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Harry reports from the Whitechapel FROM HELL sets just outside of Prague!!!
Hello there.... Harry here, again speaking from the future about the past here in Prague. In the time since we last spoke I have been traveling the city, searching for porn sets, trying to find who I trade this box of levis too and finally... PIVO PIVO PIVO!!! There is some most excellent PIVO in this town.
Immediately upon leaving the computer yesterday I began wandering the streets until I found this bloke with a really fancy car with this winged goddess as a hood ornament. Remember the lead singer from THAT THING YOU DO? Well, he looked just like him, but with more color in his face and a slightly more Brady Bunch hairdo. I got in the back seat of his amazing vehicle and gestured for him to drive me around. He looked at me like I was a madman, so I gave him a 1000 of this funny money, I think that's like twenty bucks american... and we went everywhere. He spoke in Czech, but the longer I listened, I had one of those McTiernan moments, where suddenly I understood him completely. This happened as we passed a gothic church from the 15th century and began to enter the Jewish quarter, where.... if you have ever seen the most excellent film, DER GOLEM... well this is where it was set. I sat in awe... the buildings and the girls in miniskirts rule. I mean they really know how to build both in this town.
We drove down by the river (adjusting my pants) which sometimes is underwater... This liquid flows with the Danube, and the way the light dances upon it reminded of Monet. I never did find Kafka's Insurance Company... I'm still working on it. As for whether or not I brought my digital camera... well... Not only did I bring a digital camera, but my DV... Hopefully I'll have some most excellent stuff for y'all when I get back stateside... The multimedia will take a while because, I leave instantly upon returning home to San Diego for the most excellent Comic Con going on there, then almost instantly I go to Spain for a vacation with Dad.
Now... I suppose you want to hear about FROM HELL.
I had wanted to be all sneaky and covert, I had planned to hire a driver, dress in my 1880 period clothing, and wander in with the extras to get on set... BUT... as soon as I left my hotel this car with these two husky non-English speaking dudes muscled me in. Flashing some shoepolished covered soap carved to resemble a lead injector device. I got in. I was already in costume, fake teeth and all (THANK YOU NEW LINE FOR MARKETING AUSTIN POWERS TEETH!).
We had left Prague when I vaguely began thinking of THE VANISHING, the Dutch film, not the American. I was consoling myself with the knowledge that these two bastards were going to have to spend hours digging my grave... at least I'd have revenge somehow.
There was this massive field of about 2 ft high hay looking stuff, and suddenly we turned left. I saw a sign with skulls and crossbones and some words I didn't understand, but knew must have said... CANDY FACTORY or something.
Suddenly, I saw the tell tale signs of a film set... Trailers... brand spanking new ones. As we passed the one that said Mary Kelly, I realized... oh dear... this is FROM HELL. Then I spotted a Trailer with a big sign that said PIMPS... the Hughes Brothers no doubt. I'm not a dead man. Somehow... life abides... it finds a way in. Takes me to my precious it will.
I next heard a bunch of non-vowels and saw my door open. This either meant, "Out of the car fatty" or "Out of the car Tubbo" or "Out of the car zeppelin lad!" To tell the truth, my McTiernan moment was now gone... nothing made sense again.
I get out and see a gigantic amount of 2 by 4s crisscrossing like Bruno Antony's murder plans. Another tell tale sign... movie set. I eagerly made with my escape from the Tweedle bros, and entered the set.
Now mind you... all day, I've been wandering out in what I can only call one of the absolute greatest OLD cities in the world... so when I say that WHITE CHAPEL looked like a REAL place... I mean it. It looked old and lived in. Almost immediately upon rounding reality and entering this shithole side of London... filled with prostitutes and various criminal wankers... I saw the first store: THE HUGHES BROTHERS CREAMERY.... hahahaha... cheese in the window, brie... the like... And as I turned, I saw blocks of White Chapel circa 1880 or so. This... this was amazing. I've been on the backlots of Universal and Fox and Sony and Warner and... ya know what... THIS TAKES IT.
