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Ripper (2001)
Quite possibly the worst horror film ever made
I registered on IMDb just to warn people not to waste even a minute of their lives on this film. It is simply the perfect storm of bad writing, bad dialogue, bad acting, and the most predictable storyline ever. I am a fan of even some really bad horror, as there are usually some worthwhile traits, but Ripper took all semblance of a coherent story and threw it out the window. There's bad acting that is so deliberately bad that it's amusing, and then there's the compilation of actors in this film that one can tell are actually making an attempt, but failing miserably. Considering their subsequent large body of work, the 4th grade level acting can likely be blamed on the truly horrid dialogue they are forced to attempt to make sound decent.
I would tell you to just fast-forward to the kill-scenes, but most of them are not worth the effort (was that apple-red paint used for blood?) Once the music video of the girl running through the city hit the screen, I couldn't take it any more, but forced myself to endure this drivel just to verify the "twist" ending that I had predicted within the first 5 minutes. The best use of this film is as the low-bar by which to gauge all future movies. Forget stars, my scale for horror movies is now a rating system going from Ripper to Evil Dead.