Ripper (2001) Online

I paid £1.49 for this and I'd say I got my moneys worth. As you'd expect it's very derivative of most films of this genre and treads a fine line between credibility and hokum.

However it's not cringe-inducing bad and I'd probably rate it a lot higher if it weren't for the lack of a clearcut resolution at the end. Even the Director's Commentary failed to shed any light on the definitive solution, basically saying it's up to the audience to decide for themselves - acceptable in a more highbrow production but a bit annoying for a film of this level.

Still I've seen a lot worse and it's worth the small change from anyone's pocket!

When people ask me what are some of the best things in life, I being a horror guru reply, a good direct-to-video horror flick. Straight on the heels of above average (or well above average) direct-to-video horror movie such as, Cube, Ginger Snaps, Cut, and The Truth About Demons, comes the latest DTV installment, Ripper: Letter From Hell. While one may find the premise to be undeniably cliched (it is), the film comes off stylish and ultimately becomes engaging as the body count increases in a most elaborate fashion.

Now for that all-too-familiar premise: Molly Cook, young woman who survives the attack of a sadistic killer now finds herself in a college course studying serial killer theories. When the people around her begin to die, she believes a new serial killer is hunting them down, imitating the slayings of Jack the Ripper.

The killings in Ripper: Letter From Hell, are much more extensive than the average slasher film. Horror fans are used to seeing the killer show up, swing his weapon of choice, and then the scene is cut, going back to the more boring part of the movie. In Ripper, the killer spends more time with his victims, making them scream in agony, stabbing them to death, and then heaving them through a window, or ramming them off a cliff and leaving them to hang onto a rock before finishing them off.

The direction by John Eyers keeps the film moving along at a brisk pace. While the editing tends to be a little MTV-ish at times, it is not overdone. The fast action editing actually works well and adds to the brutality of the killings in the movie. The beginning comes off as a Brothers Grim-like fairy tale with the serial killer's pursuit of Molly through a dark, rainy, forest. The scene in the club where the camera follows the trail of blood from the ceiling and onto the dance floor, is one of the most stylish murder scenes I have seen in a while and dare I say it, reminded me of those elegant murder scenes from the Italian giallos of yesteryear.

There are some major set backs in the film such as a highly unlikeable cast of characters. A.J. Cook (Molly) holds her own and is a convincing lead character. She gets support from veteran actor Bruce Payne. The script has more than a dozen ridiculous lines as one user pointed out, "Shut up!"..."No! You shut up!" However, dialogue in the class lecture scenes about Jack the Ripper are impressive and well researched.

The ending is a grand showdown as the killings become even more graphic and intense. The handful of suspects begin to wind down, and although you may have it figured out who the killer is, you'll be flip-flopping back and forth until the final scene. It's a beautiful scene, without giving anything away, as we are given a glimpse of 1800 London. It's an ending you will either love or hate or just not grasp entirely.

Ripper: Letter From Hell is a stylish, well orchestrated effort and deserves a spot with the recent array of worthy direct-to-video horror movies.

Molly Keller (A. J. Cook), the only survivor of a violent massacre when she was sixteen, is now a student enrolled in a forensic science course at Berkeley. When her fellow classmates start dying at the hands of a mystery killer, who is following the modus operandi of the infamous Jack the Ripper, she suspects that the murderer from her past is back to finish the job.

Molly and the remaining students from her study group pool their profiling talents in an attempt to discover the identity of the maniac.

Director John Eyres directs this slab of stalk 'n slash with both eyes firmly fixed on the teen market, and what may have been a nice addition to the genre becomes an annoying and unwatchable piece of garbage due to its MTV trappings. So obnoxious are the trendy narcissistic teens that make up teacher Marshall Kane's (Bruce Payne) class of wannabe Clarice Starlings, that you'll find yourself rooting for the killer. Main character Molly is perhaps the most annoying character of all; her emotionally troubled, spunky, grunge-chic heroine is carefully designed to appeal to the widest possible teenage demographic; angst-ridden loners, trendy fashion followers, horny guys—she's supposed to appeal to them all. Well I'm not a teenager anymore, and I hated her with a passion! And while I'm having a rant about the students, could someone please explain to me how they all became so damn erudite. From hacking into a police computer undetected, to conducting an autopsy, to fixing a satellite dish, nothing seemed to be beyond their capabilities.

