Jill Rips

For the theory that Jack the Ripper was female, see Jack the Ripper suspects § Further theories.
Jill Rips
Official DVD cover
Directed byAnthony Hickox
Written byGareth Wardell
Kevin Bernhardt
Produced byJim Wynorski
Tracee Stanley
Damian Lee
StarringDolph Lundgren
Danielle Brett
CinematographyDavid Pelletier
Edited byBrett Hedlund
Music byThomas Barquee
Steve Gurevitch
Production
companies
Phoenician Entertainment
Franchise Pictures
Distributed bySony Pictures Home Entertainment
Release date
  • 2000 (2000)
Running time
94 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Jill Rips (also known as Jill the Ripper and Tied Up[1]) is a 2000 American film directed by Anthony Hickox starring Dolph Lundgren, based on a 1987 novel by Scottish writer Frederic Lindsay.

Plot

In 1977 Boston, Matt Sorenson, a former police officer who moved across country, returns for the funeral of his high-powered younger brother, Michael. His body is found washed ashore, tied up in a manner suggesting bondage play, with a brutal series of cuts and stabs, some made after death. Intent on finding his brother's killer, Sorenson initially believes a major construction magnate, 'Big Jim' Conway, whom Michael opposed on a subway project, is responsible. He also finds himself drawn to Michael's widow, Irene, who was married to him for six months. After other men are found murdered in a similar fashion, and that they had been photographed with a masked sex worker, the investigation focuses on her, the media branding her "Jill the Ripper." Matt reluctantly immerses himself in the underground bondage and discipline scene, and discovers what has linked his brother's murder, Conway, and Irene together.

Cast

  • Dolph Lundgren as Matt Sorenson
  • Danielle Brett as Irene
  • Richard Fitzpatrick as Eddie
  • Kristi Angus as Frances
  • Charles Seixas as "Big Jim" Conway
  • Sandi Ross as Mary O.
  • Greg Ellwand as Peerse
  • Victor Pedtrchenko as Joe Jujavia
  • Kylie Bax as Serena

Release

Home media

After a TV premiere on HBO under the alternate title Tied Up in January 2000, the movie was released on DVD on July 4, 2000 by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment as Jill the Ripper (while keeping its original title Jill Rips in other countries).[2] In February 2024, Scream Factory released it as a limited run BluRay under its original Jill Rips title, as a website exclusive.

Reception

Novel reviews

The novel had been described by the Today programme as 'harrowing, but [its] grim, poetic vision makes it the best novel of its kind for years'. The Sunday Times said that 'violent and vicious and brutal, Lindsay's unsparing tale beds down with the imagination like a succubus'. Daily Express called it 'tautly and skillfully written—a genuine, can't-put-it-down, turn-off-the-telly-read'.

References

  1. ^ "JILL RIPS / Jill the Ripper - 2000". Archived from the original on 2013-09-20. Retrieved 2013-12-19.
  2. ^ Jill the Ripper (2000) Dolph Lundgren


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