The Limehouse Golem

[LordSpode1879]

Awesome can't believe I haven't heard about this till now!!

[Doug ex-em4]

Has anyone seen this yet? It's on at the local cinema and the synopsis of the story makes it sound pretty much like the same tale that was featured in the last 2 series of Ripper St.

Doug

[Steve F]

Bit of a "From Hell" vibe about it, right down to the Hawksmoor churches reference. Did Ackroyd copy Moore, was it the other way around, or just blind coincidence, I wonder? Can't remember when the respective books came out.

Just for the record, Peter Ackroyd's "Hawksmoor" came out in 1985 and "Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem" in 1994.  He'd been weaving fictions around London's history and historical characters at least since "The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde" (1983).

Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell originally serialised "From Hell" between 1989 and 1996.  I've always felt that Moore's major stylistic influence here was Iain Sinclair, particularly "White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings" (1987), but also the "psychogeography" approach in general.  The Duke of Clarence/William Gull conspiracy theory is, of course, taken wholesale from Stephen Knight's "Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution" (1976).  Moore is basically a demiurge - he's great at drawing out implications of other people's work and at narrative structure, but I don't think he's had an original idea in his life.

[dinohunterpoa]

Moore is basically a demiurge - he's great at drawing out implications of other people's work and at narrative structure, but I don't think he's had an original idea in his life.

Batman: The Killing Joke (1988) ?  

[FierceKitty]

Saw it yesterday. Don't bother.

[Doug ex-em4]

Saw it yesterday. Don't bother.

That's all I wanted to know

Thanks

Doug

[Captain Blood]

Apologies for the Threadomancy... in the UK this movie is now on Netflix. Just watched it. Actually I thought it was rather good. Well made, lots of evocative gothic smoggy gloom counterbalanced by the gaudy yet grim interior of the music hall, and some very nice performances all round. A few good twists too. I don’t remember much about the book - I read it when it was first published, long long ago, but I recall it being a bit dense - the movie felt a bit simpler. Not a bad thing. Anyway, if you’ve got Netflix, you can judge for yourself.

[OSHIROmodels]

How about dvd for those is us that do?

[Captain Blood]

Dunno. But if it’s out on Netflix, and it was released in the cinema almost 2 years ago, I’d guess it’s also available on dvd.

[OSHIROmodels]

Okie doke

[Thunderchicken]

Thanks Richard. Just added it to my watch list. Will indulge next weekend.