And now onto the death scenes. The first murder is the most impressive—a multiple stabbing followed by defenestration—and it is also the bloodiest. The rest of the killings are relatively gore free and disappointing. The nastiest deaths actually occur by accident, when two characters fall in front of the whirring buzz blades of a sawmill.

Toward the end of this drivel, which at 115 minutes is way too long, I gave up following the ludicrous plot. There was some rubbish about the victims sharing the same initials as those killed by Jack the Ripper, a pointless (non-explicit) sex scene, and various characters were revealed as red herrings. The finale is completely confusing and I ended up unsure as to who the killer really was.

Apparently, the director deliberately wanted the ending to be ambiguous, with the viewer making their own mind up about who was responsible. Well I'm not going to be ambiguous about what I think of this film—it was awful.

As much as the creators of this film want to be intelligent and creative, they fail on both accounts. Terrible dialog, annoying characters, and a pretty lame comparison to Jack the Ripper destroy this film. Not once did I care about any of the characters. In fact, I found myself awaiting their deaths so the film could finally end. The dialog was cliched and boring, and the delivery was rarely believable. Bruce Payne and AJ Cook do a decent job, but the rest of the characters come off as card board cut outs. One of the film's biggest problems is its desire to be intelligent through exposition. Unfortunately, the movie hits rock bottom whenever the characters try to explain something (which I again attribute to bland characters and dialog).

Also, there are no real ties to Jack the Ripper. Almost every Ripper element feels forced (thrown in last minute to cash in on the Ripper craze). A better description might be that they are unnecessary. This formulaic film seems to follow pretty much every slasher film that has come out since Scream. A connection to the Ripper seems to be thrown in for good measure.

To sum it up: If you have seen any slasher films over the past five years, you have already seen this movie.

Girl-running-in-a-thunderstorm-with-killer-close-behind-girl-trips killer-gets-her kind of story. Lots of blood, no originality. One would expect more from a movie which promises serial psycho killers copying Jack the Ripper. No real motivation for the blood bath, least of all a psychological one. Except for the ending which at least creates a little bit of confusion, one could predict every scene at least 10 minutes before it unfolds. Everything in this movie has been done, redone and overdone. It's like watching Scary Movie and taking it seriously. It's been a real disappointment. Where are the calculated blood thirsty psycho killers? What happened to movies like Seven or Silence of the Lambs, with original plots and motifs? Because personally I'm tired of watching helpless blonds being butchered like cattle while instead of defending themselves they scream in agony and then always manage to trip and fall.

Possible spoiler alert. Okay, first thing: How many times do they say "F***" in this movie? I lost count at, like, a hundred. Second thing: This movie was SO predictable. You always know who's the next to die. Third thing: The characters were underdeveloped and terminally stupid. "Gee, according to the killer's profile I'm his next victim. Time for a nice evening stroll in the woods! Alone!" Fourth: Certain scenes in this film were just plain sick. (I was fine until the girl's head rolled away.) Finally, who the heck was the killer?????? Ambiguity is good in moderation, but we need some closure.

To conclude, this movie was a big disappointment. Blood and gore without plot.

When I got this movie, I was looking for "From Hell" with Johnny Depp and got this one by mistake. I'll be more careful next time, I mean this movie is really awful, I'm sick and tired of seeing that kind of movie all over again. Serial killer, teens, woods, rain, problems with engines, more rain, faulty phone lines (well, it's a satellite dish now, after all it's a 2001 movie) still none of them had a cell phone... That thinking "Why? If there's a serial killer after me, WHY will I walk alone at night in the woods ?" For the plot, it's none, or at least none that one can understand, lots of holes on it's, already barely existing, story. This movie is from 2001 and still they use the very same formula that worked with, lets say, Friday the 13th... Except for the nudity, which this movie has none... Want a good thriller? look for Memento(2000), and you'll see what is a good plot.

¡°Ripper¡± is for die hard slasher fans only, and even they will feel cheated. It does commence with promise, but quickly degenerates. The story centers around a young woman with a traumatic and horrific past. At university she becomes part of a group studying the crimes of serial killers, ¡°Jack the Ripper¡± in particular. Their lecturer presents a chilling introduction to the course, which gives us the hope that this might be a thinker¡¯s horror movie instead of just another ¡°cut ¡®em up¡± slasher. Unfortunately, it does not take long before we are seeing the knife wielded with gusto and the potential for real suspense departing. From here on it is a case of, which one of them will do something stupid and become the next victim. The main characters, who by now have become major crime investigators, are wooden and shallow and at times seem to be taking turns to say their dialogue with no spontaneity at all. I enjoy a good thriller but for me, ¡°Ripper¡± was annoyingly predictable.

