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Viral Haunt has been retitled The Haunting at Jack the Ripper’s House, and Bloody Disgusting has not one but two exclusive trailers for the found footage horror film below.

ITN Distribution’s official preview centers on the horrors surrounding the Jack the Ripper legend, while producers Taw Entertainment’s alternate trailer shows more of the influencers’ reactions to the terrors that await them.

Natasha Tosini, who’s head was run over in Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey, and Stephen Staley, who was among the slashed-up ravers in Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2, co-wrote and co-directed the UK film.

“With the new title, we’re leaning even deeper into the terror and mystery that surrounds Jack the Ripper’s legend,” the filmmakers tell Bloody Disgusting. “And now, with the trailer officially out, audiences can finally get a glimpse of the horror that awaits.”

After skeptics accuse a group of YouTube paranormal...

Natasha Tosini, who’s head was run over in Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey, and Stephen Staley, who was among the slashed-up ravers in Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2, have teamed up on Viral Haunt.

The duo co-wrote and co-directed the UK found footage horror movie, which you can preview in the exclusive stills below.

After skeptics accuse a group of YouTube paranormal investigators of faking their ghostly encounters, they take on their most ambitious challenge yet: proving their authenticity by spending the night in the infamous Jack the Ripper Manor.

What starts as their biggest viral opportunity quickly spirals into a terrifying fight for survival as they uncover the estate’s horrific secrets and come face to face with the lingering spirit of one of history’s most notorious killers.

Intertwining fact and fiction, the plot incorporates real-life connections to Aaron Kosminski, the Polish hairdresser whose DNA evidence has linked...

After 137 years, one of the all-time greatest mysteries has been solved, as multiple outlets are reporting that the true crime case of Jack the Ripper has been blown wide open thanks to a DNA match.

First, a reminder of some of the details of the Jack the Ripper case, thanks to Wikipedia. Jack the Ripper was an unidentified serial killer who was active in and around the impoverished Whitechapel district of London, England, in 1888. In both criminal case files and the contemporaneous journalistic accounts, the killer was also called the Whitechapel Murderer and Leather Apron. Attacks ascribed to Jack the Ripper typically involved women working as prostitutes who lived in the slums of the East End of London. Their throats were cut prior to abdominal mutilations. The removal of internal organs from at least three of the victims led to speculation that their killer had some anatomical or surgical knowledge.

After 136 years, one of history’s greatest crime mysteries may finally be solved. Recent DNA analysis has provided what researcher Russell Edwards calls a “100 per cent” match linking Polish-born barber Aaron Kosminski to the infamous Jack the Ripper murders. This breakthrough has reignited discussions around the case, leading many to revisit films inspired by the Ripper’s reign of terror.

If you’re looking for the perfect movie to watch in light of this revelation, there’s no better choice than Alfred Hitchcock’s silent-era masterpiece The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927).

Why The Lodger: A Story Of The London Fog is a Must-Watch

Though Hitchcock never explicitly names Jack the Ripper in The Lodger, the film is heavily influenced by the real-life events surrounding the murders. The story follows a mysterious tenant who checks into a London lodging house just as a serial killer, known as the Avenger,...

The following article contains mentions of suicide.

John Pizer, the Leather Apron, was wrongly suspected by London police and quickly ruled out as Jack the Ripper. Montague John Druitt was a serious suspect who died by suicide but the police lacked concrete evidence linking him to the murders. Francis Tumblety, an American fraud, was arrested in London for the murders but escaped police custody on bail.

Unsolved Mysteries dives deep into the Jack the Ripper case (perhaps one of the biggest unsolved cases in history) in volume 4, including exploring five suspects who have been named over the years. The Netflix true crime documentary series was created by John Cosgrove and Terry Dunn Meurer and originally premiered in January 1987 on ABC. Since then, Unsolved Mysteries has jumped around networks and streaming services from ABC to CBS to Lifetime to Spike and, most recently, to Netflix. The streaming platform has released four volumes consisting of 26 episodes,...

For well over a century, the identity of Jack the Ripper, the most notorious serial killer of the Nineteenth century, has remained a mystery. Yet a new study claims to have used DNA analysis to reveal the man behind the brutal slayings.

According to a study in the Journal of Forensic Sciences, the man known as Jack the Ripper is likely Aaron Kominski, a 23-year-old barber of Polish descent who lived in London at the time. At least five women, all of whom were believed to have been sex workers,...

Tony Sokol Mar 18, 2019

Forensic tests claim to confirm Jack the Ripper was the suspect barber Aaron Kosminski.

New DNA evidence reveals the notorious 19th-century serial killer Jack the Ripper was 23-year-old Polish barber Aaron Kosminski, according to Science magazine. Kosminski was the prime suspect for the murders in the 130-year cold case, the crimes that gave birth to the 20th century, per the 1979 film Time After Time. All these years later, the Jack the Ripper has never been conclusively identified.

Researchers at Liverpool John Moores University write they have conducted “the most systematic and most advanced genetic analysis to date regarding the Jack the Ripper murders.” Two sets of DNA traces found on the original evidence match both Kosminski and Catherine Eddowes, the Ripper’s fourth victim. They also suggest the killer had brown eyes and brown hair, which coincides with eyewitness reports at the time.

Eddowes was killed on...