The title of the 2nd track on Morrissey's fourth studio album, Vauxhall and I, was almost certainly based upon 'Spring-heeled Jack', an entity in English folklore of the Victorian era. The first claimed sighting of Spring-heeled Jack was in 1837. Later sightings were reported all over Great Britain and were especially prevalent in suburban London, the Midlands and Scotland. The last reported sighting is said in most of the secondary literature to have been made in Liverpool in 1904.
I find the movie dialog very annoying in this song, it's a shame it ruins it for me.