Irene (Jill Rips)

Irene aka Jill the Ripper is the main antagonist of 2000 movie Jill Rips (also known as Jill the Ripper and Tied Up) which was based on a 1987 novel by Scottish writer Frederic Lindsay. She was portrayed by Danielle Brett.

A mysterious serial killer who was active in the 1970s. She would dress as a dominatrix in a red leather gimp suit and target men who she had a personal grudge against. At the end of the film, it is revealed that her real identity is Irene, the disgruntled wife of one of her previous victims.

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Not much is known about Irene's early life, what little we do know comes from her own words.

At some point, Irene would marry Michael Sorenson. The relationship was apparently less than perfect as according to Irene, Michael had a perverted taste for going out to BDSM hangouts. Eventually, Michael would convince her to dress up in a tight red leather bodysuit and hood to satisfy him and his friends depraved sexual urges.

Irene, feeling humiliated and ashamed by the experience, but also incredibly aroused by the act of dominating others, began planning ways to get revenge on them. She started going out at night dressed in the outfit and began hunting down those who she believed had used her and would first seductively tie them up and dominate them sexually before brutally stabbing them to death with a knife. She would then leave the bodies at the scene of the crime and return home with nobody suspecting that the murderous dominatrix that had been haunting the city was her.

Eventually, either because he found out about her nighttime activities, or simply because she had grown sick of him at that point, Irene followed her husband to one of the clubs one night and while in her disguise, lured him outside where she was able to quickly bind him and kill him.

It was around this time that Irene, having discovered that she actually enjoyed dominating men and having gained a taste for murder, decided to widen her pool of victims to include other men not linked to her who she deemed abusive to women, hence becoming a twisted serial killer and vigilante.