A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

What a piece of crap. Every time a "lead" went nowhere, they found some other circumstantial piece of "evidence". Amaryllis Fox may have been a credible investigator at one time but not any more.

First I love documentaries and this is about 50% documentary and 50% conjecture.Learning about this serial killer was interesting and scary, but the attempt to draw a connection to Jack the Ripper is very so-so with at best coincidences.Worth your time?If you love documentaries about crime and wasting half your time,you're good to go.

Well I learned two irrevocable things about this series: #1. I wasted 8 hours of life watching it. #2. We still don't know who The Ripper was. This series lost me on series 7 when Jeff Muddget convinces himself, after every other expert debunks all his theories, that H.H. Holmes escaped his own hanging death and exacted revenge on all the people that assisted in his capture or criminal trial. What's worse is although quite sexy in her own way, the CIA operative Amaryllis Fox actually entertained this theory. The first few episodes I found somewhat entertaining as it did shed facts of the crimes, and hopes that there was some plausibility to the claim Holmes was linked. All in all, I guess The History Channel succeeded in what they set out to do and that was to get people to watch. I confess I watched all 8 episodes but I figured, "what the hell," I've already wasted 6 hours of this debacle.

I was really enjoying this show until the penultimate episode, where they talk to a man who collects old phonograph cylinders, one of which may have been made by Holmes himself. We are teased by the idea that we're about to hear the actual voice of Jack the Ripper! But when Mudgett asks the man to play it, he tells him it's too delicate and might crack. You've gotta be kidding me! You've got a national TV audience watching and you won't play the recording? Instead we get Mudgett reading a transcript. Oh, how exciting! But the collector must have played the cylinder at least once, or he wouldn't have been able to make the transcript. So why didn't he record the sound while he was playing the cylinder? And why hasn't someone scanned the grooves on the cylinder, which would allow the contents to be reproduced without risk?As for the claim that Holmes was Jack the Ripper -- if he was, then why didn't he say so when he wrote his confession to his other murders? And why doesn't his handwriting match that on the Ripper letters? And if he did cheat death and flee to England, where supposedly the Ripper was spotted -- and recognized -- many years later by the Batty Street landlady, that means he made no attempt to alter his appearance -- not smart for someone on the lam.Besides, I know who Jack the Ripper really was. I have a piece of film containing the murderer's confession. The film is too delicate to play, so you'll just have to take my word for it -- but here is a transcript of that film in its entirety:"I killed those women in Whitechapel. I'm sorry. I must have been out of my mind. After that dreadful Mary Kelly business, the coppers found me wandering in an alley, babbling incoherently, and they took me to an insane asylum, where I was given an experimental drug that cured my insanity, and also served as a fountain of youth, greatly increasing my life expectancy. Since then I've tried to do good things, not bad, but I can no longer live with my guilt about those earlier crimes, so I've decided to go off into the sunset and lose myself in the cleansing depths of the ocean, leaving this film with my attorney, along with instructions that it should be made public 80 years after my death. I really am sorry. Yours truly, Amelia Earhart."