Faculty of Horror

Episode 97. No Future: Jack the Ripper in The Lodger (1927) and From Hell (2001)

06.29.2021 - By Andrea Subissati and Alexandra WestPlay

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The fog of Victorian London settles on Alex and Andrea as they dive into “Ripperology”: the facts, fiction and shadow cast by Jack the Ripper over our culture. By examining how the figure is depicted in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lodger and The Hughes Brothers’ From Hell, we can begin to untangle the history of more […]

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