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From Hell (film)

From Hell
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by The Hughes Brothers
Produced by Don Murphy
Jane Hamsher
Screenplay by Terry Hayes
Rafael Yglesias
Based on From Hell
by Alan Moore
Eddie Campbell
Starring Johnny Depp
Heather Graham
Ian Holm
Robbie Coltrane
Ian Richardson
Jason Flemyng
Music by Trevor Jones
Cinematography Peter Deming
Edited by George Bowers
Dan Lebental
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release date
  • October 19, 2001 (2001-10-19)
Running time
122 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $35 million
Box office $74.5 million

From Hell is a 2001 American mystery horror film directed by the Hughes brothers and loosely based on the graphic novel From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell about the Jack the Ripper murders.

In 1888, Mary Kelly (Heather Graham) and her small group of London prostitutes trudge through unrelenting daily misery. When their friend Ann Crook (Joanna Page) is kidnapped, 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, Martha Tabram (Samantha Spiro); and it becomes apparent that they are being hunted down, one by one as various prostitutes are murdered and mutilated post-mortem.

The murder of Martha and her companions grabs the attention of Whitechapel Police Inspector Frederick Abberline (Johnny Depp), a brilliant, yet troubled, man whose police work is often aided by his psychic "visions." His colleague, Sergeant Peter Godley (Robbie Coltrane), tries to grasp his friend's wild theories. Abberline's investigations reveal that the murders, while gruesome, imply that an educated person is responsible due to the precise and almost surgical method used. Ann is found a few days later in a workhouse having been lobotomized after officials and doctors supposedly found her to be insane.


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