At first thought, an English period piece seems an unlikely subject for filmmaking twins Allen and Albert Hughes, authors of such hard-edged urban portraits as Menace II Society, American Pimp and Dead Presidents.

Realize that their Jack the Ripper reworking is more a social study of poverty, crime and the underclass in Victorian London than a horror movie and it makes more sense. Since many movies have come before about the unsolved case of the person or persons who gorily dispatched several street prostitutes in 1888, taking a somewhat different approach must have seemed commercially smart as well.
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Even after 113 years, Jack the Ripper remains an enigmatic, fascinating monster.

For 10 weeks in the fall of 1888, the Ripper sent a shock wave of terror throughout London. He murdered five prostitutes, a crime that could easily have gone unheralded were it not for the way in which he took their lives.
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