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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.
Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem (published in the United States as The Trial of Elizabeth Cree [1] [2]) is a 1994 novel by the English author Peter Ackroyd. [3] It is a murder mystery framed within a story featuring real historical characters, and set in a recreation of Victorian London.
Amelia Louise Crouch (born 27 March 2004) is an English actress. She began her career as a child actress on the West End.Her films include The Woman in Black: Angel of Death (2014), Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016), The Limehouse Golem (2016), Extinction (2018), and The Cursed (2021).
In that year he was in several films, including the British war comedy Dad's Army, the animated feature Norm of the North and the horror-mystery The Limehouse Golem. [45] [46] [47] In 2017, acting alongside Emily Mortimer, he starred in the drama The Bookshop, based on the 1978 novel of the same title by Penelope Fitzgerald. [48]
Limehouse is a district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in East London.It is 3.9 miles (6.3 km) east of Charing Cross, on the northern bank of the River Thames.Its proximity to the river has given it a strong maritime character, which it retains through its riverside public houses and steps, such as The Grapes and Limehouse Stairs.
The Limehouse Golem, a 2016 film about a fictional series of Jack the Ripper-esque murders in Victorian London. Other references to golems in popular culture include: The Golem (German: Der Golem), the first novel by Gustav Meyrink and adapted for television in 1967, for film in 1980, and for the stage in 2013.
The project was followed by The Limehouse Golem, an adaptation of Peter Ackroyd's 1994 murder mystery novel Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem. Goldman read the book years before she was a professional screenwriter and kept it in mind as a potential project.
Dan Leno in the 1880s. George Wild Galvin (20 December 1860 – 31 October 1904), better known by the stage name Dan Leno, was a leading English music hall comedian and musical theatre actor during the late Victorian era.