So there I am walking and doing a few girl named Maria spins while soaking it all in. The horseshit on the cobblestones, I bent... sniff sniff.... ACK GAG...yup, real... Discarded onions and varies decayed veggies spot the streets... There's a cattle trough even. Wow, that's right, and as I stood there, I hear a "HAAAAREEE NOOOOLssss! Hey man, welcome!" and "So what do you think?" these were the Hughes Brothers. They instantly begin pointing out that the dirt on the streets is actual dirt bred from the original dirt and scientificly dated to resemble the actual dirt that was in the White Chapel area. And also, that the paint used on the buildings was actually taken from samples of the White Chapel area, and then mixed using the vintage forms of paint creation. And the blood at this one crime scene... that is the actual victim's blood saved from the vials stored at Scotland Yard and stolen specifically for use in this film.
It seems that the Hughes Boys had scene some 'tribute to James Cameron' and making of Titanic thing last night, and well... they were performing caricature. BTW... I must note, I am now on my second PIVO Urquell of the morning... MUHAHAHAHHAAHHAaa... updating in the sunlight... beer delivered to my computer, beautiful non-panty wearing miniskirted babes with accents out my window.... That's it, I'm moving. Hehheeheh
Sorry... I was living the moment for a second there. Back to the story. Suddenly... This beautiful redhead comes up and takes my hand. My fingers press into her palm as I hear Albert or Allen say, "Harry Knowles meet Heather Graham." To which I say, "My dear your beauty dims the light of Prague and makes it plain. Thank you for giving my world a beauty for which to bask in.".... Ok, that's bullshit, I believe I said, "huh huh uh, um, Hi" She looked at me with those Rollergirl eyes and I melted. I was supposed to tell her to marry Moriarty, but all I could do was leak ever so small amounts of clear fluid... Damn runny nose. She said she had to go get in costume. Which meant to me... That the process of touching my hand, immediately made her want to take her clothes off. I went to follow her, but the Hughes' put hands on my shoulders and said, "This way big guy."
As we were walking, Allen would point and say, "Yeah, right there a guy gets a blowjob while a kid watches from over here" and then Albert would say something like, "And right here... this is where Mary comes walking out from between a guy fucking a girl up against the wall, while a guy is bleeding over here." Every step... every corner, nook and cranny of this set had a story according to these two. They'd point to a building and say, "The camera comes down from up there, passing all those windows... and in each window something is happening," and then the other brother would take over, "and as we reach the street we see like a hog wallowing and beggars and..." so on.. They took me on a tour of where all the murders took place. This was the only point where they got a real serious look and tone to their faces. The crime scenes... are exact. As exact as is humanly (and maybe even superhumanly) possible.
As we entered one dark scary alley, one of the Hughes said, "Hold up I have to take a piss," and the other said, "Seriously?" "Yeah" and he disappeared behind the set wall... Man... they are so exact. They even want the alley to smell like the piss it would. I asked if they had been drinking British beer for the exact smell to be right. No answer. hehehe
From time to time, they would point up and say... That's where (insert landmark) will be digitally completed. This should look beautiful. Their DP is Peter Deming (EVIL DEAD II, LOST HIGHWAY) and at one point as we stood in this courtyard/murder scene.... Peter came up to ask about some camera set ups. Excellent. I watched as they began gesturing about the movement, talking about the color of the scene... Great.
"You wanna see the dead bodies?"
I felt like Gordie, Teddy and Chris when Vern told him about where that missing boy's body was found. Oh boy... DEAD BODIES! Oh goody goody goody. I was giddy. I love fake dead bodies. It's like the grown up version of the bloody finger you could order out of the back of BOY'S LIFE.
We went into this strange storage area... very dark.. light coming only from the two or three windows. I believe I was with Albert as he pulled back the plastic sheet to reveal the first body.
Now, I've always had a Jack the Ripper film fetish. It falls into that Tales from the Crypt giddy morbidity of my soul. I've seen A STUDY IN TERROR, HANDS OF THE RIPPER, TIME AFTER TIME, MURDER BY DECREE, JACK THE RIPPER, THE LODGER, etc. But in all of the films, Jack's modus operandi was basically a scalpel insertion and a rip from the gut to the neck or a slicing of the throat. That will not be the case in FROM HELL.
