Jack the Ripper - Digitally Remastered. Close your eyes and whisper his name By day, Dennis Orloff (Klaus Kinski) is a respected doctor in 19th century London; by night, he dismembers prostitutes as notorious killer Jack the Ripper. As he continues to terrorize the city, a local inspectors girlfriend (Josephine Chaplin) goes undercover to catch him. The film presents one of many interpretations of the infamous serial killer, hypothesizing that his psychosis was the result of his mother being a prostitute.