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The Limehouse Golem

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United Kingdom · 2016
1h 49m
Director Juan Carlos Medina
Starring Bill Nighy, Olivia Cooke, Douglas Booth, Daniel Mays
Genre Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Victorian London is gripped with fear as a serial killer is on the loose and leaving cryptic messages written in the blood of his victims. When Scotland Yard assigns the case to Inspector Kildare, he must rely on help from a witness to stop the murders and bring the maniac to justice.

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The Telegraph by

The Limehouse Golem may be hokum, but it’s glorious hokum that brings something fresh to the stale old cadaver of Victorian melodrama.

50

Screen International by Fionnuala Halligan

Director Juan Carlos Medina (Insensible/Painless) fails to muster Golem’s many moving parts, and tension leaks from the film like the blood from one of its many savaged corpses.

40

Empire by Jonathan Pile

A great cast is let down by a script that fails to provide a compelling mystery to solve. Never mind as a big-screen production, this would be disappointing as a BBC mini-series.

80

The Guardian by Jordan Hoffman

There are a lot of twists and turns in the plot, but not all of them are satisfying. What does work are the performances, specifically Cooke and the richly sympathetic character she creates.

80

The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw

It’s an entertainingly bizarre, lurid nightmare with a playfully literary flavour, very Ackroydian, but with hints of Angela Carter and a bit of William Blake.

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