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Jack Hedley of The Anniversary stars as a hardbitten police lieutenant tracking a sadistic sex-killer in this gruesome thriller from splatter-maven Lucio Fulci. The misogynistic script (by Fulci and p... read more read more...rolific collaborators Gianfranco Clerici and Vincenzo Mannino) posits a femme-hating psycho (who talks like Donald Duck) slashing beautiful women with a switchblade and a straight-razor because his daughter is in the hospital and will never grow up to be beautiful. Fulci was apparently trying to work in a statement about American competitiveness by making his heroine (Antonella Interlenghi) an aspiring Olympic athlete, and having a killer who is concerned that his daughter will never be "the best," but the point gets lost amidst the buckets of blood and gratuitously kinky sex scenes. Pandering to the lowest common denominator as never before in his career, Fulci showed with this blatant play for the sicko slasher crowd that the days of well-plotted, stylish Italian horror were gone, replaced with the most vicious sort of sexual violence and perversion. Despite all of that, there is one fairly masterful sequence in which the suspect's S&M sex partner learns his identity from a radio broadcast and must untie herself and escape while he sleeps. This scene is tense and nerve-wracking, a high-point of genuine fear amidst a nauseating collage of metal blades slicing female flesh. A shameful piece of work that makes Mario Landi's Giallo a Venezia look positively liberated, it co-stars Renato Rossini, Andrea Occhipinti, and Paolo Malco, with cult figures Alessandra Delli Colli, Daniela Doria, and Barbara Cupisti on the chopping block. Cinematographer Luigi Kuveiller, editor Vincenzo Tomassi, and composer Francesco De Masi have all done better work. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi

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Unrated, 1 hr. 30 min.

Directed by: Lucio Fulci

Release Date: January 1, 1982

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  • animegirlaya
    July 16, 2011
    animegirlaya
    Directed by Lucio Fulci and staring Jack Hedley and Giordano Falzoni

    OMG this movie is so stupid I just can't take it seriously. Two reasons why I know about this movie is because it is an Italian Giallo film and the book are quite good if you find the right one and the second... read more reason is that. This movie was a torrent that kids were searing about my school and then they started talking about some scene with a girl named kitty getting cut up with a razor while she was tied to her bed so I passed on the movie. But so like Meany things later on I guess I just had to watch it and the reason it is so stupid is because.

    *Our killer in this quacks like duck
    *So lady is getting her fix on by watching a guy and girl have sex
    *Her husbent is pulling himself over the recordings she made
    *Some girl gets brutally stab in the stomach while our killer is quacking like a duck
    *another girl is getting a foot up her privates.
    *Some girl is getting raped by some guy with only 4 figures on his hand.
    *Our killer inflicts pain on kitty with a razor to her face
    *Some girl has a nightmare about a guy gutting her in a movie theater.

    Its just so stupid for a title like the New York ripper it should be called fucked up killer in new York. A lot of things I just had to fast forward I just couldn't watch like when some Mexican guy sticks his foot up the girl nearly made me turn off the movie.

    0% for story it's just so boring and lame and stupid

    20% for acting the American actors seemed to be doing alright until the duck came along.

    65% for special effects the only good killing scene was the end because the movie was over.

    5% for characters there sex crazed and most are getting murdered for no reason.

    2% for everything else the music was truly the only good part about the movie.

    But still its no worth watching so just skip it if I were you.

    Keiko's score 5%
  • TheDudeLebowski65
    July 6, 2011
    TheDudeLebowski65
    The New York Ripper is one of Lucio Fulci's last great films. What I love about this film is that it's a drastic departure from Fulci's previous Gates Of Hell Trilogy which started with The Beyond followed by The House By The Cemetery and concluded with City Of The Living Dead. T... read morehe New York Ripper is a mix between detective fiction and slasher film. Lucio Fulci's The New York Ripper is an underrated film from the godfather of gore. But it's understandable as to why it is viewed as garbage. The film is not for the faint of heart, as it's sexually violent, obscene in some parts. But there are a few well constructed scenes of tension and horror. Though Fulci's glory days were behind him at this point of his career. He managed to direct an intense slasher film that makes Friday The 13th look like a Disney film. Fulci's use of gore is relentless and he delivers it in spades. The film was marketed with the tagline: "The most controversial movie ever made". Well, it's definitely one of the most disturbing of the slasher films out there. Fulci fans will love it, common viewers will despise it, and dismiss it. The New York Ripper is an intense slasher film that is in the same category as William Lustig's Maniac! If you love slasher films of the 1980's, and don't mind hardcore violence or mind it, but want to see a terrific slasher film thats been long forgotten, then The New York Ripper is one film that takes no prisoners. One of the most violent films of Lucio Fulci's career, and if you're familiar with Fulci, then that says something about this film.
  • Beefy
    July 3, 2011
    Beefy
    It's a Fulci film, and as such defies nominal reviewing. Either you're interested in this or not. This one dialed back the gore some but replaced it with sleaze.
  • matertenebraum
    April 14, 2011
    matertenebraum
    A complete suprise to me - having seen Zombie and other Fulci films, with his stereotypical gore and inventive killings (usually at the hands of zombies of some type), Fulci moves completely away from any supernatural tone, to a downtrodden New York in modern-day America. A kille... read morer is on the loose, viciously murdering attractive young women. The difference that struck me with this particular film was immediate - the deaths are so much more realistic and cruel. The camera lingering over every explicit detail. Fulci seems to have set out to combine horror with thriller in this flick, and has done so on almost every level - the horror, however, mostly comes from the extremely realistic feel that this movie has and the downbeaten locations where everything occurs. The vicious murders seem all the more believable as a result.

