From Hell Critic Reviews

What the Hughes brothers have come up with is, to borrow another phrase from that bygone age, a penny dreadful.Read the full review

The movie feels dark, clammy and exhilarating -- it's like belonging to a secret club where you can have a lot of fun but might get into trouble.Read the full review

Sensational and accomplished.Read the full review

It is deeply unpleasant to see women abducted, tortured and eviscerated by a methodical and meticulous butcher.Read the full review

The Hughes boys blow it by burying a fine cast -- Robbie Coltrane as a cop and Ian Holm as a royal sawbones are standouts -- in stock scares, sappy romance and cliches that really are from hell.Read the full review

Mystery skillfully evokes Victorian London's dark depths.Read the full review

So beautifully realized as a mood piece that it takes a while for a slight disappointment to register.Read the full review

With almost as many subplots as corpses, the movie maintains its mild watchability only because the Ripper saga still engrosses.Read the full review

Surprisingly conventional Olde London Towne gaslight mystery, gussied up with some doctored visuals, and an eccentric performance by Johnny Depp.Read the full review