To anyone familiar with Alan Moore's source material.. you know that Jack the Ripper was performing very... religious/Masonic rituals in the killing of these women. A nose would be cut from the face, another's face was sliced till it resembled something close to Jack Goodman... you remember... David Kessler's friend. The abdomen was sliced completely open, skin peeled back... inner thigh cut open, muscles and sinew laid bare. This is brutal. These murders are of the HELLRAISER variety. The nose being cut off the one girl... hidieous... and just when I thought it couldn't be worse... "and here's what you won't see because of the MPAA." and he lifted the skirt up.... And there was the vagina, about an inch to right, an incision was made, and cut up to about mid chest... flesh torn... terrible... gruesome... I want this for my house.
Next I was taken over to the instruments of the Ripper. A box... Masonic symbol by the latch. Inside, red velvet lined. The blades and saw and things I can't even know the names of... all Cronenberg Chromed. These are not really real insturments... think... DEADRINGERS... Some look like weird deadly penis like death instruments.
This is a very very dark film. When I asked them, what this feels like to make... "We really don't have anything to compare it to, we've never really done anything like this before" Btw... I think somewhere in there one of the brothers took over. You have to understand, when talking to the Hughes Brothers... it can be a bit of a BORG experience. They finish sentences, jump in to complete thoughts... and constantly in tandem. It's amazing to watch.
I met the Production Designer for the film... a Martin Childs... he served similar positions on MRS BROWN and won an Academy Award for his work on SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE. This set, should garner some further attention from the Academy. I still can't believe they built WHITE CHAPEL. I mean... wow. After the walkabout with the Hughes'... I told them I wanted to wander. And I did... I wandered the streets... Imagining the fog, the gaslit streets, the clacking of the hoofs upon the cobblestones.... This is London, White Chapel, 1880. Death is walking the streets preying upon unsuspecting women. I would go to a grocer's window and look in.... Canned plums, rice and grain... beans in bags... A tobacco shop with pipes and canned tobacco, cigarettes in boxes the size of a mint tin today. Everything with intricate engraving styled labels. Posters on walls... little handouts really... advertising a magician performing somewhere in town, wanted posters.... Announcing auctions, etc... Everything was a bit wet as it had rained this morning... A slimy sheen to it all. I asked if this would be foggy. A Hughes brother informed me, that while every Ripper film before had had fog, that the reports at the time had it merely misting. So they have a misting machine that creates this.... half rain half fog like atmospheric.
In about four hours, I am off to begin checking out A KNIGHT'S TALE, which according to the FROM HELL producer, Jane Hamsher (producer on FOR LOVE OF THE GAME, APT PUPIL and NATURAL BORN KILLERS) the A KNIGHT'S TALE sets are very amazing as well. So.. it looks like quite a treat. Now, you might have a question... Why, if the Hughes Brothers' production built the 6 block area of WHITE CHAPEL from scratch in a field... why then did they just not shoot in the USA? Well... it all comes down to costs. This set cost $1.5 million to build. In the U.S.... It would have cost upwards of $5-$8 million. The costs are simply that much cheaper.... and the workmanship is beyond reprouch.
There is also a chance that I might get to visit the set of a film called AFFAIR OF THE NECKLACE which is shooting here in Prague as I type and stars: Hillary Swank, Christopher Walken and Adrian Brody... But I won't know till late tonight, early tomorrow if that is a reality. No matter what though... Between FROM HELL, and being here in Prague... this adventure is very worthwhile as I've lived it thus far. Well the streets are filled with the wailing of sirens.... The sun is beaming and more PIVO is to be had.... So long my friends....
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just wondering.............
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This movie sounds cool. Hooray for the Hughes brothers!
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Harry, why you didnt not take me to movie set with you? You suposed to be my fwiend. I come to your neat webpage all the time and you don't take me with you. Why Harry. call me at 911-887-8856, I need an explenashun.
