Jill Rips
Encyclopedia
Jill Rips is a film directed in 1999 by Anthony Hickox
starring Dolph Lundgren
, based on a 1987 novel
by Scottish writer Frederic Lindsay
. The film is also known as Jill the Ripper and Tied Up.
), a former boxer and San Francisco cop, now makes a living collecting debts for small businesses. The brutal death of his high-powered younger brother, Michael, changes all that forever.
Intent on finding his brother's killer, Sorenson infiltrates the powerful inner world of politics, business intrigue and casual sex.
Rejecting the police and media theory that the murder is the work of a female prostitute, Sorensen's focus falls on the corrupt big city businessman, Jim Conway.
His obsession to discover the killer's identity mounts as a series of other men are found murdered in a similar fashion. Sorenson loses all objectivity and becomes a vigilante.
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, 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'.
Anthony Hickox
Anthony Hickox is an English film director, actor, film producer and screenwriter.His works include Waxwork and its sequel, Waxwork II: Lost in Time, Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat, Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth, "Prince Valiant", "Children of the Corn", "Warlock: Armageddon", "Payback",...
starring Dolph Lundgren
Dolph Lundgren
Dolph Lundgren is a Swedish actor, director, and martial artist. He belongs to a generation of film actors who epitomise the movie action hero stereotype including Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Chuck Norris, Steven Seagal and Jean-Claude Van Damme.A graduate in chemical...
, based on a 1987 novel
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
by Scottish writer Frederic Lindsay
Frederic Lindsay
Frederic Lindsay is a Scottish crime writer, born in Glasgow and living in Edinburgh. He has been a full-time writer since 1979 and previously worked as a lecturer, teacher and library assistant...
. The film is also known as Jill the Ripper and Tied Up.
Plot
Matt Sorenson (Dolph LundgrenDolph Lundgren
Dolph Lundgren is a Swedish actor, director, and martial artist. He belongs to a generation of film actors who epitomise the movie action hero stereotype including Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Chuck Norris, Steven Seagal and Jean-Claude Van Damme.A graduate in chemical...
), a former boxer and San Francisco cop, now makes a living collecting debts for small businesses. The brutal death of his high-powered younger brother, Michael, changes all that forever.
Intent on finding his brother's killer, Sorenson infiltrates the powerful inner world of politics, business intrigue and casual sex.
Rejecting the police and media theory that the murder is the work of a female prostitute, Sorensen's focus falls on the corrupt big city businessman, Jim Conway.
His obsession to discover the killer's identity mounts as a series of other men are found murdered in a similar fashion. Sorenson loses all objectivity and becomes a vigilante.
Novel reviews
The novel had been described by the Today programmeToday programme
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as 'harrowing, but [its] grim, poetic vision makes it the best novel of its kind for years'.
The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times
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said that 'violent and vicious, Lindsay's unsparing tale beds down with the imagination like a succubus'.
Daily Express
Daily Express
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called it 'tautly and skillfully written - a genuine, can't-put-it-down, turn-off-the-telly-read'.