Ripper 2: Letter from Within

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Ripper 2: Letter from Within
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Directed byJonas Quastel
Lloyd A. Simandl
Written byJohn A. Curtis
Pat Bermel
Produced byJonas Quastel
Starring Erin Karpluk
Nicolas Irons
CinematographyJohn Drake
Edited byDavid Campling
Music by Peter Allen
Distributed byVelocity Home Entertainment
Release date
  • 3 August 2004 (2004-08-03)
Running time
89 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Ripper 2 (US title: Ripper 2: Letter from Within) is a 2004 British horror film directed by Jonas Quastel, starring Erin Karpluk and Nicolas Irons, and is a sequel to Ripper . It was written and produced by John A. Curtis and Pat Bermel. [1]

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Plot

The director of an asylum offers to the serial killer Molly Keller a chance to be submitted to a pilot unconventional experiment in Prague, in the Weisser Institute. Molly accepts, and she travels to the clinic, where Dr. Samuel Wiesser developed a treatment using a virtual world, and Molly and deranged youngsters would be trial subjects. However, something does not work well in the experiment, and when the patients die in their trip, the same happens in the real world.

Cast

Reception

Horror site Vegan Voorhees said, "Even with two directors and four scribes, the creative team fail to even muster the most basic of chills." [2]

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References

  1. "Ripper 2: Letter from within (2004) - IMDb". IMDb .
  2. "RETURN TO SENDER". Vegan Voorhees. 26 May 2010. Retrieved 13 September 2020.