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This
is the first full-length feature film about
Peter Sutcliffe, the serial killer known as the
Yorkshire Ripper who went on a five-year murder
spree in and around Bradford, Yorkshire, in the
late Seventies during which he murdered 13 women
and attempted to murder a further seven. Often,
the scenes of his life and his belief that
voices were guiding him to carry out his
murderous are surreal and mystical, yet he was
an otherwise 'normal' man who lived in the
gritty and rather grim loking streets of
Yorkshire. The
film provides a portrait of the man but it never
really goes anywhere 'explaining' why he carried
out his actions and what made him any different
from anyone else. I'd like to have seen
different points of view about his behaviour
gathered from the past and present. Overall the
film provides a powerful impresion about his
impact on life in Yorkshire in the late
Seventies. Walt Kissack is excellent as Peter
who neatly portrays the man without making him
into a screaming monster or a sympathetic victim
of his psychological condition.
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