missrouge I watched this movie in a boring afternoon. I was looking for a good horror movie and I found this one. Never saw it before so I decided to give it a try. Molly is in a psychiatric hospital because she think she is Jack the Ripper. Her therapy is not very successful so she decides to go To Prague for an experiment: she will live in a virtual realty. Once in Prague, she met other guys like her. Living with the others is not easy and there's a murderer around. SPOILER ALERTThe guys start to die in the virtual reality and Molly realizes they die in the real world too. She also understands she is the one who created the murderer. She kills herself in order to be free from her demon. So, Molly goes back to the real world and finds out her friends are all dead for real. FINAL COUP DE THEATRE: Molly never left her hospital and all the the people she met are "guests" of this hospital.Dialogues of poor quality, predicted and somehow confused plot, this movie is dripping with D movies, psychological thriller and teen drama. I've wasted an hour and half of my time.

TdSmth5 As the intro credits appear, we see photos and news clippings of Jack the Ripper. Then we see a murdered woman on the street and the girl with the knife who did it.In the present, a female mental institution patient is sitting in front of the institutions director. He asks her how she's doing, she lurches forward and slams a letter opener in his neck.Then she wakes up still sitting there. The director tells her they are out of treatment options but he's going to send her to Prague to undergo an unconventional therapy.As soon as she gets there, she gets something implanted in her brain. During the procedure she has visions of the Ripper. When it's over the weird Dr. gives her a tour of the castle and she meets the other patients- a forgettable bunch. During dinner they all attack each other. Oddly enough the castle walls are covered in weapons. The Dr. vaguely explains the procedure and that it will involve sleep and risky actions during sleep but there's no danger because they'll wake her up if things become too dangerous.When the prettiest of the girls goes to bed she sees the ripper. She escapes out the window but slips and hangs for her life. Our girl comes to the rescue but the other girl falls to her death and ends up impaled on the fence. Our girl wakes up and sees the crew trying to resuscitate the "impaled" girl who's sleeping in the next bed. When she wakes up again later the girl is gone and the Dr. tells her she was let go, that treatment wasn't helping her. She of course freaks out, but oddly enough doesn't show an injury she sustained while trying to rescue the other girl.Now all the other kids start seeing the ripper who's after them. The Dr. who can monitor all this through the implants notices that something is wrong, but can't fix it. Our girl notices that the ripper and she are connected and she also notices that she has some type of an influence over the experiment. She'll have to confront the ripper and the Dr. and there's a twist at the end.Ripper 2 unfortunately sets itself in the world of dreams and mental patients, which rarely makes for a satisfying storyline. It's a bit below B-movie level. It doesn't look very good, has too loud sound effects, some cheesy visual effects, a weak cast. The story had potential had it focused more on the ripper rather than on dreams and experiments. But then the ripper angle isn't explained very well either. I did like the ending though because it brings us back to reality. For a horror movie, the death scenes aren't impressive. There should have been more gore. The movie does have some good nudity though, but it too isn't very well filmed. Why this movie needed two directors is a mystery. More should have been done with the setting in Prague. Ripper 2 could have been a decent B-movie but it just doesn't deliver.

Scarecrow-88 A group of deeply troubled teens take part in an experimental "humanizing" program once they are all sedated. It's a means of facing the horrid evil that plagues their delusional fantasies, using serial killer, Molly(Erin Karpluk)as the catalyst. The program seems to hinge on how Molly reacts to the virtual world created once they together are induced in a deep sleep. The terrifying element is that the evil inside Molly indeed separates and for the first time she is normal without the evil. But, the birthright and genes of being a descendant of Jack the Ripper wish to reunite with Molly and it is represented by a hulking figure covered with a giant Grim Reaper-esquire cloak. Each member who participated in the program are being annihilated by the evil manifestation within the dream state and when you are killed in this realm, you die in reality. Will Molly be able to deny the evil which wants to reconnect? The doctor behind this project, with all it's flaws, is Samuel Wiesser(Richard Bremmer)who honestly believes he can remove what ills those who are not normal members of society.The flick basically rips off A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET with a cloaked Ripper in place of Freddy absent the goofy macabre wisecracks. The film is ambitious enough, but doesn't have the budget or smarts to hold together. The premise, though, comes off rather silly and confusing. It's not gory enough and the ending really only fuels the incoherency of the whole picture. The film is just too herky-jerky for it's own good. Does have atmosphere to spare, but that's pretty much it.

Simon Richardson OK, OK this is far from the best horror film out there, and is definitely not as good as the first Ripper film, but its not that bad if you enjoy slasher flicks. Trust me, i've got the 'Horror Channel' here in the UK, and i've seen some very very poor horror films lately to compare this against. Yes the 'virtual reality' part of the plot is a bit stale and the 'twist' ending is one of the oldest around, but very little in the slasher genre is new these days. However the killer looked and sounded cool, and the fact that is was in fact Mollys 'dark side' that was stalking her in virtuality was something new in my book.The worst part of the film was the sex dungeon sequence in the nightclub, even as a bloke, and therefor a fan of T&A, it just seemed stuck on for the sake of it, and could of been heavily edited to fit the plot without coming across as gratuitous. A personal mention goes to actress Myfanwy Waring who unfortunately gets killed early on in the film, as its good to hear a gorgeous Welsh accent in a film.Verdict - If you liked Ripper, and like slasher films, give it a watch (if you can find it) and enjoy it for what it is. 6 out of 10