When the straight to video horror market is good, it's awesome. It gives us things like Ginger Snaps, The Locals, and in this case Ripper. Granted when it's bad it spits out garbage like Alienator, Curse of the Puppet Master and The Last Broadcast, but the more movies like Ripper I see the happier I am I cast my net further afield than Hollywood.

Ripper has a small budget, a relatively unknown cast (aside from Bruce Payne, but I'll come back to that soon) and an unknown director. However, it has what many films of it's ilk lack, an exciting premise and a potential that the movie follows through on.

Let me explain that. Ripper falls halfway between Urban Legend and Crimson Rivers. It has a teen slasher side that flashes through in it's cast of cute 20-somethings and script peppered with 'dude' and people saying 'f**k' a lot for no obvious reason (this doesn't really detract from the story though), but also has elements of a sophisticated art-house thriller. Though it doesn't commit to either, it comes out as an exciting hybrid. This is fantastic, as traditionally attempts to make teen slashers intelligent often just come off pretentious (see Scream for details) and attempts to make arty thrillers appeal to wider audiences normally dilute the idea way too much (remember Hannibal?).

It has it's down points. I had to turn every damn light in my house off to see what was going on at times, as the night scenes are at times so dark that you'll get eye strain just watching them. Also some of the actors are awful. Many of you will join me in cheering the killer on as certain among their number get what's coming to them.

On the good side though, the actors who don't suck are very very good. A.J Cook as Molly is both a great anti-heroine and a wonderful surprise as an actress, and STV veteran Bruce Payne hands in a brilliant turn as the teens' ex-FBI teacher, with a British accent that puts Angelina Jolie et al to shame. Good on you my man, great to hear a convincing accent again! Add to this a twisty turny plot that had me in shock by the time it was finished (seriously, I've seen all the big horror-thrillers and I still didn't see the end coming) and Ripper is exactly what STV is for, showing up the big boys.

So, if you think you can hack a movie with some rough edges, and you like a good slasher whodunnit, check this out.

As most people who comment negatively on DTV slasher films have only ever seen the Scream trilogy and I Know What You Did Last Summer, they can't be expected to construct a comparative view of what is really a film that excels the others of its ilk on production values alone.

Although surface gloss is by no means compensation for a good strong story, Ripper has a whole lot more plot than some its commercially released contemporaries without abandoning the simplicity of the slasher conventions: a group of student taking a course in serial killer profiling are offed by a mystery murderer who bases the slayings on the most famous serial killer of them all - Jack the Ripper.

Storywise, this is really a combo of Copycat and Urban Legend but, for the most part, succeeds in creating an ongoing ambiguity over the killers identity (something that is never honestly made clear at the end), but the ingenuity lies in the styling leading up to the finale. The unsympathetic teenagers are first excited at the chance to do some detective work of their own, then they're curious as it becomes obvious they're somewhere on his list before fighting amongst themselves and ending up hacked to pieces.

I wouldn't give any of the twists away, but Ripper is a largely satisfactory venture with a level of stylish (though sometimes misogynistic) violence that has been absent in recent horror outings and echoes the early days of Friday the 13th with a bit more visual flair. 8 out of 10.

This movie helps the viewer gain a real insight into the minds of serial killers. It really does, because by the time this piece of utter garbage is over you want to do away with pretty much anybody who had anything to do with it. I mean anybody. The actors, director, writer, producer - even the best boy and key grip! They all need to be prevented from making any more movies.

What else can one say about this? Typical (and therefore dull) slasher type story about a group of students taking a course about serial killers who suddenly find that they're being bumped off one by one in a style reminiscent of Jack the Ripper. One of the students - Molly (A.J. Cook) has been subject to this before, being the only survivor of a serial killer on an island five years before. There's lots of wonderful screaming, and all sorts of suspects, from the appropriately creepy professor to the nerdy social outcast student, and by the end you don't really care who did it; you just want them to finish the job and put this cast out of its misery.

