Original title: Lo squartatore di New York
Released: March 4, 1982 (Italy)
Lucio Fulci returns to the giallo genre with 1982s ‘New York Ripper’ after a legendary run of supernatural horror in ‘City Of The Living Dead’, ‘The Beyond’ and ‘Zombi 2’. The story introduces a rogues gallery of some of the seediest and grittiest characters ever committed to a script written days before filming. As a master of gore, Fulci absolutely delivers with innovative and brazen depictions of flesh-ripping, eyeball slicing and genital gouging with a broken bottle. Fulci himself appears in a cameo as the chief. The whodunnit aspect keeps us guessing all the while continuing to outdo itself with both brutal murders and sexual depravity. The writing is a bit frantic, not to mention misogynistic, but the panorama of genuine 1980s New York and its willingness to shock makes New York Ripper one of the best of the worst giallo, well worth a watch or returning to again and again.
Director: Lucio Fulci
Stars: Jack Hedley, Almanta Suska, Howard Ross
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084719/
Wikipedia: https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Ripper
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“A burned-out New York police detective teams up with a college psychoanalyst to track down a vicious serial killer randomly stalking and killing various young women around the city.” [IMDb]