The New York Ripper Review

Review of The New York Ripper (1982) by screenqueeen: 👍 4/5

It's not often I get to watch Fulci horror during the pandemic but I chose a good one this time. This is '80s NYC Fulci at his sleaziest yet. Surprisingly tame gore effects but measured against a cast of characters who actively participate in sex positive & sex work culture (including the lieutenant) while dancing around a killer with a mildly concerning Donald Duck voice to mask their identity murdering innocent women, things add up in the disturb-o-meter pretty quick. Fulci's penchant for nightmarish cinema starts to take over very slowly throughout the course of this and you don't realize it until the last scene. Probably the most fascinating study he's done on visceral sexually charged female punishment by way of mutilation.