Get out your carving knives, cause we’re headed to the mean streets of London in FROM HELL.

Johnny Depp and Heather Graham star in the Hughes brothers’ adaptation of the quintessential Alan Moore comic FROM HELL, which was inspired by the 1988 BBC miniseries JACK THE RIPPER, which was influenced by the 1978 film MURDER BY DECREE, which followed Stephen Knight’s bestselling 1976 book JACK THE RIPPER: THE FINAL SOLUTION. No idea is original!

It all, of course, stems from a series of murders that occurred in London’s East End from April 1988 to February 1891. Many of those killings were eventually prescribed to “Jack the Ripper,” a serial killer who to this day remains unidentified. Fittingly for our goofy show, our final movie from the “That Really Happened” segment of our draft aligns with a subject about whom we really don’t know much.

Naturally, we dive into societal fascination with true crime in the bonus feature. Then, as always, we ponder “Does this movie matter?” Jack may not like where we arrive.

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