The Limehouse Golem (2016)
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 109m
Director: Juan Carlos Medina
Cast: Bill Nighy, Olivia Cooke, Douglas Booth, Eddie Marsan, María Valverde, Daniel Mays
Synopsis:
1880s London: a police inspector is handed the poisoned chalice of an unsolved series of murders, but becomes taken up with the case of a former actress accused of poisoning her husband.
Review:
Deploying its secrety gay central character and company of performers to point up the parlous state of women's rights at the time, this latest in a veritable litany of Ripper-inspired horror stories also uses its theatrical setting to underscore time-honoured analogies between role-playing and murderous deception. The googly of the impotent playwright who cannot get a play completed, a device often employed for comedy, is but one in a series of cleverly voiced flashbacks to murders that is designed to leave us disoriented. Whether you spot the twist before it comes will depend on your own degree of twistedness, but will not spoil your enjoyment of the period mise-en-scène, or of Nighy's magnificently reined-in performance.
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 109m
Director: Juan Carlos Medina
Cast: Bill Nighy, Olivia Cooke, Douglas Booth, Eddie Marsan, María Valverde, Daniel Mays
Synopsis:
1880s London: a police inspector is handed the poisoned chalice of an unsolved series of murders, but becomes taken up with the case of a former actress accused of poisoning her husband.
Review:
Deploying its secrety gay central character and company of performers to point up the parlous state of women's rights at the time, this latest in a veritable litany of Ripper-inspired horror stories also uses its theatrical setting to underscore time-honoured analogies between role-playing and murderous deception. The googly of the impotent playwright who cannot get a play completed, a device often employed for comedy, is but one in a series of cleverly voiced flashbacks to murders that is designed to leave us disoriented. Whether you spot the twist before it comes will depend on your own degree of twistedness, but will not spoil your enjoyment of the period mise-en-scène, or of Nighy's magnificently reined-in performance.
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 109m
Director: Juan Carlos Medina
Cast: Bill Nighy, Olivia Cooke, Douglas Booth, Eddie Marsan, María Valverde, Daniel Mays
Synopsis:
1880s London: a police inspector is handed the poisoned chalice of an unsolved series of murders, but becomes taken up with the case of a former actress accused of poisoning her husband.
Review:
Deploying its secrety gay central character and company of performers to point up the parlous state of women's rights at the time, this latest in a veritable litany of Ripper-inspired horror stories also uses its theatrical setting to underscore time-honoured analogies between role-playing and murderous deception. The googly of the impotent playwright who cannot get a play completed, a device often employed for comedy, is but one in a series of cleverly voiced flashbacks to murders that is designed to leave us disoriented. Whether you spot the twist before it comes will depend on your own degree of twistedness, but will not spoil your enjoyment of the period mise-en-scène, or of Nighy's magnificently reined-in performance.