Lo Squartatore di New York (The New York Ripper) (1982)

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• Keiko A

  
  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… More
  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 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%

• Jeff "

  
  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… More
  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. The 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.

• Steve K

  
  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.

• Cassandra M

  
  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 killer is… More
  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 killer 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

• AJ V

  
  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… More
  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.

• Lee ?

  
  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… More
  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 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.

• Stephen M

  
  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… More
  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 wraps 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.

• Conner R

  
  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… More
  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 enforces 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.

• Adam M

  
  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

• Daniel P

  
  If <i>The Beyond</i> represents Lucio Fulci at his best, then this is surely one of the nadirs of his career. <p>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,… More
  If <i>The Beyond</i> represents Lucio Fulci at his best, then this is surely one of the nadirs of his career. <p>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, sexually 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. <p>Exploitative, homophobic, insipid and violently misogynistic, <i>The New York Ripper</i> 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 <i>"young, intelligent, affable, undoubtedly from a good family... there's only one minor defect"</i>, as well as <i>"a very intelligent personality, with a refined, cultural family background"</i> despite evidence to the contrary), and motivations make little sense. <p>The fact that the film has been banned in several countries unfortunately lends it curiosity value it frankly does not deserve. One to avoid.

• John M

  
  An average crime story. As in previews Fulci's films the gore is excessive and very realistic. Well acted and directed film.

• Eduardo C

  
  This one is just as seedy as they come: a sleazy, dirty, grimy slasher film. The New York presented here is a den of sexual degradation. Most of the women presented are extremely sexual and turned on by most of the men presented, who are misogynistic and violent. The entire film, in… More
  This one is just as seedy as they come: a sleazy, dirty, grimy slasher film. The New York presented here is a den of sexual degradation. Most of the women presented are extremely sexual and turned on by most of the men presented, who are misogynistic and violent. The entire film, in fact, has an air of misogyny to it, more so than most of Fulci's other works. Women aren't just killed here but they are targetted because they are women, and it is their femeninity that is used to kill them. The film is a very typical slasher in most regards, but has a few very clever touches. There is a scene where a dream is used as misdirection and only later do we realize what it meant. The entire city is so corrupt that pretty much anyone could plausibly be our killer and the ending, while never coming close to reaching the poetic elegance it aspires to, is decently thought out and even slightly affecting. Fulci's direction is strong. It takes a considerable ammount of effort to make a film that is so unpleasant to watch. I had heard the phrase "the film made me want to go take a shower" before, but this is one film for which it absolutely applies. The sweaty, smelly seediness that permeates everyone and everything is..offputting. The film is what it is. It is not a good film, but it is a well directed one. It is very offensive and little more than an excuse to show women being butchered. There is something to be said, however, for the visceral reaction it generates. For all its faults (and there are a whole hell of a lot) this is not a film that will leave you indifferent.

• Patrick D

  
  Terribly grim, one of the best Fulcis

• Christopher B

  
  Probably one of the sleaziest films I've ever seen. i love it! A nasty, dirty, vile film, with a kickin' soundtrack. And Donald Duck doing the voice work for the killer was a stroke of genius from the maestro. He may not have worked with any huge American celebrities,… More
  Probably one of the sleaziest films I've ever seen. i love it! A nasty, dirty, vile film, with a kickin' soundtrack. And Donald Duck doing the voice work for the killer was a stroke of genius from the maestro. He may not have worked with any huge American celebrities, but DD is quite admirable, even though he wasn't doing much acting then. Watch with someone you love.

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