Jill Rips

Jill Rips
Jill Rips
	Official DVD cover
Directed by	Anthony Hickox
Written by	Gareth Wardell; Kevin Bernhardt
Produced by	Jim Wynorski; Tracee Stanley; Damian Lee
Starring	Dolph Lundgren; Danielle Brett
Cinematography	David Pelletier
Edited by	Brett Hedlund
Music by	Thomas Barquee; Steve Gurevitch
Production; companies	Phoenician Entertainment; Franchise Pictures
Distributed by	Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Release date	2000;
Running time	94 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Jill Rips (also known as Jill the Ripper and Tied Up^[1]) is a 2000 American film directed by Anthony Hickox starring Dolph Lundgren, based on a 1987 novel by Scottish writer Frederic Lindsay.

Plot[edit]

In 1977 Boston, Matt Sorenson, a former police officer who moved across country, returns for the funeral of his high-powered younger brother, Michael. His body is found washed ashore, tied up in a manner suggesting bondage play, with a brutal series of cuts and stabs, some made after death. Intent on finding his brother's killer, Sorenson initially believes a major construction magnate, 'Big Jim' Conway, whom Michael opposed on a subway project, is responsible. He also finds himself drawn to Michael's widow, Irene, who was married to him for six months. After other men are found murdered in a similar fashion, and that they had been photographed with a masked sex worker, the investigation focuses on her, the media branding her "Jill the Ripper." Matt reluctantly immerses himself in the underground bondage and discipline scene, and discovers what has linked his brother's murder, Conway, and Irene together.

Cast[edit]

Dolph Lundgren as Matt Sorenson
Danielle Brett as Irene
Richard Fitzpatrick as Eddie
Kristi Angus as Frances
Charles Seixas as "Big Jim" Conway
Sandi Ross as Mary O.
Greg Ellwand as Peerse
Victor Pedtrchenko as Joe Jujavia
Kylie Bax as Serena

Release[edit]

Home media[edit]

After a TV premiere on HBO under the alternate title Tied Up in January 2000, the movie was released on DVD on July 4, 2000 by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment as Jill the Ripper (while keeping its original title Jill Rips in other countries).^[2] In February 2024, Scream Factory released it as a limited run BluRay under its original Jill Rips title, as a website exclusive.

Reception[edit]

Novel reviews[edit]

The novel had been described by the Today programme as 'harrowing, but [its] grim, poetic vision makes it the best novel of its kind for years'. The Sunday Times said that 'violent and vicious and brutal, Lindsay's unsparing tale beds down with the imagination like a succubus'. Daily Express called it 'tautly and skillfully written—a genuine, can't-put-it-down, turn-off-the-telly-read'.