Release dates

November 7, 2017

91 months ago

DVD / Blu-ray

Released

DVD

Nov 7, 2017

91 months ago

Blu-ray

Nov 7, 2017

91 months ago

VOD

Sep 8, 2017

93 months ago

Cinema

Sep 8, 2017

93 months ago

The Limehouse Golem release date

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The Limehouse Golem

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Set on the unforgiving, squalid streets of Victorian London in 1880...

Set on the unforgiving, squalid streets of Victorian London in 1880, our tale begins in the baroque, grandiose music hall where the capital's most renowned performer Dan Leno (Douglas Booth) takes to the stage. The whimsical thespian performs a monologue, informing his dedicated audience of the ghastly fate of a young woman who had once adorned this very stage, his dear friend Elizabeth Cree (Olivia Cooke); for the beguiling songstress is facing up to her forthcoming death by hanging, having been accused of murdering her husband John Cree (Sam Reid). Lizzie's death seems inevitable, until Detective Inspector John Kildare (Bill Nighy) is assigned to the case of the Limehouse Golem - a nefarious, calculating serial killer, murdering innocent, unconnected victims, leaving behind barely identifiable corpses - and his distinctive signature in blood. All is not what it seems and everyone is a suspect and everyone has a secret.

Drama Horror Thriller Juan Carlos Medina Bill Nighy Olivia Cooke Douglas Booth Daniel Mays Eddie Marsan María Valverde Sam Reid Lionsgate Films

What the critics say

Based on 10 reviews, The Limehouse Golem gets an average review score of 60

B/A+

thefilmstage.com
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The script carries us through without much effort, its expertly paced discoveries keeping us enthralled despite early assumptions pointing to Cree as the titular monster.

2781d ago

4/5

telegraph.co.uk
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A glorious feminist twist on Jack the Ripper.

2781d ago

4/5

theguardian.com
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Lurid beheadings aside, this unlikely feminist Jack the Ripper-esque thriller cleverly unpicks late-Victorian London’s social strictures.

2781d ago

70/100

nytimes.com
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Marrying fact and fiction, Jane Goldman’s seamy screenplay is wildly overstuffed; but the director, Juan Carlos Medina, gives the music hall scenes a rowdy authenticity.

2781d ago

50/100

variety.com
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A Ripper-like killer terrorizes Victorian London in this colorful, cluttered thriller.

2781d ago

50/100

newyorker.com
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A gritty murder mystery from the Dardenne brothers and Juan Carlos Medina’s thriller set in Victorian London.

2781d ago

2/4

slantmagazine.com
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Initially colorful, the screenplay’s lurid and overripe dialogue eventually grinds the film to a halt.

2781d ago

50/100

villagevoice.com
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Director Juan Carlos Medina depicts a grim city perpetually shrouded in fog the color and consistency of pea soup. He makes the murders appropriately gory, but not over the top. Yet a storyline involving anti-Semitism threatens to upend the compelling detective tale.

2781d ago

2/4

rogerebert.com
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Medina's general preference for thrice warmed-over representations of 19th century London's streets and interiors also leave much to be desired.

2781d ago

2/5

empireonline.com
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In Victorian London, a spate of murders have police stumped. With the locals terrified, a new detective (Bill Nighy) joins the case, his investigations leading him to an apparently unrelated death which could be the key to the mystery.

2781d ago