From Hell presents a fictionalized account ... whodunit centered on Depp’s character. The movie also invents Abberline’s opium addiction and psychic abilities, elements absent from the graphic ...

Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers adaption of a graphic novel that posits the ...

What irks me most about From Hell, however, is the near-complete absence of backstory we're offered. As the film opens, we see Abberline reclining in an opium den, his oily, languid face the very ...

In the September Vanity Fair, Nick Tosches goes on a thirteen-page quest for the brocade-curtained opium den of his dreams. With excuses in hand from his doctor and his priest, he drains his ...