After 6 years of brutal murders, the West Yorkshire Police fear that they may have already interviewed The Ripper and let him back into the world to continue his reign of terror upon the citizens of Yorkshire. Assistant Chief Constable of the Manchester Police, Peter Hunter, is called in to oversee the West Yorkshire Police's Ripper investigation and see what they could have missed.
Acting
Paddy Considine's eyes carry three acts of silent devastation.
Direction
James Marsh makes Yorkshire look like a crime scene in snow.
Cinematography
That grainy 16mm? You're *in* 1980, and it stinks of cigarettes.
Director
James Marsh
Paddy Considine
Peter Hunter
Warren Clarke
Bill Molloy
Maxine Peake
Helen Marshall
James Fox
Philip Evans
David Calder
Sir John Marsden
Nicholas Woodeson
Michael Warren
Tony Pitts
John Nolan
Jim Carter
Harold Angus
David Morrissey
Maurice Jobson
Eddie Marsan
Jack Whitehead
Sean Harris
Bob Craven
Tony Mooney
Tommy Douglas
Shaun Dooley
Dick Alderman
Ron Cook
Clement Smith
Lesley Sharp
Joan Hunter
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Red Riding trilogy was shot on actual 16mm and 35mm film stock to match each era's look—1980 got the grimy 16mm treatment.
The real Yorkshire Ripper investigation was notoriously botched; police interviewed Peter Sutcliffe nine times before his 1981 arrest. This fiction barely exaggerates.
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