Best line though? It's a class of maybe 10-15 people from the looks of it (maybe not that many.) Two of them are already dead, and one student says to another, "do you think we're being targeted?" How'd this guy get into university in the first place?

No more. It's too painful to think about any more. 1/10.

Last night, I rented a movie entitled RIPPER: LETTER FROM HELL from Blockbuster (thank god I didn't buy it) and when I began watching it, I was already worried by the opening of the first scene. This movie was very cliched with an almost comedical plot. A killer begins going around cutting people up in the same kind of style that Jack the Ripper (that's me!) killed his victims. Yeah, right. *SPOILERS MAYBE* First of all, this actress (if you want to call her that...she cannot act) is very stupid. She tries to stay all dark and mysterious and tries to hide away her origins or whatever but it all leaks through like swiss cheese. Secondly, what kind of killer would take the time to sit there and stab his victims in the exact same places where the Ripper stabbed his victims? No one! The plot is laughable and at the very end, where in a cabin far from everywhere when the phones and power go out, there is an array of music that is stolen directly from the end chase scene of WHAT LIES BENEATH! Pass this one up if you see it on the shelf. 1/5.

I rented this movie thinking that with a title like "Ripper: Letters from Hell" that it might have something - anything, to do with Jack the Ripper. WRONG! This movie starts off with a young girl surviving a serial killer's attacks, than jumps forward several years to her as a college student studying other serial killers and obsessed with all things Gothic (the girl is obnoxious, so you have no interest in her or anything she's doing here) Then, about 45 minutes into the movie, someone mercifully starts killing off the various assortment of college low life, and the characters seem to think that the killings are reminiscent of Jack the Ripper's killings over a century earlier. This connection is nominal and if you don't pay attention you'll miss it entirely - and the ending of this horrendously overlong movie explains nothing, which is extremely aggravating and anticlimactic.

They figured that if they just automatically set it up for a sequel they could get away with the movie not making any sense, and the gaping holes in the plot, and whoever does a sequel will either have to explain that themselves, or it won't be mentioned at all, and either way the makers of this movie would be off the hook for any resolution to this story.

Indeed, there are more violent and gory movies than this, there are movies with pointless endings like this, but this one somehow manages to beat all of them and take the cake for some reason. This is a loud, boring, obnoxious movie that just goes on forever, not even good for unintentional humour since it takes itself way too seriously for that. There's utterly no redeeming quality or value to this one at all.

I registered on IMDb just to warn people not to waste even a minute of their lives on this film. It is simply the perfect storm of bad writing, bad dialogue, bad acting, and the most predictable storyline ever. I am a fan of even some really bad horror, as there are usually some worthwhile traits, but Ripper took all semblance of a coherent story and threw it out the window. There's bad acting that is so deliberately bad that it's amusing, and then there's the compilation of actors in this film that one can tell are actually making an attempt, but failing miserably. Considering their subsequent large body of work, the 4th grade level acting can likely be blamed on the truly horrid dialogue they are forced to attempt to make sound decent.

I would tell you to just fast-forward to the kill-scenes, but most of them are not worth the effort (was that apple-red paint used for blood?) Once the music video of the girl running through the city hit the screen, I couldn't take it any more, but forced myself to endure this drivel just to verify the "twist" ending that I had predicted within the first 5 minutes. The best use of this film is as the low-bar by which to gauge all future movies. Forget stars, my scale for horror movies is now a rating system going from Ripper to Evil Dead.

In this one, someone is killing students at a college campus using the same techniques as London's very own Jack the Ripper. The students try and catch him. The audience falls asleep.

This is another misogynist fantasy in which several young women are brutalised by a killer with a stainless steel kitchen knife. One of the suspects looks and acts like a young Bobcat Goldthwaite, Bruce Payne proves once again that he's Britain's most embarrassing export since Julian Sands, and Jurgen Prochnow, as a twitchy detective, continues his regrettable career slide. Rubbish.

Oh, and although I'm no expert on the history of serial killers, I think I can safely say that Jack the Ripper never ran any of his victims over in a jeep.