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Great article, Harry
I see like the true Jet-setter you're doing a few back-and-forths across the pond in the next few weeks.
If you get a chance in Spain I would strongly recommend Barcelona as one of the best cities I've visited.
Also try the Salvador Dali museum at Figures as that guy did some wierd stuff that I'll think you'll appreciate (not just painting).
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harry - you gotta tell me - have you read the screenplay, and have you read moore's graphic novel? is the film going to be faithful? *SPOILER ALERT* and the future-shocks? will they be kept? *ALERT ENDS* i'm a huge fan of moore [if you haven't twigged yet from my user ID] and i've been salivating for a big screen adaptation of his work [on that note, any news on the development of watchmen and v for vendetta? any other adaptation in the works?]... this isn't a very interesting post, is it? very fanboyish - what can i say that's insightful and smartass... well, the casting of depp in the role of the roly poly 40+ inspector should indicate that moore's story [which is the TRUE story, mind you... by which i mean the meticulous moore contradicts no known FACTS] will have to be changed to give the cop more screentime - pity - just tell me there isn't a fight scene between the inspector [why the frag can't i remember his name???] and old leather apron! i think that'd be my main gripe - my HUGE respect for moore is how he concocts a riveting tale without taking liberties with established facts - i think directors are free to alter stories they buy, but, PLEEEZE, don't butcher the past - one ripper in this deal is quite enough
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First, it's "Whitechapel." One word, Harry, one word.
Second, I don't care if Alan Moore just won the Nobel Prize: he is wrong, wrong, wrong about these "Masonic rituals" in the Ripper killings. It's popular myth that is in no wise supported by the facts of the case.
If you're really interested in Jack the Ripper, check out either Donald Rumbelow's "The Complete Jack the Ripper" or Philip Sugden's "The Complete History of Jack the Ripper." Both take care of the "Prince Eddy and the Masons" myth in the best way possible: hard evidence.
As for those older movies you scorn: they used the correct killing techniques. The Ripper's victims had their throats cut and were (sometimes) disembowelled after death. Masonry had nothing to do with. Psychopathology did. -
Or is your writing getting more and more inspired? Prague (or its beer) must be gettin
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OK, I'm not a big stickler for grammar and accuracy of expression like some folks, but when I hit the line: "We drove down by the river ... which sometimes is underwater" it occurred to me that... while I understood what you were saying -- it was the ROAD that was sometimes underwater, not the river -- it was too late to draw the Dr. Pepper back up through my nostrils and back down into my throat where it belonged. Thanks, Big Guy. The ole sinuses needed a little Roto-Rootering. ;)
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Jul 13, 2000 8:10:22 AM CDT
"Touching my hand made Heather Graham want to take her clothes o
by reverend dave
That may be the funniest damn thing Harry has ever written. Peace.
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Great reporting and great news. Sounds like this flick is gonna be a treat. I guess there is a movie to look forward to other than "Vertical Limit" or "Lord of the Rings."
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The whole "mason" theory is DOA, as is Jill the Ripper, and the suspect being of the Royal House. I understand they are taking liberties, but Harry in every Ripper movie, facts are far and few between. Those 2 books Ellid mentioned are fantastic. Unfortuneatly, there is more myth than facts. Kelly herself is kind of interesting. 3 People saw her and a man walking down her street that night, one witness said the man even looked at him (only 2, maybe 3 people got a good look at the Ripper) and lo' and behold 4 hours later her room was a butcher shop.
As for the murders, they all took different forms. They believe as the whore lifted up her skirt (sex was done standing up, as the street was too dirty) the ripper than went behind the victim, slashed the throat and held the mouth shut. (there was always very little blood at the scene). Then they were lowered and business was taken care of. Check out the morgue photos, there's a few of them. (Kelly, Edowes) -
Thanks for the morning giggles Harry. The goddess of wisdom needed it after a very late night.
