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New York City: It s A Nice Place To Visit But You Wouldn t Want To Die There!A blade-wielding psychopath is on the loose turning The Big Apple bright red with the blood of beautiful young women. As NYPD detectives follow the trail of butchery from the decks of the Staten Island Ferry to the sex shows of Times Square each brutal murder becomes a sadistic taunt. In the city that never sleeps he s the killer that can t be stopped!Written and directed by acclaimed horror maestro Lucio Fulci (ZOMBIE CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD) and filmed on location in the mean streets of New York City THE NEW YORK RIPPER is one of Fulci s most savage and controversial thrillers and is presented here completely uncut and uncensored.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR/KILLER UPC: 827058112291 Manufacturer No: 827058112291

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5 out of 5 stars

Guaranteed to make you squirm. June 12, 2008
11 out of 11 found this review helpful

The New York Ripper was a great Italian horror film from Lucio Fulci, the film was filled with plenty of gruesome death scenes and lots of sleaze, sex and nudity in fact its probably one of the sleaziest Italian horror flicks I've ever seen. The film was also out of stock for a while so I was glad when I heard about the good news, it was finally being re-released by Blue Underground they've been doing a great job lately, the picture quality was great with no grains and it's completely uncut with a widescreen 2.35:1 aspect ratio looking and sounding better than ever. The New York Ripper was also notorious for being banned in the U.K. and it was included in the video nasties list, this is easily one of Lucio Fulci's darkest and goriest films out there (O.K. maybe not THE goriest, I still think that Cat In The Brain holds that title), there is one scene that was quite sick and perverse thats guaranteed to make you squirm, yes I'm talking about the "Golden Toes" scene WTF!!!. When an old man finds a prostitute's severed hand under the Brooklyn Bridge the police decide to do a little investigating. It seems that the victim was heard speaking to a strange duck-voiced man. As the murders add up the police detective who's investigating the case recruits a psychology professor to help find out who this Donald Duck voiced maniac could be, theres also a subplot involving a woman (Alessandra Delli Colli from Dr. Butcher M.D.) who enjoys being perverse and records her exploits on a tape recorder for her husband, there was also a bit of suspense which was nicely done by Fulci I was actually surprised by this, I was expecting a lot of badly edited and shot sequences but there weren't that many in this film. This is a typical Fulci flick which means that the plot gets thinner during the course of the film and the bad acting which was adequate especially for this type of film could have been better but thats not important, if your a hardcore Fulci or exploitation fan then you'll obviously love this as the death scenes were quite brutal and very nasty it includes nipple slicing, a face being carved up and mutilated, a young woman being stabbed with a large knife in her vagina and ripped open etc. this is definetely NOT a date movie unless your date was a psychotic maniac ;-), this is obviously not going to appeal to those who are easily offended or those who have a weak stomach so you have been warned. The New York Ripper was done in the early 80's and it was made during the period when Lucio Fulci was still making good movies as he previously made his classic zombie films The Beyondand City of the Living Dead, the film was nicely shot using different locations in N.Y. and some seedier places like the xxx theaters and sleazy motels. I have to admit that I really liked this film alot and it was one of Fulci's best, while not a classic like Zombi 2 (25th Anniversary Special Edition 2-Disc Set) it was still great and enjoyable. Hats of to Blue Underground for releasing a classic sleazy Lucio Fulci film and making it available, I highly recommend this and two thumbs up QUACK!!! ;-).

3 out of 5 stars

Hardcore Ed Wood April 7, 2008
7 out of 14 found this review helpful

A reputation can be a terrible thing. In the napalm-blast of

1980s' fear concerning movie violence, many worthless slices of

cinematic dross acquired undeserving kudos by virtue of the

'video-nasty' label, while several genuine works of art (A

Clockwork Orange, The Evil Dead) were dragged under the wheels of

the juggernaut of public paranoia.
Fulci's The New York Ripper is a film that deserves to be

extricated from the censor's dungeon and reappraised, not as a

shamelessly mistreated classic but as a video-era schlocker

that's tacky, tonally incompetent and, above all, completely

harmless. Fulci's silly slasher belongs to the subgenre of balls

'n' all gore films that can trace their lineage back to the

bloody, zero-value outpouring of Herschell Gordon Lewis. The plot

lurches unevenly from one torture-scene to the next, with a

near-comatose Jack Hedley as a nominal hero cop who sleepwalks

through the mire of cod-psychology and seedy sexuality that Fulci

favours in lieu of a decent script. Just as in hardcore porn,

plotting, characterisation, dialogue and direction are irrelevant

window-dressing to the money-shots of flesh-ripping on display.

