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      • The good news is that there wasn't a violent serial killer called the Limehouse Golem. However, some of the characters in the film are based on real people. Karl Marx features as a suspect in the film as does the very well known drag performer Dan Leno.
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  2. The Limehouse Golem is a 2016 British horror-mystery film directed by Juan Carlos Medina from a screenplay by Jane Goldman. The film, an adaptation of Peter Ackroyd's 1994 murder mystery novel Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem, stars Olivia Cooke, Bill Nighy and Douglas Booth.

  3. In the case of George Gissing, he was genuinely living in Limehouse and visiting opium dens – those aspects of the film are true. His wife Nell [played by Edythe Woolley] features very briefly in the film, and some of what we see of the couple is based on real events.

  4. Sep 8, 2017 · The Limehouse Golem: Directed by Juan Carlos Medina. With Douglas Booth, Olivia Cooke, Sam Reid, María Valverde. In Victorian London, a Scotland Yard inspector hunts down the sadistic killer behind a series of gory, Jack the Ripper-Like murders.

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    • 2017-09-08
  5. The Limehouse Golem (2016) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.

  6. According to History Extra the film is based on Peter Ackroyd's book Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem. Ackroyd is not only a novelist but also a biographer having previously written...

  7. Aug 30, 2017 · The Limehouse Golem is based on a 1994 mystery novel called Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem by Peter Ackroyd and is about an investigator named Inspector John Kildare who takes on a case involving a series of murders that have shaken a local community to the point where people speculate that a mythical “Golem” is responsible.

  8. Sep 8, 2017 · The Limehouse Golem offers old-school Hammer-style horror anchored by rich period detail and strong work from a solid cast. Read Critics Reviews

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