Hands of the Ripper

Jack the Ripper’s daughter is seemingly possessed by her dad’s murderous spirit, fifteen years after she witnesses her father kill her mother before her infant eyes., Gruesome chiller in which the daughter of Jack the Ripper becomes convinced that her father’s evil spirit has driven her to a series of grisly murders. She seeks the help of a psychiatrist who is an early follower of the Viennese physician Sigmund Freud. One of the later entries in the Hammer Studios canon., In Edwardian London, the daughter of Jack the Ripper is haunted by the memory of her evil father murdering her mother and may be uncontrollably emulating him., This clever reworking of the “Jack the Ripper” legend stars Angharad Rees as Anna, daughter of the infamous serial killer. Believing that she’s being directed from beyond the grave to become a murderer herself, Anna seeks out help from Freudian scholar John Pritchard (Eric Porter). Evidently, the treatment doesn’t take, and a series of gory killings result. TV prints of Hands of the Ripper include an unnecessary “psychiatric explanation” of what transpires. It probably goes without saying that the film was packaged by Hammer Studios., Hammer horror starring Angharad Rees as Anna, the daughter of Jack the Ripper, who as a young child witnessed the murder of her mother by her father. Seemingly possessed by the spirit of her father, while in a trance she continues his murderous killing spree but has no recollection of the events afterwards. A sympathetic psychiatrist (Eric Porter) takes her in and is convinced he can cure her condition. Soon, however, he regrets his decision…