There is a gleeful sadism evident in the scenes of

broken-bottle/vaginal interface, nipple-slicing and eye

bisection, but nothing that will faze fans of the Hostel or Saw

franchises. Indeed, there is an almost quaint, kitsch appeal to

the ropey latex mutilations, with Fulci's stark, almost careless

camerawork resolutely embracing the no-frills style of

exploitation cinema.This truly is the stuff that Eli Roth's

wet-dreams are made of.
Lit like a peepshow, and boasting just as much cheap titillation

with as little artistic merit, Fulci's Ripper is a camp curiosity

that offers some basic sustenance to gorehounds with an interest

in the history of the genre. The absurdity of the 'duck-voiced

killer' conceit suggests that Fulci probably didn't take this

nonsense too seriously, an approach which every viewer should

wholeheartedly adopt. You may baulk in disgust at a few moments

of lingering body-horror; but mostly you'll just spend the 93

minutes' running time sniggering.

3 out of 5 stars

Solid 80's horror from Fulci September 23, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful

If you're viewing this product you most likely know who Lucio Fulci is and what type of films he is famous for, so we'll skip the history lesson and the usual paragraph of unconditional fawning that would normally start a review of one of his movies.

Fulci takes a little break from super natural/fantasy type of horror with The New York Ripper and gives us an attempt at a more realistic story about a serial killer in the Big Apple. That's not to say the gore that he's known for isn't present, the guts are in abundance here and the sleaze factor runs at an all time high! Ripper tells the story of a NY detective on the trail of a killer who seemingly targets young promiscuous women and disposes of them in some exceptionally brutal ways. Oh, and he talks like Donald Duck too.

The main premise of the story is pretty straight forward, however during the segments in between murder scenes it gets pretty dull and becomes difficult to follow with its ill-timed introductions to new characters half way through the movie. The ending and identity of the killer should come as a surprise as vital details of the story clumsily emerge in the final minutes. With a lack of any truly likable or interesting characters, I'd have to say The New York Ripper was just okay for me. Obviously commenting on plot points in a Fulci flick is rather pointless, but even with the heavy gore I felt the movie was just a few notches above mediocre. I recommend it to hardcore Fulci/gore fans.

1 out of 5 stars

So beginneth the Fulci rant..... September 26, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

For the life of me (no pun intended) I have no idea why I rented so many Fulci films. I've seen a lot of his catalog, and this one (along with Cat in the Brain) has to be the worst. It's one of his most "infamous".
It's his most infamous because of a serial killer doing a Donald Duck impression and seeing a lot of women cut up in various gruesome and sick, sick ways. The film has all the usual Fulci ingredients: bad story, atrocious dialogue, bad dubbing (though I'm sure this would be a piece of garbage in Italian as well), crappy camera work, just all around unprofessional, tacky, and a complete waste of time. I kick myself a lot when I decided "I should give this guy a chance", so I saw a lot of his films (too many), and I dread the name Fulci, as it is synonymous with "worst films ever made".

I think the BBFC did the larger viewing public a disservice when they classified this as a "video nasty" (and other Fulci works), because it made many people go out and seek it out. They should have just let it slide through and labeled it "mediocre, preposterously s****y, enormous toilet dropping of a movie". I sometimes think that because Fulci is so reviled by many that people assume he must be a genius that "film snobs" or "elites" don't get. This isn't true at all. He's just a really bad filmmaker who made a couple of decent films (Zombie is his most consistent), and upped the gore quotient in the horror genre. Just because a government body like the BBFC (British Board of Film Censors) ban stuff like this doesn't make it art, you know.

So endeth the Fulci rant.....

2 out of 5 stars

Not a Fulci classic. May 5, 2008
1 out of 6 found this review helpful

After waiting forever to see this film, perhaps I was too built up. Lots of Fulci fans list this film as one of his best. However I think it's nowhere near the level of City of The Living Dead or The Beyond. Not even as good as House by the Cemetery IMO. You've been warned.

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