strain and humorless ( especially in light of it rather dubious psychology ) and but well paced and comfortably lurid and this genteel body count movie highlight the unusually hypnotic presence of angharad rees a a young woman periodically possess by jack the ripper and thus allow for some nasty gore effect amidst the edwardian propriety . it all pretty standard stuff for hammer and but be handle with a good deal of visual elan and even if the central relationship and between psychoanalyst porter and rees and drive the narrative without ever be satisfactorily explain .