Movies Inspired By Jack The Ripper

Things are about to get weird with this one. "Time After Time" is a sci-fi experience with Jack the Ripper as the villain, and it's a classic. This movie scored an 87% on Rotten Tomatoes, and as an added bonus, it brings Jack the Ripper story into the modern days of 1979 when the film was released, literally.

The storyline for the movie is fun. H.G. Wells (the character, not the real guy) builds a time machine with the intention of fleeing to some future paradise. Wells, if you don't know, wrote the classic novel "The Time Machine" just a few years after the White Chapel murders, so it plays perfectly into the theme. Unfortunately for the author, the Ripper hijacks his machine before he can use it and skips town to 1979's San Francisco, as The Hollywood Reporter records. This, of course, explains why the Ripper was never actually caught. It's not easy to catch someone who's almost a century in the future, but Wells tries anyway.

The writer follows the Ripper to then-modern times and has a heck of a go at adjusting to all of the future technology, which is maddening because he invented a freaking time machine, and you'd think a 80-something-year advancement wouldn't throw him off too much. Anyway, the Ripper is doing his thing while Wells has teamed up with a contemporary woman to help catch the villain. This sci-fi movie has a near perfect blend of comedy and mystery. It's great.

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