    I'd read many reviews for this film before finally watching it (in the UK, this film has an almost legendary cult-status; the BBFC actually had the film reels police-escorted out of the country when it was originally sent to them for certification in 1982), but don't necessarily agree with the way everyone mocks the killer's duck-like voice when talking to the police; if anything, it comes across as macabre and there is a reason for it, from a psychological perspective, revealed at the end. Oh yes - the final killing of the cop's girlfriend/prostitute - is every bit as nasty and prolonged as you've heard; the razor being dragged across her open eye and through her nipple, being slashed continually and slowly to ribbons, is just plain mean!

    For me this is by far Fulci's cruelest, most intense piece; Recommended only for Fulci fans and those who want something much more disturbing than any mainstream slasher pic - all others stay away; otherwise this one will leave you feeling depressed for hours afterwards
  • ajv2688
    March 23, 2011
    ajv2688
    This movie does a very good job at keeping the killer's identity a mystery up until the very end, and the gore is really realistic for the most part, but I didn't like how sad the ending was. Overall, it's a pretty good horror mystery, but it could have been a lot better.
  • WrenchLT
    January 22, 2011
    WrenchLT
    The most notorious and sleazy giallo of them all which see's the duck-voiced "New York Ripper" viciously murdering young women around the city that never sleeps. Containing a bunch of graphic stabbings with a strong sexual motive this film may seem overly brutal and perverse, but... read more behind all that is still a decent watchable film if you can stomach it. It's rough around the edges and hardly brilliant, but if you like ultraviolent whodunnit-murder flicks then watch it.
  • harrycaul
    November 10, 2010
    harrycaul
    Without doubt, the goriest, most misogynistic, most depressing giallo I have ever had the displeasure of seeing, and probably the most idiotic too. No one would ever accuse the giallo - a genre whose ingenuity begins and ends with the object of keeping a killer's identity under ... read morewraps for as long as possible - of possessing a surfeit of logic and plausibility. Even so, Fulci takes the biscuit here; no wonder he has a criminal psychologist on hand to explain away the extraordinary behaviour of his characters. Take for instance the poor unfortunate gigolo, falsely accused of being a homicidal maniac, who decides to throw the police off his scent by acting just like a homicidal maniac! Good thinking, Batman. There are one or two good ideas here and there - in particular, a momentarily disorientating scene where we become fearful for the safety of a character whose apparent murder we have just witnessed seconds before - but Fulci isn't a talented enough director to make anything of them. Never the biggest fans of sexualised violence, I think I'm right in saying the British Board of Film Classification have yet to pass the uncut version of this movie. Ordinarily I would be grumbling about censorship right about now, but in this case the British public should really be thanking the BBFC for making a bad movie shorter.
  • ythelastman89
    May 13, 2010
    ythelastman89
    Personally, I feel like this is Lucio Fulci's best and most effective work. Not only does this movie deliver on gore and utter mutilation, it's actually pretty suspenseful and intelligent. Usually with his films you get a sense that he just cares about shock value, but this enfor... read moreces the idea that he really is capable of telling a really powerful story within a bloodbath. The killer is just way too amazing and probably one of the most ruthless and original psychopaths, his bizarre Donald Duck voice really completes the image.
  • adammahler1
    August 13, 2008
    adammahler1
    it's pretty audacious in every way, w/ a stylish approach to the sleaziest parts of NYC; the duck voice will either make you laugh or freak you out like it did me
  • danieljparsons
    June 17, 2007
    danieljparsons
    If The Beyond represents Lucio Fulci at his best, then this is surely one of the nadirs of his career.

    A serial killer, who uses a childish Donald Duck voice (and is actually only mentioned once as a 'ripper') prowls the streets of New York, butchering women in bloody,

    ... read moresexually violent ways. The police detective investigating the gruesome attacks enlists the help of a psychology 'expert' and together they try and track him down before he strikes again.

    Exploitative, homophobic, insipid and violently misogynistic, The New York Ripper has little to recommend it save from some inventive camera work and murky color scheme. Almost without exception the women portrayed in the film are dim-witted, sex-obsessed prostitutes. Even the alleged heroine is without any redeeming characteristics. In addition, the men refer to women as bitches, dummies, little ladies and honeys. The story doesn't even have the decency to be half-way intelligent - the police come to ridiculous conclusions that turn out to be true and without irony (the killer is said to be "young, intelligent, affable, undoubtedly from a good family... there's only one minor defect", as well as "a very intelligent personality, with a refined, cultural family background" despite evidence to the contrary), and motivations make little sense.

    The fact that the film has been banned in several countries unfortunately lends it curiosity value it frankly does not deserve. One to avoid.

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Critic Reviews

Eric Henderson
April 28, 2008
Eric Henderson, Slant Magazine

Sour and pointless. Full Review

David Nusair
January 10, 2003
David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews

The acting is bad, the dubbing atrocious, and the dialogue is even worse. Full Review

Emanuel Levy
November 3, 2005
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

No review available.

Dan Jardine
January 1, 2000
Dan Jardine, Apollo Guide

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