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Razors
Razors: The Return of Jack the Ripper
UK 2016
produced by Ian Powell, Martin Myers (executive) for Magic Mask Pictures
directed by Ian Powell, Karl Ward
starring Kelby Keenan, Thomas Thoroe, Josh Myers, Ian Weichardt, Jack Brown, Kunjue Li, Georgia Maguire, Andrew Shire, Vincent De Paul, Khan Bonfils, Iulia Benze, Adam J. Englander, Anthony Styles, Evie Rose Carricker, Victoria George, Jessamine Sargent
story by Ian Powell, screenplay by Ian Powell, Karl Ward, music by Ken Watanabe (II), Vladimir Joassaint, special makeup effects by Anna Cichon
Jack the Ripper
review by Mike Haberfelner
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It was supposed to be a workshop to write the perfect horror movie when
professor Wise (Thomas Thoroe) has invited six (wannabe) horror
scriptwriters (Kelby
Keenan, Josh
Myers, Ian
Weichardt, Jack
Brown, Kunjue
Li, Georgia
Maguire) from all over the spectrum, from the sceptic to the
empath to the true believer, to one of the spookiest place in town to
write the perfect horror screenplay. Tensions soon mount among the sextet
though as troubled soul Ruth (Kelby Keenan) claims to have brought the
actual knives of Jack the Ripper, while the ubiquituous sceptic Zack (Jack
Brown) tries to tear her down, only just shying away from calling her an
attention whore. The next morning, Ruth wakes up from a horrible nightmare
that has shown her Jack the Ripper (Andrew Shire) among them, while Zack
is gone, apparently with parts of the script Ruth has written. Professor
Wise claims Zack has just left the premises, but nobody really believes
him, and the more our heroes investigate, the more they have to come to
the conclusion that Ruth's nightmares might have been more than just that,
and when they find out that Wise and his helpers might have locked them in
with something quite deadly, that doesn't quiet anyone down. Now of
course, Wise has an ulterior motive with his scriptwriters, one which
doesn't involve a horror screenplay, and Jack the Ripper might have indeed
to do with it ... Now I will be quite honest with you, Razors
isn't always quite stringent in its storytelling, at times even seems to
abandon or randomly pick up narrative strands as it moves along - but that
somehow works for the movie here, as it intentionally shatters walls
between "the real world" and the realm of nightmares, and indeed
following a rather dreamlike (as in at times illogical) narrative style,
the film only comes across as much more nightmarish in feel. And add to
this a very atmospheric direction and a bunch of competent performances,
and you've simply got yourself a pretty cool piece of horror!
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Robots and rats,
demons and potholes, cuddly toys and shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill Your Bones to is all of that.
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