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This is going to be sooo cool with them doing this, based on Allan Moore's comic (artist somebody?) cool producer Jane Hamsher cooly producing (read her book!) starring cool actors Johnny Depp & Heather Graham (is that idiot who keeps doing all the anti-Depp stuff still posting? I miss you, bud!) Cannot wait for this one!
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Do it lads, I'm well impressed that the Hughes Brothers are making From Hell. Talk about good taste. Good on both of you. And if we're talking British Ale, have a Newcastle Brown on me...p.s watch yourself in those strip clubs Harry... one wave of the dollar and you'll have about 10 mail order brides! Probably all vampires too...
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Was done by Eddie Campbell....Check out www.execpc.com.......NUXX OUT....
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From Hell is just a story! No one knows who Jack The Ripper was or why he killed the women, or why he just decided to stop one day. Everyone has theories and no one will ever know the truth, so let's just relax and enjoy the hell out of this movie because it sounds wickedly cool. Any idea for a release date? This Christmas? Next year? This film is gonna rock! I hope.
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It's a little ridiculous how out of order the posts are today. I read all the posts and was confused by some of them because they appeared before the posts they were discussing. It's the same all across the board, please fix this. Or if not put me first.
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...but after the first 137 paragraphs I kinda lost interest.
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Even 'From Hell's' wuthor alan Moore has said that while writing his graphic novel, he realized his source material, Stephen Knights 'the final solution' was a bunch of paranoid-masonic bullshit. Knight has been thoroughly discredited and numerous things in his book have been proven false. Knight has built a publishing career on writing about Masonic conspiracies. Since he attributes the ripper killings on secret masonic rituals, who's to say that he's lying. After all, they are secret. However, most Ripperologists have totally discredited the Dr. William Gull as the Ripper theory as 'From Hell' presents. The latest (and probably the best) theory is that the killings were done by a man from New York, whose visits to London coincided with the killings. The detectives on the case always said that they thought they knew who the killer was, but were unable to make an arrest. This has led to numerous speculation of high-placed members (even royal family members). But the detectives did make a trip to New York looking for their killer, which means it definitely was not Dr. Gull that the cops thought guilty. This (and all other) theories are presented as the most probable in a multi-part Ripper documentary that aired on the BBC.
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This movie isn't trying to be a documentary, or a "this is what really happened" expose. It will hopefully be a fun, bloody thriller, that I hope will buck the recent trend of MPAA inspired bloodless horror movie killings.
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Harry,
I am the advisor of the youth group at my synagogue. When I took my youth group to Prague during the summer of 1998, we were having a wonderful time walking around the Jewish Quarter when I look across the street, and I notice a man dressed in full Nazi regalia! He had the boots, the swastika armband, everything!
I couldn't believe it! Was this for real! Before I had a chance to catch my breath, he ducked into a doorway and was gone.
About 5 minutes go by, and he was there again, except now, he was with a buddy who was dressed the same exact way! Our whole group of 10 teenagers and six adults followed these guys down the street to find watch them as they met up with a whole group of men, all dressed the same exact way. Then, we saw the trailer, and the movie cameras.
I still don't know what movie it was they were making, but you would think that these idiot extras would have more sense than to walk around the Jewish Quarter of Prague dressed like Nazis!
I am going to Prague again next month, and you can be sure I will be looking the Hughes Brothers while I am there! Hopefully, they won't be dressed like Nazis. -
The real factual events of the Ripper case would make a wonderful movie without once again trotting out half-ass DISPROVED theories involving (take your pick) Masons, Satanists, Abortionists, Royals, a Jewish Cabal, Russian Secret Police, body part collectors, pissed off husbands or the aliens from South Park. It sounds like this movie is as "based" on the true story the way The Perfect Storm might have been "based" on Moby Dick.
