 Thanks for checking out this movie review video This is for the 1982 film at the New York Ripper and this is a Lucio Fulci film And if people know me they know that this is in my wheelhouse of one of my favorite sub genres of horror Which is giallo, which was an Italian movement of these kind of mystery who done it type things they always have People getting killed usually slashed up and it's usually like someone in a trench coat with black gloves Although that doesn't really happen in this But that's kind of how it started and giallo a lot of fun in my opinion. There's always some sort of twist the whole thing is Let's figure out who's done this and I think there are a lot of red herrings in this film much like a lot of giallo films Some that I think worked pretty well and some that were kind of like eh, but overall it's okay as a giallo film This isn't one of my favorite giallo films, but decent so when I watched it I watched it off the blue underground Lucio Fulci collection blu-ray set that I got recently from Diabolic DVD when they were having their blue underground sale but Either when this review comes out or not long after there should this movie The New York Ripper should be on shutter streaming because shutter is about to drop a lot of giallo films in December And I'm getting very excited for it. So you may end up seeing a lot of reviews So this is not my first Fulci film. I've done I've done a bunch. So I'm pretty familiar with Fulci style I actually have a whole playlist on the channel for Fulci reviews If you want to check that one out and this will be in it as well So obviously directed by Lucio Fulci And this was the year after he did the black cat the beyond and the house by the cemetery Yes, all three of those films came out in the same year of those three I haven't seen the black cat, but I've seen the beyond and the house by the cemetery fun Actually house by the cemetery is on here and one of his favorite films of mine the city of the living dead It was written by Fulci Along with a bunch of other dudes here the other people Dardano Siketti who has worked with a lot of Italian directors in the past He's done some scripts for things like demons demons to 1990 the Bronx warriors the scorpion with two tails a bay of blood and cat oh nine tails Vincenzo Menino who was involved with scripts for carnal circuit the man with icy eyes The killer is on the phone syndicate sadists Formula for a murder and phantom of death I'm just naming some for all of these because they have a lot of writing credits on IMDb Gianfranco Clarici Who's done the bloodstained a butterfly don't torture a duckling which is also a luchio fulci directed film Nazi Love Camp 27? Jungle Holocaust Phantom of Death and Cannibal Holocaust which a lot of people will know that title very infamous This film probably no surprise people was banned in the UK until 2002 it seems like the UK was banning all sorts of films especially Italian films because of their gore and violence Fulci called this film a tribute to Alfred Hitchcock, which I guess I kind of see it It's a little different him saying it's a tribute to Hitchcock. That's fine if you would have said this is my take on Hitchcock or I Would have rolled my eyes would be like oh come on, but he said tribute fine Siketti has said he's on the record in an interview had said that the sexual content in this came from Fulci and That he had a quote profound sadism towards women I'm assuming this would happen after Fulci was dead because I don't know a friend because Siketti and Fulci worked together a lot and they were friends I don't know a friend who would say something about you like that in person. I it's it's weird It's kind of messed up. So Also, who were you as a person for a friend to actually say that publicly about you makes you wonder And you do see it in the film. Obviously. It is pretty brutal It's very Unflinching and showing a lot of violence towards women and a lot of sexuality as well But I'll talk a little bit more about that stuff in a bit the read the lead role for this was originally offered to catch Ketriana Call who had starred in city of the living dead the beyond and the house by the cemetery But she ended up turning it down. She didn't really like the role Fulci plays the chief of police in this so look out for that. He's in there And if people didn't catch it michelle suave the guy who directed stage fright and has a very small part in demons as the guy with like the Half metal mask on giving out the tickets in the beginning of the film He shows up very briefly in this film He is buying a newspaper with what looks like his girlfriend at the newsstand when uh, dr. Lodge is there buying some Pornography which I think that that by the way I think that scene is supposed to be a red herring and the reason I say that is because he's buying gay porn and then obviously it's you know Hidden in a newspaper by the person who he's purchasing it from But I think that's supposed to be a hint to people that maybe he's the killer give them that kind of idea because Maybe he hates women so much because he's not you know I think it's just supposed to plant that little seed. You know, obviously remember this was 1982 so you know People who are gay were were shown in very different light back then unfortunately Uh, I saw it coming in this film in the very very beginning of it that the dog would end up coming back with a severed hand Were the guys playing fetch with him? As soon as that was going on I was like he's gonna find a body and then I started thinking while it was going on What would he bring back and I'm like it's got to be a hand That's kind of the only thing the dog could really bring back unless it's a foot or something. So I ended up being totally right Um, it's weird that they then though focus on the severed hand and freeze frame on it To have the opening credits and title and everything It's kind of weird that they freeze on that. I find it kind of funny now