Review – H.H. Holmes: Origial Evil

Yes boys and girls, if you can download public domain and royalty free video clips and reword a couple of Wikipedia entries, your project can show up on Amazon Prime Video. The result features a lot of silent movie clips that have nothing at all to do with the narrative. It also spends a bizarrely long time covering the crimes of Jack the Ripper before making the obvious point that Holmes couldn’t possibly have committed them. Not for the first time, I found myself wondering about the distinction between a wealthy and powerful content provider that carefully curates its offerings and YouTube except you’re paying for it. Wish I’d skipped it