About

Name: Cindy Collins Smith
Dateline: Falls Church, VA
Weblog: hollywoodripper.com/ripperladyblog [RSS]
Articles: 15
First Published: Tuesday, August 12, 2003
Last Published: Monday, August 4, 2008
Writer Bio
Cindy Collins Smith is a writer/editor with contributions in several Midnight Marquee/Luminary Press books—including the recently published You're Next: Loss of Identity in the Horror Film. She is known in Ripper circles as the owner of the Hollywood Ripper website, which covers nine decades of Ripper and Faux Ripper movies, and she is a serial contributor to Ripperologist magazine. In her day job, Ms. Smith edits a magazine, a newsletter and conference publications for a professional association. She also helps develop social media strategies.
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Currently listing articles 15-1:

  1. Technology Review: iPhone 3G

    — The second-generation iPhone comes with performance enhancements, added functionality, and a more robust network.

    REVIEW in Sci/Tech on August 04, 2008

  2. Movie Review: WarGames 25th Anniversary Event, July 24

    — The seminal hacker film WarGames returned to the big screen July 24 for a one night, nationwide, 25th Anniversary tribute.

    REVIEW in Video on July 27, 2008

  3. The Third of Michael Emerson's Five Creepiest Characters of All Time: Johan Borg in Hour of the Wolf

    — Emmy-nominated "Lost" actor Michael Emerson goes to the art house to find the third of his favorite creepy characters.

    OPINION in Video on July 21, 2008

  4. DVD Review: VeggieTales - Tomato Sawyer and Huckleberry Larry's Big River Rescue

    — In this new installment of VeggieTales, Tom and Huck learn the value of helping others, even if it costs them.

    REVIEW in Video on July 15, 2008

  5. The Second of Michael Emerson's Five Creepiest Characters of All Time: Kaspar Gutman in The Maltese Falcon

    — "Lost" actor Michael Emerson makes the non-intuitive choice of "The Maltese Falcon's" Sidney Greenstreet as his next favorite creepy character.

    OPINION in Video on July 12, 2008

  6. One of Michael Emerson's Five Creepiest Characters of All Time: Nosferatu

    — "Lost" actor Michael Emerson reveals his top five creepy characters in an Entertainment Weekly video.

    OPINION in Video on July 07, 2008

  7. Movie Review: Why The Happening Doesn't

    — In The Happening, filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan takes on Alfred Hitchcock and George Romero but gets tangled up instead.

    REVIEW in Video on July 05, 2008

  8. DVD Review: The Crown Jewels of Ripper Cinema - The Lodger (1944)

    — One of the greatest Jack the Ripper movies finally comes to DVD in a classy studio edition.

    REVIEW in Video on June 27, 2008

  9. (Part 4) Patricia Cornwell's Jack: First Impressions of Case Closed

    — Cornwell takes this hypothesis and uses it to speculate on Sickert's frame of mind right before the marriage of his mentor, James Abbott McNeill Whistler.

    in Books on September 03, 2003

  10. (Part 3) Patricia Cornwell's Jack: First Impressions of Case Closed

    — If you came across the following description in a book or an article, what do you think you'd conclude about the person it described?

    in Books on August 26, 2003

  11. (Part 2) Patricia Cornwell's Jack: First Impressions of Case Closed

    — Assuming at face value that Martha Tabram was murdered by Jack the Ripper, Cornwell mentions that during the holidy, people could buy costumes of soldiers

    in Books on August 23, 2003

  12. Patricia Cornwell's "Jack": First Impressions of "Case Closed" - Part 1

    — I already knew about some of the research that Patricia Cornwell has done on Walter Sickert, her suspect. So I expected a fairly straightforward, logical

    in Books on August 22, 2003

  13. In the Company of Slashers

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    in Video on August 16, 2003

  14. Is Jack the Ripper Dead Again and Fatally Attractive?

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    in Video on August 15, 2003

  15. Ripper Fu: Shanghai Knights Meet Jack the Ripper

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    in Video on August 12, 2003

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