History Film / FromHell

* HeKnowsTooMuch: Ann Crook is lobotomized and hidden away in a work house to cover up her marriage with 'Eddy'. And then sights are set on her friends, who were all witnesses to the wedding...

* RedHerring: [[spoiler: Dr. Ferral is hinted to be the Ripper, as he's the one who lobotomized Ann Crook, has a reputation as the best surgeon in London, is shown being inducted into the Free Masons, and is portrayed as cold-blooded and with a lack of feeling. In actual fact he doesn't appear to know anything about the scandal ''or'' the cover-up, and it's Gull who likely arranged for Ann to the unlucky patient and who's been committing the murders.]]

** Creator/JohnnyDepp as Inspector Abberline is more attractive than how he was in real life, or how he was drawn in the comic, where he's based on Creator/RobbieColtrane. Coincidentally, Coltrane was cast in a side role.

* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Dr. Ferral is hinted to be the Ripper, as he's the one who lobotomized Ann Crook, has a reputation as the best surgeon in London, is shown being inducted into the Free Masons, and is portrayed as cold-blooded and with a lack of feeling. In actual fact he doesn't appear to know anything about the scandal ''or'' the cover-up, and it's Gull who likely arranged for Ann to the unlucky patient and who's been committing the murders.]]

** Creator/JohnnyDepp as Inspector Abberline is more attractive than how he was in real life, or how he was drawn in the comic, where he's based on Creator/RobbieColtrane. Ironically, Coltrane was cast in a different role.

* RedHerring: [[spoiler: Dr. Ferral is hinted to be the Ripper, as he's the one who lobotomized Ann Crook, has a reputation as the best surgeon in London, is shown being inducted into the Free Masons, and is portrayed as cold-blooded and with a lack of feeling. In actual fact he doesn't appear to know anything about the scandal ''or'' the cover-up, and it's Gull who likely arranged for Ann to the unlucky patient and who's been committing the murders.]]

* ArtisticLicenseLaw: According to this film, the murders carried out by UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper [[spoiler:were to cover up the fact that Prince Albert Victor secretly married Ann Crook, a Catholic, and their daughter Alice is the legitimate heiress to the British throne. Except that due to various laws, no, she definitely isn't. A) [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Marriages_Act_1772 The Royal Marriages Act]] meant that members of the British royal family needed permission from the reigning monarch to marry; since Albert certainly didn't have said permission, the marriage is automatically null and void, and any children that came from it would be bastards. B) Even if Albert had somehow gotten permission to marry Ann, the fact that she's Catholic would automatically remove him and his heirs from the succession, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_Settlement_1701 according to the Act of Settlement.]]]]

** Creator/JohnnyDepp as Inspector Abberline is more attractive than he's drawn in the comic, where he's based on Creator/RobbieColtrane. Ironically, Coltrane was cast in a different role.

* ArtisticLicenseLaw: According to this film, the murders carried out by Jack the Ripper [[spoiler:were to cover up the fact that Prince Albert Victor secretly married Ann Crook, a Catholic, and their daughter Alice is the legitimate heiress to the British throne. Except that due to various laws, no, she definitely isn't. A) [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Marriages_Act_1772 The Royal Marriages Act]] meant that members of the British royal family needed permission from the reigning monarch to marry; since Albert certainly didn't have said permission, the marriage is automatically null and void, and any children that came from it would be bastards. B) Even if Albert had somehow gotten permission to marry Ann, the fact that she's Catholic would automatically remove him and his heirs from the succession, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_Settlement_1701 according to the Act of Settlement.]]]]

* BlackEyesOfEvil: [[spoiler: Sir William Gull a.k.a Jack The Ripper shows these for a moment]].

* DistractedByTheSexy: A meta-subversion. One of the deleted scenes opens with a naked girl stepping out of a bath, followed by a dramatic bit having nothing to do with her. Per the commentary, the scene was deleted because the girl was so sexy, the audience was in the wrong mood for the drama.
* EagleEyeDetection
* EyeScream: "I could pop your eye out...they don't care if a whore can't see."

