I saw this solid, if not entirely successful, Hammer flick the other night and quite enjoyed it. The story picks up around twenty years after the ripper murders and focuses on a young girl who becomes somewhat of a test subject for a psychoanalyst; a girl who has murderous inclinations that stem for her childhood, when Jack The Ripper—her father—brutally butchered her mother.
It's tightly-paced and the attention to period detail is fine but there is an underlining ludicrousness that leads to an ultimately unsatisfying whole. The Carlton DVD I watched presents the film in it's original ratio and is anamorphic, though there are some compression artefacts that appear from time to time.
