What a beautiful movie!

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

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

Not really. But this movie does feature a killer who, for some reason that is never really explained, enjoys talking like Donald Duck. Such is the weirdness that comes with this Italian Galeio film. One of the weirder and less coherent of Lucio Fulci's masterpiece, this still has plenty of the expected gore, but for a Fulci film, its pretty restrained in this. Personally, this isn't one of my favorite of his movies, but it does have its moments, some of it unintentionaly hilarious, like the aforementioned killers Donald duck voice.

This movie its amazing, not only is it a well made giallo but its also one of the sleazier ones, one of my favorite Lucio Fulci movies, there's gore, nudity and even better, one of the most memorable killers on cinema history, a killer that talks like Donald Duck, just genius, the movie its you typical giallo or slasher movie, there's a killer who kills people and the police must catch him, but its the way its done what really matters, Fulcis direction its very spectacular in all of his movies, in this one hes a bit more subtle than in something like The Beyond, but still very good, there's a lot of debate regarding to who the killer is, many people suggest its one of the people who helped to catch him or the character that's the more likely to be, the father, the characters are great, they are all sleazy bastards, there are great quotes on this movie and some memorable moments, its great.

It's easy to see this film as an over the top gore and sleaze fest, because superficially that's what it is, but am I the only one who thought that The New York Ripper was Fulci's first attempt at parody, in the vein of Cat in the Brain?I get the feeling here that this film is Fulci's attack on the US and what viewers in the states want from Italian movies. He sets it in and around 42nd street, where many of these splatter films played, and uses that general area to wallow in the gore and sex, cranking up the violence to absurd levels, as he did in Cat in the Brain. It's as if he's saying 'This is what you want, so this is what you get' while having the killer speak like a duck, referring back to a much subtler play on the same theme. A reference to what used to sell in the US. As for the misogyny angle, I think that by having the killer played by the first openly gay Italian actor Fulci's having a bit of an in joke himself. I'm no film critic (as you can tell) but throughout the film Fulci seems to keep referring to the subtlety of horror, as can by noted by the final scene, which contains true, hopeless horror of disabled girl left without a father. That one scene for me convinces me that Fulci was trying to say 'Well, you've got gore and nudity, but here's true terror'. The girl asking for her father, alone in hospital, not knowing he's dead (and a killer), is Fulci's slap in the face to horror fans. It's the one truly chilling scene in the entire film. Maybe I'm reading too much into what's there, but he does the exact same thing again in Cat in the Brain. Perhaps he thought that the message in New York Ripper was too carefully hidden. Either that, or I've gone crazy watching too many Italian horror films.