I love how all the Jack The Ripper spin offs are basically Creepypasta fiction with substantial budgets.

The idea of the other murders being copycats is somehow creepier than if it was all the same guy.

The sad thing is most of the victims weren't actually prostitutes, just homeless women in the wrong place at the wrong time. They were mislabled because of prejudice. There's a podcast called 'Bad Women: The Ripper Retold" were historian Hallie Rubenhold talks about the women's actual lives. She's done a lot of research on them and it's truly fascinating.

My fav thing about From Hell is when Alan Moore was asked if he actually believed the conspiracy theory and his response was basically: “absolutely not but isn’t it a great story?”

Then there's the Black Butler version, where Jack the Ripper was a female doctor who couldn't give birth and was jealous of her victims who were prostitutes who came in for abortions. (actually there's a lot of versions in anime)

What we need is a Bollywood adaption in which the first 2.5 hours are about the first victim, who wants to quit prostitution since she found her real love. Of course there's a lot of dancing.

Re-watching this just reminds me how much I miss loose canon. I know Lindsay really didn't want to go back to doing the Nostalgia Chick but I really hope she works on this show again.

"ominous shots of feet in the dark" Quentin Tarantino: * likes and subscribes *

So you can sum it up with: There was NEVER a good movie about Jack the Ripper.....

I'd say that the immortalizing of Jack the Ripper in the first place also has a lot to do with the fact that it was around time that newspapers in Britain REALLY started sensationalizing news and Jack the Ripper was the perfect story, as pointed out, taking it up to a whole new level. There was also the growing popular craze of "armchair detectives" as popularized by Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, with many people feeling they could help with solving the murder by just intellect and said news, writing numerous letters to the investigators, leading to all sorts of people being accused and questioned, including one famous actor who was seen as suspicious because at the time of the murders he was doing a very convincing and chilling sell-out performance of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

I know I'm late to the party, but it's worth mentioning that you missed Sanctuary, a fantasy/sci-fi show that featured Jack the Ripper as an immortal teleporting proto-vampire who was driven mad by his powers and (spoiler alert) reforms and becomes a quasi-protagonist. Yeah, it's a weird show... I believe produced by the Canadian Space Network (which means it likely aired on SyFy in the US), and featured a boatload of cast members from the Stargate series. I realize likely nobody's going to read this, but... y'know... immortal teleporting proto-vampre.

So you're telling me there's a version of Jack The Ripper that is a knife that possesses people and the person who it possessed defeated the knife by giving it syphilis?

I'm surprised Doctor Who has never fought Jack the Ripper except in one comic

What if Jack the Ripper was just a bunch of angry hamsters dressed up as a person? And they killed because their owners didn't give them an wheel to run around in?

I was really expecting that one of the Jack the Ripper vs Sherlock stories ended up with Watson being the culprit

Last year I took a course at uni called "London: Society and Popular Culture: c. 1800-2000" where we had to write a 10-12 page essay at the end. Our teacher told us that we could choose Jack the Ripper if we really, really wanted to but that we ought to keep in mind that he loathed the whole thing. All the while he says this, there's this strained smile on his face, as though he's barely keeping the contempt and anger in place. It was glorious :)

"The illuminati doesn't exist" ...Sounds like something someone in the illuminati would say

but you missed the best crazy jack the ripper theory of him being the Loch Ness Monster.

I now have a burning desire for Loose Canon: Sherlock Holmes

....okay I'm that person. Vorgon is Star Trek, Vorlon is Babylon 5. And Vogon is Hitchhiker's Guide. I guess they're great alien-ey syllables.

I love how, in Time After Time, H.G. Wells THE WRITER is also someone who invented Time Travel. Which is certainly a thing writers can do. And they don't, like, *change* Well's backstory in the movie! He is explicitly a writer and reporter in the film!