But the music that then kicks in is awesome And that's one of the big things about giallo films and italian horror in general from From the time periods of like 60 70s 80s That uh, the music was so good so interesting, but it's always mismatch for what you assume for horror It's always very like upbeat and funky and fun And I don't know. I just dig that about these italian horror films It's not the only thing but it's one thing that I really like And these songs and it's no different in the new york ripper They just worm their way into your head like literally I was done watching this film and hours later I'm walking around the house humming the main tune to the film They just they're so catchy and fun They do a good job of setting up a hustling and bustling city environment. They can vase how people can just get lost and basically be forgotten Um, you know, that's kind of a new york thing and how seedy it looks to it looks very Seedy it looks very dark. It looks very shifty Uh, but you can also see that with with all the kind of deviant think deviant things going on with the live sex shows And tons of places for that Uh, that it just looks like People could just get lost. There's a lot of people that people just don't care about so much So it creates this kind of dark Brooding disgusting type of environment, which I think really elevates the overall Atmosphere of the film itself The duck quacking of the killer is unbelievably weird I don't like I understand why it's done because this is kind of a callback for lucio fulci to Don't torture a duckling because there's a donald duck um There's a donald duck figure that ends up being used in don't torture a duckling to signal Who the killer may be? And that is done again in the new york ripper actually With you know, the girl in the hospital who's you know, not going to live peter's daughter peter and fey's daughter That girl not um having that duck doll and that's supposed to be just like in don't torture a duckling It's supposed to signify look here. There is a connection to the killer right here So I think it's kind of fun that there's that commonality between the two films But the whole like making the killer quack. I think that's a little bit extra Once again, I understand how why you would do that But I I don't think that was necessarily needed because when you find out whose daughter that is That's the connection. That's where you should be making the connection It's that extra step of having the killer then quack Which you don't really need because then that's that's Tying the quacking to the duck and then to the girl You don't really need all that all you need is the girl to the duck and then that's you know It's peter's daughter. Like really that's all you need The close-up stabbings and slashings are very effective in this because they're very very violent. They're very gory But since they focus on them so much It kind of gives you enough time to really see how you how you could think they would have pulled it off Like you can see because it's so close up that like when they're doing the slashings Especially the first one in the parked car on that ferry boat Um that they probably you know, they just had like fake skin and they had like a bunch of guts put in under it And then they just you know did the slash and like push the guts out You know, it's pretty easy to see that stuff The scene of the woman masturbating at the live sex show is excessively long So much so that it's unbelievably boring. I understand the whole you know It's lurid throw sexual content in there all that types of stuff And it was way more popular back in the 80s 70s all that but uh watching it nowadays. It's just like It's boring. It's too much I think part of that has to do with the availability of pornography on the internet Just makes things like that less interesting also Also very long and boring was the towing scene I guess is what I would call it instead of fingering the towing scene Where the guy's shoving his foot up the woman's vagina. I don't Fulci And sketty weird, you know, they throw some weird things in there and uh, yeah That's one of the things and even if you're going to do that like, okay fine. It's this weird like quirky thing Why why was the scene so long? It's just excessive I think it was more it seems more it was for their their gratification than anything else It's pretty funny when the ripper ends up calling Williams the detective and is doing that wacky voice over the phone Because that's not just the quacking, but it's also his, you know, kind of changed voice Which, you know sounds cartoonish to match It's weird and and Excuse me. It's weird how disinterested Williams is when he's being given the profile information On the ripper by dr. Lodge and that happens a lot a lot of the times when dr. Lodge is kind of trying to feed information to Williams He's it looks like he's thinking about other things and he's not very focused. He looks bored. He's not very interested That's a weird aspect of the character of Williams. I think I don't know if people agree with me on that or not So the guy with the two fingers I want to go to this the scene where he's in bed with the woman and then he gets up and he goes make a phone Call obviously in retrospect when he's making that phone call He turns the music up really far so the woman who's tied to the bed can't hear what he's saying Um, obviously that's when he's calling peter because they reveal later that peter was using that guy mickey to um To basically find women to bring women to him and then he would end up killing them while torturing and killing them Um, but with that scene like then he falls asleep and she's uh becomes awake and she wants to get away The the moment where like he kind of wakes up and then he's like groping her in her sleep Is that legitimately what's happening? It's like it's sleep groping going on with that, dude Your opinion. I don't know. It was weird When the woman in the hotel gets