This is a terrible movie, absolutely dire. I can't think of a single good thing to say about it, except that watching Jurgen Prochnow prowling and slithering around, dressed all in black, whispering half his lines and over-emphasising the other half gave me the best laugh I've had for a long time. What a waste of a good actor. The rest of the cast are terrible too, but perhaps that's their normal standard of acting, I don't know as I've never seen any of them before, and I hope I don't see them again. The entire film is badly written, badly acted and very badly directed. At the end I still didn't know for sure who the killer was. At first I thought this was because my brain had atrophied during the course of watching the movie, but when I listened to the Director's commentary on the DVD I discovered that he'd 'deliberately left the film open-ended so that we could all make up our own minds'. Now there's a novelty. If you can't make up your mind how to end a film, leave it to the viewers! I wouldn't recommend this film to my worst enemy.

Don't get me wrong,I love a myriad of horror styles, from the cheesy video flick through to pulsating realistic horror, but this flick was a stunningly poor piece of work that deservedly bypassed the cinemas the world over. Shamelessly borrowing elements of recent horror movie hits such as "Scream" "Copycat" and "I Know what you did last Summer", the film drags on interminably for nearly 2 hours with an assortment of laughable plot details, uphorent acting, a contrived soundtrack matched by the god-awful dialogue ( for example : "Shut up!" - "No, You Shut up!" ), the silliest love scene and a swag of horror movie cliches that even a spoof film wouldn't dare use due to familiarity. (The Phones don't work on a stormy night!). Even hanging in there to the film's climax doesn't deliver a modicum of merit, let alone sense. Instead, you're left wondering aloud, how in hell, this piece of garbage was ever produced.

This film was better than expected and enough of the characters were developed to the point that it was very difficult to guess just who might be the killer. You would make up your mind and then change it over and over again. The violence was not as graphic as it might have been and they spent more time on the characters which is a change. Strong acting from many of the young actors was an unexpected surprise. A cut above the typical teen movie.

By the time she was sixteen, Molly Keller had already lived to tell a very bloodcurdling tale: she was the only survivor of a violent massacre while on an otherwise peaceful island vacation with her friends. Disturbed by her horrific past, Molly focuses all of her energies in researching the psyche of serial killers. This leads her to the forensic science program at Berkeley under famed author and man hunter Professor Martin Kane. But before long, the evil that claimed Molly's friends is seemingly loose once again - this time on the campus. A reluctant Molly joins the study group which is fixated on tracking the gruesome murderer. But events take an eerie turn when the students discover that the killer's modus operandi matches London's oldest unsolved murders: those of Jack the Ripper. Molly's friends fall victim around her, one at a time, while the remaining group work feverishly to uncover the identity of the copycat killer. As the past re-awakens, Molly is forced to face the terrifying secret behind the stalker's return, and the entire class soon realises that it's a history that they don't want to repeat.

This film starred: A.J. Cook, Bruce Payne & Jurgen Prochnow.

RIPPER was released in 2001 and is a slasher film based on Jack the Ripper. This film ran for a bit too long as it is 1 hour 50 minutes long, no slasher film is on for this long. So not very surprisingly this is a slow and boring horror film based on a Jack the Ripper copycat killer. I don't recommend this film because it is not very good and not a film that you will want to tell your friends about or a film that you will remember for very long yourself.

**/***** Poor.

Here's a list of things Ripper gets wrong:

1) It's a post-Scream slasher 2) It's full of terrible music and horrible quick-cut editing 3) It's one hour and forty-five minutes long (A slasher film!) 4) With the exception of Bruce Payne and Jurgen Protchnow, the acting is terrible

And if you think I'm going to say 'in spite of this, I liked it' then you're wrong. It was crap!

After a promising pre-credits sequence where a girl named Molly survives a serial killer's rampage, we're thrown right into smart arse territory as we see our victims are all part of a college class who are studying murderers, or something. We've got our post-Scream list of morons here: goth-like Molly who keeps her past a secret, Marissa (Kelly Brook!), who's the nymph, twitchy red herring guy, the dark stud guy, the wisecracking guy, and the bitch, who hates Molly and serves to introduce an unneeded teeny drama element to the proceedings. Their teacher is Bruce Payne, an ex-FBI profiler who also has a dark secret. Everyone, with the exception of the twitchy guy, is confident and annoying.

We run slap bang into the film's main problem here: too much talking! We get a lot of babble about serial killers (looks at watch), characters establishing themselves (nods off), and a fake killing instigated by the teacher (pffft). Eventually we get to the first killing, which, for anyone who sat through The Big Breakfast on British television, is mercifully Kelly Brook. She's stabbed to death in a nightclub in a way that turns out to be exactly the same way Jack the Ripper killed his first victim (more lengthy discussions about Jack the Ripper here, and indeed this goes on throughout the film).