One of the reasons why I like From Hell, is the fact that the treat Jack the Rippers victims as people. Most films depicting him either try to make this sympathetic, by explaining why it wasn't his fault, or focus os much on him that the women are just a side note.

Has there been a Sherlock Holmes Loose Canon yet? So many adaptations (one of the most oft-interpreted fictional characters in literary history if I’m not mistaken), it would make a for a pretty dense episode.

Thank god this video was made before Fate/Apocrypha gave us the wonderful batshit interpretation of jack the ripper being the souls of london's dead beggar children coalescing into the boy of a psychotic loli in a thong

Ted Cruz was Jack the Ripper

You should have totally included the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure version of him. He's just minding his business, committing the White Chapel Murders, when he's accosted by a burnt up vampire, who turns him into one of his zombie-vampire minions. Jack the Ripper then goes after the protagonists, decapitates the driver and horses of their buggy, hides in one of the horse's necks, and then bursts out, attacking the main characters by shooting his knives out of his arms. The mentor figure of the group fends Jack off by attacking him with razor-sharp discs made out of wine, and then sends his apprentice off to finish him off, under the condition that he do so while holding a goblet of wine without spilling a drop. Said apprentice eventually destroys the Ripper by using sunlight kung-fu that simultaneously melts and explodes him. All while keeping the wine perfectly balanced within the glass. The whole thing makes way more sense in context.

17:42 We live in a society - Jack the Joker the Ripper

I would absolutely watch a movie where Bilbo Baggins is actually the Jack the Ripper of the Shire.

Lmao The Star Trek one was hilarious. It just looked like a particularly angry old man about to be taken to a home "I'll kill all of yooouuu" Ok, dad, time to go

Loose canon for Romeo + Juliet? Please please?

I think, Lindsay, that you should do a loose canon or a mini-canon on Dorian Gray. You could discuss the different interpretations of his character, and how his sins are portrayed by time period, and the controversy it caused when the novel was first written.

It's a shame Lindsay doesn't dip into Japanese media or comics all that often, which give us Ripper depictions like those in the Fate series and, my personal favorite, Jack from the Luther Strode series.

way too many comments asking "what about the anime and video games" seems clear this is live-action focused.

Hi Lindsay!! You should do a loose cannon on Peter Pan! Mostly because I want you to mention the 2003 version, which NO ONE mentions but i think is probably one of the best iterations of a tired character!

Weird loose canon of Jekyll and Hyde. Come on, you mentioned it in this.

One of my favorite Ripper-inspired appearances--on the show Primeval they travel back to the 1800s where "Spring-heeled Jack" is going off a-murderin'. The culprit turns out to be a time-displaced velociraptor. Time travel, y'all.

Have you ever considered doing a Loose Canon on the Christian God ? Morgan Freeman, Alannis Morrissette, the Supernatural version... it could be really fun.

Jack The Ripper's made some WEIRD appearances in video games... Some of the more notable examples: -Ripper is a 1996 FMV point-n-click mystery (most remembered for its use of Christopher Walken and Blue Osyter Cult) that takes Jack The Ripper to the world of cyberpunk as a copycat killer is using virtual reality to murder people... Yes, really... -Duke Nukem: Zero Hour is the second instance of gaming's favorite chauvinist doing time travel, with a quarter of game taking place in Victorian London, with of course a sub-boss battle against Jack, with Duke proclaiming "Who better to rip a new one?" -World Heroes 2's interpretation of Jack The Ripper is one that needs to be seen to believed (Imagine if Freddy Krueger got really into the 70's punk scene). -Shadow Man, a third-person shooter based off a comic focused around voodoo, opens with Jack being recruited by the game's main villain and being one of the game's final bosses. -The Order 1886 identifies Lord William Hastings as the true identity of Jack The Ripper... ...and that he's also a vampire.

i died at the italian- spanish "erotic" movie... we have SO MANY movies like that in italy. they are an actual sub-genre called Sexy Italian Comedy (commedia sexy all'italiana). Anyway, what about the WHITECHAPEL bbc series of 2009? The first season was about a copycat of jack the ripper and one of the characters (and the first suspect) was an expert on JTR, so much that he did history tours

There's also Gotham by Gaslight and Fate Apocrypha's depictions of Jack.

