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The infamous Victorian murderer Jack the Ripper preys upon
prostitutes in the Whitechapel district of London in 1888, while a young police inspector
(Johnny Depp), guided by opium-induced visions of the murders, tracks him down. Also with
Heather Graham, Ian Holm, Robbie Coltrane and Jason Flemyng. [2:17]
SEX/NUDITY 7 - A man and woman are shown having sex: the man lies on his
back and we see his bare chest as the women sits on top of him thrusting (we see her bare
breasts and back). Two women lie on a table in an opium den: one lies nude on her stomach
and the other, also nude, lies on her back; men surround the table caressing them (we see
them again in another scene). Several women are shown in alleys having sex with men; the
women hike their dresses up, the men unfasten their pants and we see them engaged and
moaning. A woman kisses two other women on the mouth and makes advances toward them, but
both push her away. A nude man sits in a hospital cell (no private parts are evident) and
we see a man's bare chest as he bathes. A group of women bathe in a trough of water in the
street; we see some cleavage and they hike their skirts to wash their crotches. Two women
are shown sleeping in their petticoats. A prostitute propositions a man; he rebuffs her.
Prostitutes wear dresses that reveal some cleavage. A man and woman kiss passionately a
couple of times, and a man and woman kiss romantically.
VIOLENCE/GORE 10 - Several brutal murders are depicted; some scenes take
place as a man's opium-induced visions. A man tears open a woman's dress, slashes her
throat and stabs her repeatedly. A man grabs a woman by the throat, and we see her lying
in a puddle of blood while he is doing something to her (we find out later that he's
removing her genitals and some internal organs). A woman walks down a dark hallway and we
hear a struggle and see glints of hands and blood and hear slashing; we then see her dead
body with lots of blood around the crotch area (covered by her dress) and a gaping neck
wound. Another woman walking down a dark street is grabbed and pulled into a heavily
shadowed doorway; we see the glint of a blade as it strikes her several times and we hear
crunching noises as it enters her body. A woman goes down an alley with a man, he pulls a
knife, she hits him and runs but is tackled by another man who holds her while the first
man slashes her throat (we clearly see the wound gaping open and bleeding). A man
strangles a woman, slashes her throat, removes her heart, holds it in his hand and throws
it in a kettle over a fire (we hear a police officer refer to her as having been torn to
pieces). A man murders a woman and we see blood spurting from the wounds. A woman's throat
is slashed very quickly with a metallic noise and blood pours out of the wound, and we see
a woman being slashed with a knife and she screams. We see a room covered with splattered
blood and we see a morgue a few times with many dead bodies covered with sheets. In
another scene in a morgue a man is lifting a sheet off a victim to expose her wounds as
flies buzz about and a man vomits and faints from what he sees. A blood-soaked sheet
covers a dead woman. There are several scenes showing autopsy photos with roughly stitched
neck wounds, and there are several clinical discussions of the details of gruesome
murders: there are descriptions of the removal of the victims' genitals and some internal
organs by the murderer, and a description of a victim's intestines having been wrapped
around her neck and shoulders. We see a bloody kidney in a box. A woman is strapped onto
an operating table and wheeled into an observation room where a lobotomy is performed by
striking her in the head three times with a hard tool and a hammer; we see her later with
big scars on her forehead and milky eyes (a similar procedure is performed on a man). A
man is kicked out of a moving carriage and his head ends up getting entangled in the wheel
causing the carriage to tip over. A coffin breaks open at a funeral and we see the corpse
with a bloody, stitched up neck wound. A man lies dead, presumably from an opium overdose,
with his eyes open. A man hits a woman across the head with a heavy pan, and a man slams a
man against a wall twice and grabs him by the throat. Two men grab a woman, one holds her
while the other threatens her with a knife and cuts the buttons off her dress. A woman is
slammed against a brick wall and threatened with an ice pick pointed at her eye. A man
grabs a woman and she screams and flails about. A man holds a gun on a man, and a man is
hit in the head with a stick knocking him out. A mob marches through a street with
torches, apparently threatening merchants, tradesmen and Jews. We see some blood in a wash
basin, a man eats a piece of very bloody meat and pours himself some red wine (although it
looks very thick and could be something else) and drinks it, and we see bloody surgical
tools and gloved hands. A group of men barge into a room where a man and woman are having
sex; the men grab the woman and drag her out in the street wrapped in a sheet and then
follow with a man, who's also wrapped in a sheet. A man holds a knife to a man's
throat and threatens him, and a man holds a knife to a woman's clothed breast. A man
kneels blindfolded while another man pokes his chest with a sword (some blood trickles). A
barrel is ignited, rolled toward two men and it explodes. A man is tripped, falls to the
ground, is picked up, slammed against a wall and punched in the stomach (he bleeds from
the mouth). A group of women yell at each other and one throws something which breaks a
window. We see a deformed man who suffers from neurofibromatosis (the "elephant
man" disease) on display in front of a group of doctors and wealthy contributors. We
see a portrait of a surgery with a group of men tearing at a patient's organs. A man hits
a man in the face to wake him. We see a man with a large scar across his eye and down his
cheek. A man urinates in an alley and we hear the trickle. A group of women are shown in a
cage. A very dirty man sits on a curb and quakes. A man talks about his wife and child
having died during childbirth.
PROFANITY 6 - 13 F-words, 16 mild obscenities, 7 religious exclamations, and
some insults. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Serial killing, prostitution, rape, torture, snobbery,
venereal disease, opium use, anti-Semitism, racism, gossip, Free Masons, death rituals,
royalty, loyalty.
MESSAGE - We can't always have what we want from life. Evil exists.
Victorian England was a very unpleasant place and era.
(Note: Opium dens are shown several times, with people smoking opium to the point
of unconsciousness.)
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