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2001 American film

Bad Karma
Official DVD cover
Directed by	John Hough
Written by	Douglas Clegg (novel) Randall Frakes
Produced by	Brian R. Etting
Starring	Patsy Kensit Patrick Muldoon Damian Chapa Amy Locane
Cinematography	Jacques Haitkin
Music by	Harry Manfredini
Distributed by	Artisan Entertainment
Release date	March 26, 2001 (2001-03-26) (Finland)
Running time	92 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Bad Karma is a 2001 film directed by John Hough. Patsy Kensit stars as a mental patient who believes she is the reincarnated lover of Jack the Ripper, and that her psychiatrist (Patrick Muldoon) is the reincarnated mass murderer. Damian Chapa and Amy Locane are also in the film, which is adapted by Randall Frakes from the 1997 Douglas Clegg novel of the same name.

Plot

A female mental patient (Patsy Kensit) believing she is the reincarnated soul mate of Jack the Ripper, terrorizes her psychiatrist (Patrick Muldoon), whom she believes is her reincarnated lover. Determined to find her man, and willing to use her sensuality to get to him, she breaks out of the mental institution and is determined to, at any cost, free him of his wife (Amy Locane) and young daughter to restart their previous work as mass murderers, and lovers.

Cast

Patsy Kensit as Maureen Hatcher / Agnes Thatcher
Patrick Muldoon as Dr. Trey Campbell
Damian Chapa as Mr. Miller
Amy Locane as Carly Campbell
Amy Huberman as Jenny Pantelli
Patrick Joseph Byrnes as Detective Arboles
Aimee O'Sullivan as Teresa Campbell
Vinnie McCabe as Arthur
Rachel O'Riordan as Denise
Sean Power as Richard
Merina Millsapp as Edie
Nick Hardin as Dad

Production

Filming

The film was released as Hell's Gate in the United States and was filmed on location in Galway, Ireland. The nude scenes of Amy Huberman's character were actually performed by Zoe Paul.

Release

Home media

The film was released on DVD on July 23, 2002, on Region 1 in English.

References

External links

Bad Karma at IMDb
Bad Karma at Rotten Tomatoes

v t e Films directed by John Hough
Wolfshead: The Legend of Robin Hood (1969) Eyewitness (1970) Twins of Evil (1971) Treasure Island (1972) The Legend of Hell House (1973) Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry (1974) Escape to Witch Mountain (1975) Return from Witch Mountain (1978) Brass Target (1978) The Watcher in the Woods (1980) The Incubus (1982) Triumphs of a Man Called Horse (1982) Black Arrow (1985) Biggles: Adventures in Time (1986) A Hazard of Hearts (1987) American Gothic (1988) Howling IV: The Original Nightmare (1988) The Lady and the Highwayman (1989) A Ghost in Monte Carlo (1991) Duel of Hearts (1991) Something to Believe In (1998) Bad Karma (2002)

Films directed by John Hough

Wolfshead: The Legend of Robin Hood (1969)
Eyewitness (1970)
Twins of Evil (1971)
Treasure Island (1972)
The Legend of Hell House (1973)
Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry (1974)
Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)
Return from Witch Mountain (1978)
Brass Target (1978)
The Watcher in the Woods (1980)
The Incubus (1982)
Triumphs of a Man Called Horse (1982)
Black Arrow (1985)
Biggles: Adventures in Time (1986)
A Hazard of Hearts (1987)
American Gothic (1988)
Howling IV: The Original Nightmare (1988)
The Lady and the Highwayman (1989)
A Ghost in Monte Carlo (1991)
Duel of Hearts (1991)
Something to Believe In (1998)
Bad Karma (2002)

Jack the Ripper in fiction

Seminal works

Letters

Film

Waxworks (1924)
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)
Pandora's Box (1929)
The Lodger (1932)
The Lodger (1944)
Room to Let (1950)
Man in the Attic (1953)
Jack the Ripper (1959)
Lulu (1962)
A Study in Terror (1965)
Hands of the Ripper (1971)
Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971)
The Ruling Class (1972)
What the Swedish Butler Saw (1975)
Jack the Ripper (1976)
Murder by Decree (1979)
Time After Time (1979)
Jack's Back (1988)
Edge of Sanity (1989)
Deadly Advice (1994)
Ripper (2001)
From Hell (2001)
Bad Karma (2002)
Case Closed: The Phantom of Baker Street (2002)
Ripper 2: Letter from Within (2004)
The Lodger (2009)
Holmes & Watson. Madrid Days (2012)
Batman: Gotham by Gaslight (2018)

Parody

Bizarre, Bizarre (1937)
The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town (1976)
Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)

Music

"Jack the Ripper" (1963)
"The Ripper" (1976)
"Killer on the Loose" (1980)
The Somatic Defilement (2007)
Jack the Ripper vs. Hannibal Lecter (2014)

Stage

Earth Spirit (1895 play)
Pandora's Box (1904 play)
Lulu (1937 opera)
The Lodger (1960 opera)
The Ruling Class (1968 play)

Comics

Blood of the Innocent (1985)
Gotham by Gaslight (1989)
From Hell (1989–98)
Wonder Woman: Amazonia (1997)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century (2009)

Literature

Sherlock Holmes	The Last Sherlock Holmes Story (1978) The Whitechapel Horrors (1992) Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (2005) Dust and Shadow (2009) The Ripper Legacy (2016)
Short stories	"A Toy for Juliette" (1967) "The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World" (1967)
Other	A Feast Unknown (1969) Time After Time (1979) Night of the Ripper (1984) Phantom Blood (1987) Naomi's Room (1991) Anno Dracula (1992) A Night in the Lonesome October (1993) Jack the Ripper, Light-Hearted Friend (1996) Matrix (1998) Lost (2001) Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper—Case Closed (2002) Blood and Fog (2003) The Witches of Chiswick (2003) Broken (2006) Darkside (2007) Lifeblood (2007) Dracula the Un-dead (2009) I, Ripper (2015) The Cutthroat (2017)

Television

Series	Jack the Ripper (1973) Jack the Ripper (1988) Sanctuary (2007–11) Whitechapel (2009–13) Ripper Street (2012–17) Time After Time (2017) Case File nº221: Kabukicho (2019–20) Sherlock in Russia (2020) Beforeigners (2019–present)
Episodes	"Wolf in the Fold" (1967) "Comes the Inquisitor" (1995) "Ripper" (1999) "Sanctuary for All" (2008) "The Great British Fake Off" (2020)
Other	Bridge Across Time (1985 TV film)

Video games

Jack the Ripper (1987)
The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes (1992)
Ripper (1996)
Duke Nukem: Zero Hour (1999)
Shadow Man (1999)
MediEvil 2 (2000)
Jack the Ripper (2004)
Sherlock Holmes Versus Jack the Ripper (2009)
The Ripper (canceled)
The Order: 1886 (2015)
Assassin's Creed Syndicate: Jack the Ripper (2015)
Dance of Death: Du Lac & Fey (2019)

Other

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