The New York Ripper

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, this is one of Fulci's most savage and controversial thrillers. Now remastered in blood-soaked High-Definition from its original camera negative, THE NEW YORK RIPPER is presented completely uncut and uncensored with exclusive new Extras!

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"I'm an Actress!" - Interview with Zora Kerova
NYC Locations Then and Now
Theatrical Trailer

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Color
5.1 Dolby Digital Surround EX; Original Mono
English
Optional Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish
2.35:1 / 16x9
1982
93 Mins
Not Rated
Region Code: 0

Lucio Fulci does it again in Blue Underground's Special Edition release of The New York Ripper. Lauded as "The most controversial horror film ever made."
It certainly delivers a large measure of the bizzare! From the seedy sex clubs of old New York, to posh penthouse apartments, this killer certainly gets around! It seems someone is going around the big apple slicing up pretty girls! Could it be the 8 fingered Greek? The cops are closing in as this psycho wrecks his vengeance on the women of New York. A brilliant psychologist is enlisted for the task of profiling the killer to narrow it down, and in a ctiy the size of New York, you need it as narrow as possible, right? I mean, no clues, no witnesses, just an inexplicable penchant for talking like a duck. yes. you read that correctly. It seems the killer, for some reason, uses the voice of a duck when making his taunting phone calls to the police. Stranger things have happened though, so they quickly simply dub him "ducky" and get on with trying to figure out who the hell he (wait a minute!) or she is! Why is the killer slicing people up? Whats with the voice of the duck? All these questions and many more are answered in this fantastic psycho-thriler from the dawn of serial killer movies. "the man with two missing fingers" so damn ominous sounding, for some reason, yet for all we know, he lost them fixing a lawn mower. This is a good example of the devices used by Fulci in this film to keep you guessing. I was certainly guessing rrrright up until the end. and I mean RIGHT up to it. I swear , I was all "Of course!" and then literally two seconds later, "what?!?!?" So brilliant. Insane people make for good endingings. and this movie has a doozy!