The New York Ripper (1984)

Best movie of this year hands down!

Masterful Movie

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Effective giallo from the master Fulci where he certainly had the most cruel and nasty gore scenes ever,the picture badly reach around fifteen minutes already have three bodies on the morgue,the duck appears soon and many clues are placed in many directions to bewilder the audience's nose,the movie shown us a portrait of a dirty New York in early 80',many scenes in dowtown with sin's streets with a lot the theatres and nightclubs living for sex miss on sighting...true a time machine!!Resume:First watch: 2018 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7

Insanely brutal, seemingly misogynistic Lucio Fulci thriller tells of a psychopath butchering young women in NYC. But this is no run of the mill creep: they love to taunt the cops while speaking in a Donald Duck type of voice. The world weary detective on the case, Fred Williams (Jack Hedley) teams up with a college psychoanalyst, Paul Davis (Paolo Malco) to try to come up with a profile on their quarry."The New York Ripper" is admittedly not as fun as other Fulci gore epics, mainly because it's operating in a more realistic mode and is therefore more disturbing. The violence perpetrated on these poor, poor women is very damn depraved. At one point, Fulci indulges in a little of that eyeball trauma that he seemed to want to specialize in. A sex show worker (Zora Kerova) gets a broken bottle in the most private of places. Fulcis' favourite whipping girl, Daniela Doria, once again must suffer a horrible fate.Good use of NYC locations, an enjoyable rock score by Francesco De Masi, and (mostly) very convincing gore combine in this 93 minute exercise in sadism. Performances are decent enough, although Hedley's character is lacking in personality. Malco is engaging, though, as is the stunning Almanta Suska as Fay. Director Fulci has his usual cameo; here he plays the Chief of Police.Adding just the right touch of humour and bizarreness are those calls from the killer, doing their duck imitation.You know you're going to be in for some effective horror after the opening set piece of an old man walking his dog. He throws the dog a stick to fetch, and the dog comes back with a severed hand.Eight out of 10.

Reading the latest issue of the UK Horror/Thriller magazine The Dark Side,I was shocked to find out that Lucio Fulci's infamous Giallo was still getting cut for UK DVD editions.Being keen to see the title in all its uncut gory glory,I started to search round online,and was happy to find an uncut R1 edition,which led to me getting ready to see the ripper walk the streets of New York.The plot:New York-Talking to the landlady of a recent murder victim, Lieutenant Fred Williams discovers that the victim had been receiving strange phone calls from a person who talked like a duck.Visiting the local morgue a few days later,Williams talks to pathologist Barry Jones,who tells Williams that a recent murder victim has been brought in,who appears to have been killed in a similar manner.Suspecting that a serial killer is on the loose,Williams begins searching round on the streets for the killer,in the hope of stopping the stranger from quaking again.View on the film:Whilst the film has left an infamous legacy which has led to co- writer/ (along with-deep breath!: Gianfranco Clerici, Gene Luotto, Vincenzo Mannino and Dardano Sacchetti) director Lucio Fulci being called a misogynist,the movie takes a surprisingly even- handed approach to its cast of street trash,with all the women being shown as emotionally empty and being possessed by extreme sexual aggression,whilst all the men are revealed to be self-serving, nihilistic scum,who only become interested in finding the mysterious killer,when one of them (Lt. Fred Williams-played by a wonderfully gruff Jack Hedley) finds his mistress murdered.Taking the Giallo across the pond,the writer's place a tough,gritty cop back drop against a vicious and mean spirited murder mystery,as Williams goes from beating his fellow cops into action,to uncovering a delightfully bonkers and completely left-field motive behind the killings.Filmed on location and backed by an oddly elegant score from the underrated Francesco De Masi,lucio Fulci and cinematographer Luigi Kuveiller pick up the slime on the streets and smear it across the screen,as Fulci and Kuveiller use rapid,tightly-coiled tracking shots to show the characters surrounded by a rotting location.Having the honour of still being banned in an uncut form in the UK,Fulci strikes each of the murder set pieces with a delicious relish,thanks to Fulci bursting ever corner of the screen with waves of burning- hot blood,as the mysterious killer rips the streets of New York.

Having heard of Lucio Fulci so much,I was longing to see his work for a long time & thus I commence with this movie.I have watched the movie in the You-tube with English subtitles. The execution seemed to me a mess- rarely could I connect between successive scenes.It is only toward the end of the movie that I could actually understand what the earlier scenes meant.Also, the identity of the killer being not kept properly under the wrap is one of the reasons why it took me much pain to complete the movie.The movie has lots of sex & nudity scenes, which also makes me tired of watching it.The only excellent point that I find about the movie is the motive of the killer and its truly unique