** The film's one clever moment was how it efficiently replaced the visual montage of how ordinary people wrote phony letters claiming to be from Jack the Ripper with a quick scene in which the detectives read those letters with each being read with a different voice.

* StrappedToAnOperatingTable / BoundAndGagged: And [[AndIMustScream used for a lobotomy demonstration]].

* HeKnowsTooMuch: Ann Crook is lobotomized and hidden away in a mental asylum to cover up her marriage with 'Eddy'. And then sights are set on her friends, who were all witnesses to the wedding...

* InstantSedation: Justified, inhaled anesthetics prior to Ann's lobotomy.

* AndIMustScream: Ann BoundAndGagged and used for a lobotomy demonstration.

** Ann Crook is rendered catatonic by being lobotomized, while in the graphic novel she had her thyroid gland damaged/removed. The process was probably changed because the audience might not be aware that loss of the thyroid gland without appropriate drugs ''can'' result in impairment of mental processes - whereas pretty much everyone knows that having a chunk of your brain cut out is almost ''never'' good for you.

* BuryYourGays: Both Liz and Ada meet grisly together not long after being intimate with each other.

* INeedAFreakingDrink: Uttered by one of the prostitutes before heading out for some hooch.

%%* BodyHorror: John Merrick.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The hero [[DidNotGetTheGirl didn't get the girl]] and killed himself. The Ripper evades justice by lobotomy, although that's not necessarily a plus in his case.]]
** BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: On the other hand, Mary Kelly survives and returns to Ireland with Ann's child, safe from Gull and the government.]]

* PragmaticAdaptation: The film's one clever moment was how it efficiently replaced the visual montage of how ordinary people wrote phony letters claiming to be from Jack the Ripper with a quick scene in which the detectives read those letters with each being read with a different voice.

* PreMortemOneLiner: Subverted. Abberline gets his line in ("You're not going to see the 20th century"), then walks towards Gull, raises his gun and ... gets a TapOnTheHead from Sir Charles Warren, [[NoPeripheralVision whom he did not see approaching]].

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* AnachronismStew / ArtisticLicenseBiology: Ann Crook is lobotomized to keep her from spilling the truth. However, lobotomies weren't actually practiced until the 1930s, and the patient was usually awake during the procedure. In the graphic novel, [[spoiler: Gull]] just damaged/removed Anne's thyroid gland.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory / ArtisticLicenseBiology: Ann Crook is lobotomized to keep her from spilling the truth. However, lobotomies weren't actually practiced until the 1930s, and the patient was usually awake during the procedure. In the graphic novel, [[spoiler: Gull]] just damaged/removed Anne's thyroid gland.

* DoublingForLondon: Prague, using backlot sets rather than city streets.

''From Hell'' is a 2001 thriller starring Creator/JohnnyDepp and based on the Creator/AlanMoore comic [[ComicBook/FromHell of the same name]].

''From Hell'' is a 2001 thriller starring Creator/JohnnyDepp and based on the Alan Moore comic [[ComicBook/FromHell of the same name]].

** Creator/JohnnyDepp as Inspector Abberline is more attractive than he's drawn in the comic, where he's based on Robbie Coltrane. Ironically, Coltrane was cast in a different role.

''From Hell'' is a 2001 thriller starring JohnnyDepp and based on the Alan Moore comic [[ComicBook/FromHell of the same name]].

** Ann Crook is rendered catatonic by being lobotomized, while in the graphic novel she had her thyroid gland damaged/removed. The process was probably changed because the audience might not be aware that loss of the thyroid gland without appropriate drugs ''can'' result in impairment of mental processes, where as pretty much everyone knows that having a chunk of your brain cut out is never good for you.

** BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: On the other hand, Mary Kelly survives and returns to Ireland with Ann's child, safe from Gull.]]