Ripper 2: Letter from Within

August. 03,2004      
Rating:
3.4
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Serial killer Molly Keller, along with a few insane youngsters agrees to be a trail subject for an unconventional experiment. But, the experiment turns unsuccessful and the subjects begin to die.

Erin Karpluk as  Molly Keller
Nicholas Irons as  Erich Goeth
Daniel Coonan as  Grant Jessup
Colin Lawrence as  Roberto Edwards
Andrea Miltner as  Marya
Richard Bremmer as  Dr. Weisser
Vladimira Pitelova as  Dominatrix (uncredited)
Marie Veckova as  Bound Schoolgirl (uncredited)
Julia Crow as  Dominatrix in Red (uncredited)

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Reviews

Reptileenbu
2004/08/03

Did you people see the same film I saw?

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RipDelight
2004/08/04

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

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TrueHello
2004/08/05

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

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Geraldine
2004/08/06

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

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missrouge
2004/08/07

I watched this movie in a boring afternoon. I was looking for a good horror movie and I found this one. Never saw it before so I decided to give it a try. Molly is in a psychiatric hospital because she think she is Jack the Ripper. Her therapy is not very successful so she decides to go To Prague for an experiment: she will live in a virtual realty. Once in Prague, she met other guys like her. Living with the others is not easy and there's a murderer around. SPOILER ALERTThe guys start to die in the virtual reality and Molly realizes they die in the real world too. She also understands she is the one who created the murderer. She kills herself in order to be free from her demon. So, Molly goes back to the real world and finds out her friends are all dead for real. FINAL COUP DE THEATRE: Molly never left her hospital and all the the people she met are "guests" of this hospital.Dialogues of poor quality, predicted and somehow confused plot, this movie is dripping with D movies, psychological thriller and teen drama. I've wasted an hour and half of my time.

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TdSmth5
2004/08/08

As the intro credits appear, we see photos and news clippings of Jack the Ripper. Then we see a murdered woman on the street and the girl with the knife who did it.In the present, a female mental institution patient is sitting in front of the institutions director. He asks her how she's doing, she lurches forward and slams a letter opener in his neck.Then she wakes up still sitting there. The director tells her they are out of treatment options but he's going to send her to Prague to undergo an unconventional therapy.As soon as she gets there, she gets something implanted in her brain. During the procedure she has visions of the Ripper. When it's over the weird Dr. gives her a tour of the castle and she meets the other patients- a forgettable bunch. During dinner they all attack each other. Oddly enough the castle walls are covered in weapons. The Dr. vaguely explains the procedure and that it will involve sleep and risky actions during sleep but there's no danger because they'll wake her up if things become too dangerous.When the prettiest of the girls goes to bed she sees the ripper. She escapes out the window but slips and hangs for her life. Our girl comes to the rescue but the other girl falls to her death and ends up impaled on the fence. Our girl wakes up and sees the crew trying to resuscitate the "impaled" girl who's sleeping in the next bed. When she wakes up again later the girl is gone and the Dr. tells her she was let go, that treatment wasn't helping her. She of course freaks out, but oddly enough doesn't show an injury she sustained while trying to rescue the other girl.Now all the other kids start seeing the ripper who's after them. The Dr. who can monitor all this through the implants notices that something is wrong, but can't fix it. Our girl notices that the ripper and she are connected and she also notices that she has some type of an influence over the experiment. She'll have to confront the ripper and the Dr. and there's a twist at the end.Ripper 2 unfortunately sets itself in the world of dreams and mental patients, which rarely makes for a satisfying storyline. It's a bit below B-movie level. It doesn't look very good, has too loud sound effects, some cheesy visual effects, a weak cast. The story had potential had it focused more on the ripper rather than on dreams and experiments. But then the ripper angle isn't explained very well either. I did like the ending though because it brings us back to reality. For a horror movie, the death scenes aren't impressive. There should have been more gore. The movie does have some good nudity though, but it too isn't very well filmed. Why this movie needed two directors is a mystery. More should have been done with the setting in Prague. Ripper 2 could have been a decent B-movie but it just doesn't deliver.

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Claudio Carvalho
2004/08/09

The director of an asylum offers to the serial killer Molly Keller (Erin Karpluk) a chance to be submitted to a pilot unconventional experiment in Prague, in the Weisser Institute. Molly accepts, and she travels to the clinic, where Dr. Samuel Wiesser (Richard Bremmer) developed a treatment using a virtual world, and Molly and deranged youngsters would be trial subjects. However, something does not work well in the experiment, and when the patients die in their trip, the same happens in the real world. The explanation is a huge twist point in the very end of the story."Ripper 2: Letter from Within" is not so bad as indicated in IMDb User Rating. The ham actor Richard Bremmer is very funny with his horrible acting; there are many beautiful women and breasts; the death scenes, the special effects and the atmosphere are great for a B-movie; and the story has a great plot point in the end that makes a difference. I respect the other viewers' opinion, but I liked this slash movie. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): "Ripper 2"

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Dr. Gore
2004/08/10

*SPOILER ALERT* *SPOILER ALERT*You know, it's important in B-movies to deliver the B-movie thrills. That should be pretty obvious. Cheap thrills man. That's what it's all about. Some breasts here, a little blood there. "Ripper 2" pretends to give you all of this but then gleefully pulls the rug out from under you.I thought I was watching a movie about a female Jack the Ripper but apparently I was wrong. The filmmakers must have watched "The Matrix" a few dozen times and became infatuated with the concept of make believe worlds. A girl checks into an insane asylum. She thinks she's related to Jack the Ripper. A doctor wants to mess with her mind and screw up the movie. She says yes please. The rest of the movie has her running from a grim reaper-looking maniac, (or is he?), while a lot of nothing happens to people that may not exist.If it all sounds confusing, don't worry. As long as you remember not to watch this movie, you'll have nothing to worry about.

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