The Ripper Untold - 2021

[tanta07]

I was scanning through on-demand movies and this one came to my attention. Since I like all things Ripper, I gave it a shot.

In short? Avoid this one. Super low budget (there's a total of maybe 10 actors and maybe 4 sets used in the entire movie). It plays fast and loose with the actual crimes (it leaves out Kate Eddowes and Elizabeth Stride entirely and places the killing of Mary Kelly in a bordello, for some reason) and uses an absurd plot twist at the end. Spoilers: originally, the coroner suspects to his horror that he may be killing these women while blackout drunk, but later his wife confesses to killing the women because...she's angry about his drinking and womanizing? Yeah, it's bad.

It does include the detail that the Ripper letters were being faked by a sleazy journalist, so that was kind of a nice detail. Oh, and the wife who turns out to be the killer feeds her husband a kidney from one of the victims, although Kate Eddowes isn't in the movie, so it's unclear whose kidney she fed him, or how she even got it? Kind of a devious plot element, even if it's totally bonkers and mostly unexplained.

Anyway, I thought I'd save you all some time checking this one out. It's not really worth your effort.

[Al Bundy's Eyes]

"Ripper Unwatched".

[John Wheat]

I was scanning through on-demand movies and this one came to my attention. Since I like all things Ripper, I gave it a shot.

In short? Avoid this one. Super low budget (there's a total of maybe 10 actors and maybe 4 sets used in the entire movie). It plays fast and loose with the actual crimes (it leaves out Kate Eddowes and Elizabeth Stride entirely and places the killing of Mary Kelly in a bordello, for some reason) and uses an absurd plot twist at the end. Spoilers: originally, the coroner suspects to his horror that he may be killing these women while blackout drunk, but later his wife confesses to killing the women because...she's angry about his drinking and womanizing? Yeah, it's bad.

It does include the detail that the Ripper letters were being faked by a sleazy journalist, so that was kind of a nice detail. Oh, and the wife who turns out to be the killer feeds her husband a kidney from one of the victims, although Kate Eddowes isn't in the movie, so it's unclear whose kidney she fed him, or how she even got it? Kind of a devious plot element, even if it's totally bonkers and mostly unexplained.

Anyway, I thought I'd save you all some time checking this one out. It's not really worth your effort.

Hi tanta07
I've watched Ripper Untold and hear what your saying. It does play fast and loose with what happened and the 'Jill the Ripper' type ending is a bit rubbish. However I rate the acting and I enjoyed the film. Perhaps I'm being biased as I know some of the actors from the film. I also think the film would have been better if the budget was larger.

Cheers John