70s horror films were not nice to women. Except Jamie Lee Curtis. She got to live.

From Hell (the book by Alan Moore) is exceptional and deserves comment here.

So sad to see the 'Evil Secret Trans-Woman' motif popping up as often as it still does.

I have to say that I really like the version in Babylon 5. Not necessarily the alien abduction part, but how Sebastian ("Jack") is portrayed (Wayne Alexander is really menacing in that role, and he adds a creepy note of Sebastian not being completely convinced that he was wrong), as well as his punishment; finding the person/-s actually doing what Sebastian thought he was doing. Also, I like the fact that even after finding "An honest man, willing to die for all the wrong reasons", a version of the "third principle of sentient life" (a concept that permeates the show; "the capacity for self-sacrifice, the conscious ability to override evolution and self-preservation for a cause, a friend, a loved one"), he's still not sure that the Vorlons will let him die. His punishment may turn out to be without end.

I think the kind of "evil spirit" portion on this could be down to a cross over with another 'thing' called Spring Heeled Jack who was basically just the demon creature who could jump amazingly high and terrorised people. I doubt it really existed but I think at times it has been amalgamated with Jack the Ripper.

Before I've even watched the video I know it's going to be great! I look forward to your content all the time and it's often amongst the best videos I'll watch in a week and stuff - and your recent run of videos (9/11, Hercules, Hillary Clinton etc) just go to show the quality and excellence they're made with. It might not mean a lot from one person, but just know the videos you have done are outstanding and make me happy, at least, and that I don't care how long it takes you to make them/wait time between videos - as the care and effort you put in make for a terrific final product. Now, to enjoy this Loose Canon. :)

"The Illuminati isn't real." Illuminati confirmed.

I watched the one with Klaus Kinski as the Ripper. It was even more uncomfortable than most other Kinski movies.

Great work, Lindsay! I had no idea there had been so many depictions of Jack the Ripper, I only knew the one from The Simpsons.

What about Jack the Ripper from _Jojo's Bizarre Adventure_?

I have no idea how outlandish these interpretations of Jack The Ripper became throughout the years. I would rather watch an interpretation of Jack The Ripper without the strange nonsense. Maybe with the victims' stories being heard and more focused.

And then Jack the ripper came out of a horse But seriously, I was dissapointed by the lack of JoJo ripper.

YAAASS! The opening is back! I feel like "They're trying to take away our England guns" is a phrase I need to use more in conversation

Yay! I've been waiting for this one.

My favorite theory is that Jack the Ripper was a woman. I know it’s completely untrue, but it’s just fun to think that a woman was able to get away with it because they think that “A WoMaN CaNnOt mUrDeR”

woah! that was kinda weird! hearing you say “lake havasu city arizona” was weird considering that i live there occasionally!!!! and that ive been on that bridge!! i dont know but that was pretty neat!

Thanks for all the years of content, I've been watching since way back in the nostalgia chick days and have always really enjoyed your content.

Your work is super cool and I always want to see more of it! Excited about more video essays, but I can be patient.

Incidentally, that Sherlock Holmes V.S Jack the Ripper video game? It's actually a marvelously researched and pretty respectful take on the whole Jack the Ripper thing. It may be a bit spoiler-y to state this, but it does not include any stupid conspiratorial nonsense, nor does it leap into the supernatural. It gives a reasonable explanation for the killings and grounds them and the entire investigation well within reality, not skimping on the gory details while also not slipping into overwrought sensationalism. While far from one of the best games ever made (it's a pretty typical point and click game with some odd puzzles but very neat investigative bits and it isn't the greatest graphically, but that's to be expected from a small studio), it is probably one of the best fictional depictions of the Ripper murders ever, while staying pretty true to Holmes' character and canon, too.

