#The Limehouse Golem (2016)

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You can watch a supercut of Sam in The Limehouse Golem (2016) here.

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The Limehouse Golem, 2016 / Interview with the Vampire, 2022–

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Sam Reid as John Cree in The Limehouse Golem (2016).

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Are there any movies that critics and audiences hate but you personally love?

Alien 3 (actually it’s my favourite movie in the series…),

Waxwork 2: Lost in Time (1991),

the Purge 3 (2016),

Paul Blart: Mall Cop (I LOOOVE this movie, you can laugh at me it’s okay),

Daddy’s Home 2 (idk I laugh every time),

The Limehouse Golem (2016)

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Etc…

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whyyy are there like 0 posts about the Limehouse Golem 2016 on this site it was such a good movie. call to action for everyone to go watch it i loved it

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I liked the part where Karl Marx brutally murdered a prostitute.

Strange vibes throughout, not at all helped by excessively edgy segments, particularly the weirdly distorted murder flashbacks that added very little of interest. The synopsis made it seem like an actual mythical golem would be suspected, but then it was hardly mentioned at all.

The actual plot was laughably predictable, with the grand revelation that the character who was clearly established to have the background of a serial killer, was in fact a serial killer. Shocking!

Bill Nighy gave a serviceable performance as the least interesting detective in Scotland Yard. Olivia Cooke was great, and stole the show whenever she was on screen. I quite enjoyed her stage performance.

All told, The Limehouse Golem was bland and formulaic, and aside from that bizarre Karl Marx bit, easily forgettable.

Not much more to say about this one. It was alright, I guess.

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The Limehouse Golem | Juan Carlos Medina | 2016

Bill Nighy, Olivia Cooke

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The Limehouse Golem

Dir. Juan Carlos Medina; Wri. Jane Goldman; Nov. Peter Ackroyd

Although I couldn’t decide whether the seemingly rushed start was to it’s advantage or not, I thought The Limehouse Golem both enjoyable and chilling at points. Films that throw you in at the deep end and expect you to get on board from the start should be commended for not playing it too safe and this film doesn’t waste time with getting to the meat of it (which I thought it had enough of). I’m not used to watching too many horror inflected films, the extent of my horror education being limited to The Shining and…uh, that’s all that comes to mind.

The mystery of who was the titular golem and the touching moments between Bill Nighy and Olivia Cooke’s characters seemed to ease my initial disorientation at the start even when the London streets became more and more claustrophobic. I have yet to watch enough films of this sort to become bored with this setting and plot but even so, Nighy’s inspector’s sympathy with Cooke’s character added an intrigue as they both found themselves in situations of persecution, whether that was being accused of murdering your husband or being lade with a seemingly unsolvable case.

This is definitely not a horror film, as the misty 19th century London streets might suggest, but I did find the story and setting oppressive partly due to the limited locations and the relatively swift pace. I do sometimes wonder whether a rather shallow story is mistaken for keeping fast pace as you can feel like you’re hopping between scenes without carrying too much baggage with you, and this film certainly may come under that category, but what it may lack in depth I thought it made up in character - mainly because of my fondness of Bill Nighy and my burgeoning fandom of Olivia Cooke.

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The Limehouse Golem (2016)

Dir. Juan Carlos Medina

☆Bill Nighy, Olivia Cooke, Douglas Booth☆

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The Limehouse Golem (2016)

As a woman goes on trial suspected of poisoning her husband, an inspector investigates the circumstances of her life to find out if her late husband was somehow linked to the grisly murders perpetrated by what the press have dubbed “The Limehouse Golem”.

 The acting in this film was of a reasonable standard and I think Bill Nighy made a good detective even though it isn’t the sort of thing he usually plays. The structure of the film was also relatively good, particularly the evenly spaced flashbacks to the past, although a couple of these could have been a little shorter to help the pace of the film.

 The story was unfortunately quite predictable and the ending is obvious enough that anyone familiar with typical murder mysteries should have considered it within at least the first 20 minutes of the film. It’s pretty much the exact same basic storyline of Witness to the Prosecution by Agatha Christie except the psychology behind the motive doesn’t make any sort of sense in comparison with that story.

 The setting and the scenery were great. The designers did a brilliant job of recreating Victorian London which grounded the drama very effectively. A great deal of detail was clearly paid to the construction and realism of the set which is mostly very useful, with the only exception being the gallows built on the stage which looks like an exact replica of the real gallows and therefore seemed too high a standard for the theatre to have replicated.

 There were a number of things suggested about the detective’s personal life but disappointingly none of these are really explored. This is a particular shame because his character seems interesting and he’s the one we’re aligned with in the film. It seems fairly pointless to have included these tantalising morsels of information just to ignore them. Furthermore, I found it pretty odd that a story connected closely with a Jewish folk legend had so very little to do with Jewish culture or traditions besides one victim being from the religion.

 3/10 -This one’s bad but it’s got some good in it, just there-

 -The lead role originally belonged to Alan Rickman who had to leave production due to his health. He died shortly after and the film holds a dedication to him after the credits.

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Sam Reid as John Cree in The Limehouse Golem (2016)

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Sam Reid in The Limehouse Golem (2016)

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The Limehouse Golem 2016 | dir. Juan Carlos Medina

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Douglas Booth as Dan Leno in The Limehouse Golem (2016)

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The Limehouse Golem | Juan Carlos Medina | 2016