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lies which do not contradict facts [including fanciful theories of freemasons and the royals] are entertaining speculation, urban-legend/conspiracy-theory style imagining, which is glorious fun. i didn't mean moore's story is factual [i even qualified myself: "by which i mean he contradicts no established facts"] - read my statement in context - after moore did such meticulous research to fit his mad daydreams into what can be proven/disproved, i would feel terribly letdown if the depp inspector [he already looks unlike the real man, but never mind that] did things that history can show he never did... is all. of course, a great many people who haven't read the considerable ripper-lore wouldn't know the difference, right? on a tangent: the ripper features in "red earth and pouring rain" by vikram chandra quite unexpectedly - that sequence is also the weakest part of the book, which is a sprawling tale which only tries to capture all of hindu mythology - the book plods at points and this first-time writer could have done with a strong editor, but still i enjoyed it and would recommend it if you have time for a slow, immersive type read. the really funny [almost tarantinoesque] coincidence is that i was reading "red earth" and "from hell" simultaneously - imagine my surprise when the hindu protagonist found himself in gaslight london!
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Jul 13, 2000 7:07:36 PM CDT
another two bit's worth, addressed to ellid, scott and robert
by matthewcable
and another thing: why does the "masonic bullshit" alan moore gets stuck into disturb people? as one of you said [i think it was robertblood (any relation to etrigan?)], moore himself in his detailed notes acknowledges that there is precious little to support the masonic link, but [i don't think he actually said it, but it seems obvious to me], even if moore himself didn't believe it, it's a great conspiracy theory and it reads bloody well as entertainment. i mean, the masonic star he drew from the sites of the killings, etc - don't reply with all kinds of scholarly research about how moore has fitted in things to his convenience, what i want you all to consider is the lyrical beauty of what he's done, building up that slow history-heavy chapter and distilling it to one simple image - it gave me chills the way the smiley face on mars did in watchmen. hell, guys and gals, i was monstrously entertained by the tale - even if it was complete baloney, it was fun to see the queen give assassination orders to her royal surgeon [must be my commonwealth upbringing]
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This movie could be pretty cool. Alan Moore kicks ass, and Jack the Ripper always interested me. The above "Limey Summer of Sam" prediction worries me, but fuck it for now, I'm looking forward to it. And Harry, the meeting of Heather Graham anecdote made that whole long thing worth reading. Czech ya later.
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Jul 13, 2000 9:04:02 PM CDT
i agree with MatthewCable. From Hell has GOT to be faithful to
by jonny quest
From Hell may be the best thing that Alan Moore has ever written (Yes, that's right, I said the BEST. It is at least on a par with Watchmen). I hope the movie is faithful to the comic with is a stunning work of fiction based on the very real events of Whitechapel. I know that johnny Depp can do a decent english accent, and I hope that heather Graham's is up to par. I heard that Robbie Coltraine has been cast, I presume as Gull. I couldn't ask for a better choice.
By the way, Harry, if you're really the Jack the Ripper enthusiast you claim to be, you would know that the murders took place in 1888, not 1880. And stop burying your leads in your articles and get to the point faster, dammit! -
I understand your point and all the "From Hell is not factual" posts down below" (Assuming the post system is all screwed up). But I will say I love any attempt at a Ripper film, it's fun, interesting, and some parts they do get it right. I love to read how they are "scientifically" trying to get the streets and Whitechapel to look right. But the gripe I have is that this case isn't solved BECAUSE of all the myths, rumors, and bullshit started by the London papers, which continue to this day! (which one could argue if it was we wouldn't have this interesting topic to talk about and make movies on. ) The case is fasinating, and one is amazed at how little is really known. But I still watch and love to watch all Ripper movies. (catch Hitch's The Lodger, probally my favoirte)....but the mason and Dr. Gull, Jill the Ripper and the royal family theories are all so far illogical and have been proven as such, that the film-makers could have taken one of the better angles. Did the cops actually know who it was? I doubt it. The top 3 detectives all mentioned different suspects. The Ripper either died, left town, or was arrested and incarcerated. To the poster below, the fellow you mentioned in NY (George something) is a promising suspect, but if you look at the MO...is very unlikley. Whoever the ripper was, he had some serious pscyhe problems. Actually, most of the credible eyewittness reports point to a dark skined forigner. Add to that the whole Jewish angle and you got a real big mess. Actually, anybody see that Babalyon 5 ep with the Ripper in it? That kicked major ass!
