY
In
the era of the resurrection of slasher movies, any kind of thriller
now became a tremendous splatter. Ripper: Letter from Hell has an
interesting premise, it’s the return of Jack the Ripper in the 21st
Century or perhaps someone just copycat him. The conflict revolves
around Molly, a girl with a horrific past.
In a hard-pouring rain, a 16th old Molly Keller (A.J. Cook)
shrieking through the woods. It looks that she’s been running away
from a bloody massacre, because there’s a lot of dead body within the
wood. She manages to survive that supposedly a peacefully school
retreat though, but she’s now possess a traumatized past behind her.
She willing to burry
her past deep inside, only the existence of Aaron Kroeker (Courtenay
J. Stevens) keep bothering her, because the dorky guy is one of the
part of her past because she and Aaron were in the same High School
together.
Meanwhile, up to her
research, Molly founds that the killing has many similarities with the
killing method that Jack the Ripper used to do. She’s suspect that
someone is copycat the method of that notorious killer. Obviously,
this is really a shocking for them, but because it immense
possibility, Andrea Carter (Emmanuelle Vaugier), one of the gang, go
to the local morgue to examine the bodies of their late friends to
convinced the explanation for Molly’s theory. Nevertheless, precisely
the killer kill her unmerciful there.
For the sake of their life, the rest of them then choose a remote house outside town for hide. Secretly Detective Kelso following them. Even the suspecting Aaron manages to keep them on his track. Things are getting weird, when Molly finds that the killer kills the victims according the similarity of the name of Jack the Ripper past victims to those latest, and since the name of the rest of them also have similarity, yet they are the perfect target. Everything is become worse when the killer cope to start to strikes again. One by one they meet their fate, and then there’s Molly once again enduring a breaking loose hell.
COMMENT The unclear identity of Jack the Riper make Ripper:Letter from Hell have a good premise. The mystery surrounding him (or her?) make the writer Pat Bermel feel free to explore the dark side of the notorious killer. Despite the absurdity that the film holds, John Eyres still run the flick with an elegant style. The result is a dark and gothic suspense-thriller in the name of boogey-man slasher. In my opinion, Ripper: Letter from Hell could be much better if it develop in much simple thriller. But in the awakening of slasher frenzy post-Scream, make it cloaks that way.
The direction is average. The cast’s performance is also average. Only Jürgen Prochnow as Detective Kelso and Bruce Payne as Professor Kane demonstrate a great performance as senior actors. A.J. Cook fairly fine and she could be the next scream queen. Her next project is Final Destination 2 and she was in Wishmaster 3: Beyond the Gates of Hell as well Daniella Evangelista and Emmanuelle Vaugier.
The characters development is okay and it seems to avoid the cliché as much as it can. The killer it self somewhat unclear visualized, but the eerie atmospheres are builds in a sufficient amount and the killing adequately gruesome, even it's not so gory, but still scary.
Ripper: Letter from Hell is a mediocre but still manages to entertain and chills actually could be better, but definitely better than any other slasher comes lately.
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