This Is the House That Jack Built was printed in numerous collections in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Randolph Caldecott produced an illustrated version in 1878. Cherrington Manor, a handsome timber-framed house in North East Shropshire, England, is reputed to be the actual house that Jack built. There is a former malt house in the grounds. Each sentence in the story is an example of an increasingly deeply nested relative clause. The last version, "This is the horse...", would be quite difficult to untangle if the previous ones were not present. See the Noun Phrase for more details about postmodification of the noun phrase in
The House That Jack Built (2018 film) takes the body of Grumpy, her other son and using his knowledge of taxidermy, re-arranges his face into a grotesque smile. Jack meets Jacqueline (Riley Keough), a woman that he calls "Simple", as he believes her to be stupid. Jack confesses he has killed sixty people at this point and is the serial killer "Mr. Sophistication" but Jacqueline does not believe him and thinks he's lying. She tries to get away and tell a cop but he dismisses her as a drunk. Eventually Jacqueline fails to escape and Jack cuts off her breasts with a knife and murders her. He