Top 10: Best Twentieth Century Fox titles

 

1. The Grapes of Wrath (1940) - John Ford

 

 

2. Alien (1979) - Ridley Scott

 

3. The Fly (1958) - Kurt Neumann  

 

 

4. Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993) - Jim Abrahams

 

 

5. Home Alone (1990) - Chris Columbus 

 

6. From Hell (2001) - The Hughes Brothers

 

 7. 24 - season 3 (2003) - Robert Cochran, Joel Surnow

 

 

8. The Greatest Showman (2017) - Michael Gracey  

 

 

9. The Happening (2008) - M. Night Shyamalan

10. Judy (2019) - Rupert Goold

 

Selected from 55 titles labeled 'Fox'

 

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From Hell (2001) - The Hughes Brothers' persuasive up-tempo Ripper slasher

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The two attractive stars and a promise of diabolical violence outline this poster for the Hughes Brothers' From Hell

An absinthe and opium addicted London police inspector in 1888 hunts the frightening Jack the Ripper murderer and falls in love with one of the city's prostitutes, whose life is under imperiled.

From Hell is written by Terry Hayes (Vertical Limit (2000)) and Rafael Yglesias (Dark Water (2005)), based on the same-titled 2000 graphic novel by Alan Moore (Watchmen (1986-87)) and Eddie Campbell (Egomania 1-2 (2002)), and directed by the Hughes Brothers, Albert and Allen Hughes (Menace II Society (1993)).
The pace is high, and the production design to recreate the sense of a truly unpleasant London, - perhaps actually the hell that the title alludes to? - is uniquely slummy.
Johnny Depp (The Brave (1997)) is good as the inspector, and so is Robbie Coltrane (Cracker (1993-96)), Heather Graham (Horns (2013)) and Ian Holm (Henry V (1989)), who is eerily diabolical here. From Hell works terrifically as snappy entertainment.

Watch a short TV trailer for the film here

Cost: 35 mil. $
Box office: 74.5 mil. $
= Flop (returned 2.12 times its cost)
[From Hell premiered 9 September (Venice International Film Festival, Italy) and runs 122 minutes. It was shot in the UK and in the Czech Republic, including Prague, in and around June 2000. The film opened #1 with an 11 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it spent another week in the top 5 (#3) and grossed 31.6 mil. $ (42.4 % of the total gross). The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were Italy with 8.3 mil. $ (11.1 %) and France with 4.1 mil. $ (5.5 %). Roger Ebert gave the film a 3/4 star review, equal to its rating here. The Hughes Brothers returned with Korn music video Here to Stay (2002); Allen Hughes directed 3 episodes of Touching Evil (2004, TV-series), TV movie Knights of the South Bronx (2005) and a segment of anthology New York, I Love You (2008), and they returned jointly to the big screen after that with The Book of Eli (2010). Depp returned in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), Graham in Killing Me Softly (2002). From Hell is rotten at 57 % with a 5.7/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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