1982 · giallo · horror · gore
The New York Ripper
Directed by Lucio Fulci1h 33m1982
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.
Our read: The New York Ripper (1982) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive giallo · horror · gore entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme giallo / horror, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
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