I am reminded of a brief cameo by the Ripper in Shanghai Knights, in which he attempts to corner a young Chinese woman. Unbeknownst to him, she is the sister of an Imperial guard, who taught her everything he learned about martial arts. Jack pulls a knife on her, but she immediately hands his ass to him and chucks him into a river, shouting in Chinese something that loosely translates to "Get lost, loser!" Hilariously, this is implied to be the reason his crime spree suddenly ended.

Lindsay, did you just call the Vorlons Vogons? I hope you've not been reading Vogon poetry...

Great episode as always. Speaking of criminals, I would be interested in a Loose Canon on the Mafia since I have been studying their history. Could be cool.

The book stalking Jack the Ripper is really good

Aaaaand there's that time Japan personified Jack the ripper as a loli in the Fate franchise... What a time to be alive

The focus on the Ripper victims as characters and Mary Kelly's surviving was from Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's original From Hell. Oddly enough, so was the Elephant Man cameo. The thing with Abberline being an opium addicted psychic was definitely not. Moore deliberately deglamorized the whole Ripper story and the movie gothicked it up. The changes this adaptation made were the beginning of Moore's ongoing frustrations with Hollywood, along with the LOEG movie. That said, I'm surprised they kept as much of the comic as they did.

Fallen London's one of the most interesting pieces of fantasy fiction I've seen in the last few years...and it looks like Sleepy Hollow completely ripped it off with the whole "Jack's knife is actually the monster" thing. Jesus, that's not even a generic twist. There's no way someone on the writing team didn't play it. :/

I used to play both Inspector Abberline AND Jack the Ripper in a comedy theatre adaptation of the story for some years. At first I misunderstood the story and thought that Abberline IS Jack the Ripper in the play - what an interesting new approach! Turned out it was not the case - they just couldn't afford another actor for the ripper and since he was wearing a mask in the play it didn't matter who played him. Anyway - twice the fun for me!

My sister just sent me one of your videos and this is exactly the kind of stuff I nerd out on. Thank you!

I wonder why Jack the Ripper and not some other killer became popularly known as the first modern serial killer. Was his case the first to receive the kind of press coverage it did? A series of Russian detective novels - the Erast Fandorin series by Boris Akunin - used the Ripper as the villain of one of the books; in it, he's a Russian med student who committed his crimes in London while studying there then simply moved back home.

One of my favorites entries to this weird loose canon is actually one from my owon country. A book called "Baker Street's Shango" (O Xangô de Baker Street), long story short: Sherlock Holmes comes to Brazil because D. Pedro II, one of the Emperors of Brazil, lost a violin and he's goona find out who was the theif. But suddenly women are getting killed and some violin strings are being found in the bodies. Blablabla, there's the whole thing about how Sherlock and Watson actually have to attend to a african-brazilian religious cult and somehow the deities help them solve the case... Or at least try, because Sherlock also couldnt crack the case. BTW, "Shango" is our God Of Justice, its a Nigerian God. It's a Comedy-Mistery book, and its actually pretty good and respectful with my religion... What this has to do with Jack The Ripper? Well, all of this heppens BEFORE the murders in England, and at the END of the book, there is one of the characters in the ship with Sherlock and Watson. The plot giive the reader ENOUGH information without being stupidly obvious that THAT GUY was the killer. The last page of the book is a English Newspaper's Headline about some terrible murders happening in London. I WAS SHOOK because, BELIEVE ME, YOU DO NOT SEE IT COMING you are just... welll maaaaaaaaaaaybe

You named some obscure films I remembered from when I was a kid. Awesome! And celebrity death match was funny... Kinda weird to think about in 2020... But then anything done in claymation was often weird. 5 stars to you, Lindsay!

Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack The Ripper. Epic Rap Battles of History.

16:29 "Vorlon", not "Vorgon". Nice crossover between Babylon 5 and Hitchhiker's Guide, though.

This looks quite interesting! Keep up the good work Lindsay! :D

Ha! I was wondering if you’d include _Wolf in the Fold_ but I’d completely forgotten that Bab5 episode. Excellent essay!

I'm binge watching all your videos and I love itttttt

BILBO THE RIPPER! I'd like to see a mini-canon for Carmilla (I don't think there's enough material for a Loose Canon)

I love the Babylon 5 version of Jack the Ripper. Such a great performance by Wayne Alexander.

I was hoping you’d bring up his appearance in Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood

Omg, thank you for including Jack's Back, 80s. I forgot all about that movie, and I flippin love James Spader, so I'll be on the look out for this one.

You missed alot of jack the rippers in Anime.

Your show is looking more polished and stylized.

The Muzak just ties the whole damn thing together. Greatness in a tiny bite-sized KZfaq package.

There was also an episode of Goodnight Sweetheart where Jack The Ripper escaped into Gary's shop planning to start terrorising the 90s London but doesn't get a chance cause he's run over by a bus, which only explains his sudden disappearance, but is still a bloody odd way of explaining the end of the notorious killer

I've seen that Johnny Depp From Hell movie, I completely forgot it existed until you just showed clips. I remember really liking it, now I want to see it again to see if it's as good as I remember.

Yeah, Jack the Ripper is in a lot of things... the Japanese love him...

If only this was made just a year later so people could be exposed to little girl immortal Jack The Ripper from Fate/Aprocropha

Another adaptation that I love of the Jack character is from a book, A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny. Supernatural with a "magic" knife trying to stop Lovecraftian esque elder things .... with a dog who is the main character of the book.... oh and we do have the Sherlock Holmes cameo as well.

And then there was that one time Christopher Walken cut his head open with a knife...

I love the version, in which Jack the Ripper only targets men and bakes them into pies after killing them.

Just discovered you and am amazed you don’t have millions of views. Well thought-out and engaging content. Thank you.

There's not a film of it but I've always loved how he's played in Roger Zelazny's "A Night in Lonesome October."

Also: Yes!! Essays!!! Essays!!!!!!! It would be awesome if you did narrative theory analisys, like the one for Three Act Screenplays, you're really good at explaining that kind of concepts

You missed out on the SyFy series Sanctuary Jack the Ripper...

Girl I love and respect you SO MUCH. you are so fricking smart, but never sound like a knowitall or smug. Watching your videos feels like listening to my favourite teacher back in high school and i thank you for that. Your videos help me both learn and have fun. Also, you are so pretty :3 Thanks for everything and keep up the great content!

I kind of wish that you had mentioned Forever (2011 TV show that was cancelled after one season, sadly), where the Ripper murders were quite a prominent aspect of the season's plot. I actually really like the Grimm version. They didn't go into too much detail about "Jack"'s backstory and just made him this vague supernatural entity that occasionally inhabits people who died briefly and then goes a-murdering. And the victims got portrayed as real human beings too. (That said, the rubber bullet thing was... a bit far-fetched for my taste.)

Loose canon of Doctor Who.

Thank you for including Babylon 5. It's definitely one of my favorite plot twists in a very well written series. But you pronounced Vorlons "Vorgons" for some reason, which threw me off a bit.

Note on Harlan Ellison and Jack the Ripper: Ellison wrote a short novel called Mefisto in Onyx wherein the villain is a psychic who has learned how to invade the minds of others and force them to trade bodies, allowing him to achieve functional immortality, and to ditch an identity whenever his actions start to bring on too much heat. Somewhere in the story he lists off a number of famous killers who were actually him--one of these is Jack the Ripper.

Can we just agree as a species that no one should ever ever ever call anything a "Final Solution"?