From Hell (2001) - The Freemasons scene | Initiation scene | Johnny Depp | Katrin Cartlidge

FILM DESCRIPTION: In 1888, Mary Kelly and a small group of London prostitutes trudge through unrelenting daily misery. Their friend Ann Crook is a former prostitute now married to a wealthy painter named Albert, and she recently gave birth to their daughter, Alice. When Ann is kidnapped, the women are drawn into a conspiracy with links to high society. Ann’s kidnapping is followed by the gruesome murder of another one of the women, and it soon becomes apparent that each of the prostitutes are being hunted down one by one, murdered, and mutilated post-mortem by a killer referred to as Jack the Ripper. The prostitutes’ murders grab the attention of Whitechapel Police Inspector Frederick Abberline, a brilliant, yet troubled, man whose police work is often aided by his psychic “visions.“ Abberline is still grieving the death of his wife during childbirth two years prior. His colleague, Sergeant Peter Godley, tries to grasp his friend’s strange theories. Abberline’s investigatio