To cut a very long story short (there are only two killings in the first hour!), one of the students (or maybe the teacher) is killing everyone else in the way Jack the Ripper killed his victims. Turns out all the students have the same initials as the victims of Jack (how stupid is that?) so they know who's going to be next. Throw in some Dawson's Creek drama (Molly likes the stud, but the Bitch tries to derail things), some truly daft contrivances (the initials thing, Molly being able to hack the police database) and a severe lack of gore and nudity, and you have a truly rubbish slasher flick. What drags this film way, way down is the deadly serious tone, the crappy music (nu-metal, some emo style crap) and the acting of the younger cast. Check out Molly's tantrum which seems to involve throwing cushions around and spray painting!

Also, the 'killing Jack the Ripper style' plot is plainly dropped after the first two kills (unless Jack the Ripper used a bandsaw and a hatchet), plus the ending is completely daft and annoying.

It is well made enough, but the post-Scream era wasn't a great time for slasher films. What Scream missed was that, yes, the older films had clichés, and were predictable, but they were fun! Don't believe me: try Pieces (1982), Don't Open Till Christmas (1984), and any other Sleepaway Camp films. Much better.

Avoid!

This was an absolutely terrible movie. Gore and vulgarity may not really be my deal, but there was no sequence to scenes and little character development. I would advise not to see it, but if you do...at least heed my warning on the shock value.

Even though the main cast holds its ground, this is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. The plot is so weak and full of holes, it feels as though it's been written by a 14 year old. Of course, it's nearly impossible to guess who the killer is - I did - and the end might be surprising, but that's only because of the inumerous and contradictional sequences. The way the characters react to the deaths of their friends is totally unreal. And the method used to profile this killer is laughable - to say the least.

I thought that I was going to be OK with this film because I wasn't going to be surprised at what AJ Cook might do, but boy was I wrong. AJ is the worst person in the entire cast as she was a complete bitch from the very start all the way to the end. She assaults the same bloke three times, once when she was confronted to being a killer and twice when she thwack him with an ax without letting him even explain. Her sexism in Criminal Minds was bad enough but now it got worse. It was a Jack the Ripper movie yes, but sadly, thanks to AJ Cock, its a jack the ripper film I will have to get rid off. Certainly I must of read the plot wrong on wikipedia. I'll make sure I read it all before choosing to watch it or not

Ripper was released at the height of popular slasher movies such as Scream, Halloween, and Friday the 13th. It's no surprise that Ripper made a quiet entry via direct to video because I had not heard of this movie until I saw this on the New Release shelf. I didn't think much of it until I rented this on video. To sum it all up: this was a terrible movie that I saw mostly on fast forward.

The derivative, uninspiring, yawn-inducing plot is summed up in a few sentences. A sole survivor of a massacre (A.J. Cook, Final Destination 2) studies serial killers under a famous Forensic Science expert (Bruce Payne, Passenger 57), but her classmates soon start dying at the hands of a serial killer who is replicating the infamous killer Jack the Ripper. A police detective (Jürgen Prochnow, Das Boot) is tasked to investigate the murders. How original, right? The movie was uninteresting, unoriginal, and worst of all extremely lame. Despite watching most of this movie on fast forward it was a total waste of time and I had wasted whatever rental fee (it may have been $6.00 back in 2002) it was that I paid to rent this movie from the local video shop.

Ripper was a rip off and a complete waste of time. Avoid this atrocity of a movie.

1/10.

This movie had a good idea. Kids taking a class to become profilers from an ex-FBI agent. Then they themselves become targets. One of the classmates, the main character, was stalked by a killer herself in the beginning of the movie. So, you must figure that she took this class because she wanted to understand what was behind those murders, or perhaps to protect herself. Too bad that's what I thought. Because it was nothing of the sort. It become all too predictable and I had the whole thing figured out half-way through the movie. I hate that.

I love horror movies so much, that I will even watch bad ones such as Reanimator. But what makes Reanimator so great, is that it was presented in a way that you would take it seriously. You knew what you were getting yourself into watching this movie. Unfortunately, RIPPER tries to be serious, but is unable to provide the substance to do so. In addition, the editing is choppy, and the motives and personalities of the characters are all over the place.

Maybe this movie belongs on MTV. Don't waste your time.