Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 19802009

Name: Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
Genre: Psychological, Survival
Released: 2009-11-11
Rating: 7.4

Directed by James Marsh

7.4

Crypt Score

Blended from 3 sources

IMDb 7.1Rotten Tomatoes 93%TMDB 6.9

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On the charts

#5·Top Horror Movies of 2009 #14·Top Horror Movies of the 2000s

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Year

2009

Runtime

93 min

Box Office

Domestic

$148,826

🏆 2 nominations

The premise

After 6 years of brutal murders, the West Yorkshire Police fear that they may have already interviewed The Ripper and let him back into the world to continue his reign of terror upon the citizens of Yorkshire. Assistant Chief Constable of the Manchester Police, Peter Hunter, is called in to oversee the West Yorkshire Police's Ripper investigation and see what they could have missed.

Horror Vault's take

Set against the cold grey backdrop of 1980s Yorkshire, this second chapter of the Red Riding trilogy thrusts an outsider detective into a hornet's nest of institutional rot and unsolved brutality. An Assistant Chief Constable from Manchester is sent to audit the floundering Ripper investigation — but the deeper he digs, the more he suspects the corruption runs far higher than any single killer. The film builds its dread not from supernatural forces but from the very real horror of systems designed to bury the truth. It is a suffocating procedural that lingers long after the credits roll.

Content: Depictions Of Serial Murder, Strong Language, References To Violence Against Women, Disturbing Themes Of Institutional Corruption