The Limehouse Golem (2016)

Sam Reid: John Cree

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Quotes 

• John Cree : [Voice over, Inspector Kildare is reading the handwritten diary in the book]  It was a fine, bright evening and I could feel a murder coming on. Since it was to be my first show I decided, by way of inspiration, to pay a visit to the site of the immortal Ratcliffe Highway murders. More than half a century ago, on this sacred spot, an entire family was despatched into eternity by a man named John Williams. A man Thomas De Quincey describes as an artist of exquisite skill. And yet now the site of his greatest work was defiled by a seller of second-had clothes.

• John Kildare : [is reading in Cree's diary] 

  John Cree : [voice over]  I took out her eyes in case my image had been imprinted upon them. And washed the blood from my hands with the gin in her chamber pot. My first performance... was complete.