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Jul 14, 2000 12:53:34 AM CDT
Hold it, if Harry is in Prague then how can he be posting report
by bari umenema
Harry please post some photos of some o' dem hot Czech Strippers givin' you a Lap Dance buddy, that's what we're all waiting for (aren't we?)...
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Jul 14, 2000 1:03:47 AM CDT
OK, now that you've found Jack the Ripper how's about lookin' up
by bari umenema
I hear she dances at the Club Magnifique in the Slovakian part of Prague, or so I'm told Knowles. Ya do like Sexy Strippers don'tcha? Good Man!! Now go get 'em for the old red white and blue Harry Old Boy, give it to 'em good and Remember the Alamo! Have fun with From Helgeland...
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Jul 14, 2000 1:08:49 AM CDT
Real reason for the Masonic Rituals of the Ripper is that he was
by bari umenema
But these reverse order posts are getting ridiculous indeed here...Can't Webmaster get the bugs out of this system?? Alvarado wake up!!
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Jul 14, 2000 1:12:35 AM CDT
Supposedly the Ripper was a Surgeon as well, a Royal Surgeon...
by bari umenema
Of course he could also have been an extraterrestrial entity that traveled throughout the galaxy as seen in the Classic Star Trek episode "Wolf in the Fold" in which Scotty was framed as the Ripper, remember that one guys??
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and i love it. Now, about people thinking that Harry says a lot of things that really shouldn't be mentioned, well, to a degree I agree (I'm a poet and I don't know it!) We really don't wanna' know whether you take a smell of a piece of shit or not, Harry!!! Still, are you guys so fucking lazy that you find it hard to SCROLL??? The personal approach is his trademark and it (most of the time) makes it more interesting than the "bare facts"-thingees that you can always find in a newspaper. What I find boring someone else might find amusing and vice versa and I don't have any trouble at all with scrolling a bit! I mean, for Christ sake, if you're so fucking mispleased than stop visiting the site! Really!
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I'm not going to comment on the Ripper was a Mason theory, except to say that at this distance from the events we just can't know the whys whos & wherefores of the Ripper murders. Maybe it happened according to the Stephen Knight theory (more or less) maybe it didn't. AND, RIGHT NOW, IT DOESN"T FREAKING MATTER!!!!! But if you want to make an interesting story/movie/ comic out of it, the Knight theory(basis for Murder By Decree, & starting point for From Hell comic book) is the one to use. Oh, yeah, & MbDecree did feature mutilation angle, just not as graphically as this appears to....
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i hate to say it guys, but this movie will suck (did any one see "dead presidents"?) and by the way, "summer of sam" is a really good movie, people just missed the point completely!
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This is one comic adaptation that really makes sense! Watchmen is most probably unfilmable, but From Hell..read it and you know what I mean.BTW it would
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If you want Friday the 13th 7 to come out on DVD in uncut form, go to this site and send Paramount an email. From the sounds of it, this could happen. http://www.angelfire.com/movies/jasonuncut
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Read this. It's horrible! Taken from www.imdb.com's plot summary:
"Sinister even by Whitechapel standards, the murder grabs the attention of Inspector Fred Abberline, a brilliant yet troubled man whose police work is often aided by his psychic abilities."
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I saw the movie tonight. It was an advance screening. So unfinished there was no credits, just the movie.
I can guarantee you this movie will not do well at the box office. Because I knew nothing of the author of the book or the book itself, and all I knew about the movie was 1) Johnny Depp 2) Heather Graham 3) Jack the Ripper, I was lost at the start of the movie and could not stay with it. This movie manages to make two hours feel like four. There's little character development, and the "romance" between Depp and Graham hardly exists; it's more like Depp's character just has a crush on her. The ending had me thinking, "what the hell is this?" I'm glad I didn't pay to see it. The audience reaction was bad... a handful of people applauded, most people just sat there staring at the screen.
Just thought I'd let you know... I'm spreading the good word.
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