carved up You know, this is right after that scene. I just talk about It's shot really well. I like how it's shot. It's very intense quick cuts the knife Especially when it's like coming at the camera looks really good And how they cut between the knife coming at the camera and then showing it going into her body It feels intense. It's very and it feels very realistic. It's like a pov shot thing too, which makes it more intense I really like how they did that Dr. Lodge talking about the killer's background as sophisticated. It isn't an intelligent I feel like it's kind of a nod to the audience that mickey is not the killer Because he's not portrayed as sophisticated or Intelligent in the film. He's very, you know at the surface. He's also not trying to you know cover anything up He's he's very out in the open and very aggressive with going after the women So that's kind of the nod to the audience that it is not mickey even though that's who you're thinking I mean, that's who looks most Obvious at this point in time But the audience should also know That it's not mickey because of the whole dichotomy of donald duck mickey mouse I think that was an intentional thing that they used here the connection of the killer with the duck And the fact that mickey's name is mickey mickey versus donald. They're not the same I think that's supposed to be a hint with the name of mickey I like the clever twist of the ripper fooling the cops by using the walkie talkie in the phone booth I literally thought that they were going to end up catching him or you know almost catching him at that point But when they get there and that's just the walkie talkie in the phone booth. I was like, oh cool Um, and I also like the twist at that point not long after you learned where you know Peter was using mickey to get the women Which was a great smart thing by the new york ripper to kind of put that separation between them Even further The razor cutting down the woman's forehead and over her eye is a pretty crazy scene It looks really good. I mean obviously it was you know fake when they did it But they did a good job because they kept the eyeball moving around I I assume someone's manually manipulating the eyeball from underneath But it looked real it looked close to real It was it was pretty good and when they just go like down and all the way over the eye Yeah, I could see that being pretty tough for some people to watch. Good job on that Peter being the killer was foreshadowed in phase nightmare if people did not catch that In her crazy nightmare. She ends up dreaming that Peter stabbed and killed her So that is the foreshadowing early on But it's easy for people to kind of forget about that as the film keeps going Because they then keep throwing all these other red herrings at you one of the other red herrings being How they keep showing dr. Lodge playing chess And very early on in the film when they cut to him doing that after they had Williams talking about You know the ripper. I thought that was a visual indicator of You know, it's going to be dr. Lodge. He'll end up being the new york ripper, but that was wrong So i'm glad that they threw some other stuff in here and it ended up not being dr. Lodge Lodge basically Says peter created the duck as an alter ego to kill women because his daughter would never live to become one It was kind of my Response to the reasoning behind the killer You know, I would be interested in other people's opinions. Did you like that about it? Did you not like that? I give it points for doing its own thing in that respect having its own twist And when you keep making giallo films, it's a little hard to continually You know, fool people or misdirect people or come up with new Reasonings for why the killer is the killer. So I mean points for originality, I guess, but it's it's not that compelling in my opinion Note that they focus on the duck figure at the girl daughter's bedside They intentionally do that and then pan over to her at one point This is similar to the clue of the killer given in don't torture duckling because like I was talking about They also have a time where they focus on A figure a duck figure and then pan away. So just saying How seedy everything is enhances the overall gross feeling of the film I already talked about that the music is by Francesco da Masi. It is great It doesn't match the material like most italian horror films, but I love love love it It bears repeating that I love the music kind of makes me want the soundtrack Does that make me weird? Well, I have Spotify. It's probably on Spotify. I'll do that And then maybe I'll just listen to some goblin as well Two degree of this speaks to the unhealthy way people lash out at society because of their personal hardships Placing blame when there really is no blame to be placed anywhere. It's just easier to focus Anger outwardly. So I think really what you're getting at with with, you know, Peter going out and killing women because he's got this anger issue Basically about how his daughter will never grow up to become a woman It plays to this whole issue of people having a hard time dealing with Terrible things that happen in their life that don't have a reason that aren't Facilitated by another human being that you can direct your anger at and take revenge upon So in this instance, it's so hard for Peter to deal with that he basically, you know, snaps psychologically And creates this alter ego who places the blame on all women and goes after and starts killing them As kind of like a revenge as an outlet to get the anger out to get the frustration out to make it easier to deal with So I think that's basically what's at play here now All that said, like I said, this isn't my favorite giallo film But I enjoyed it enough. It was worth watching for sure. So out of five stars with half stars in play I'm going to give it a relatively solid three star rating Um, I thought about going down to two and a half But the fact that they, you know Kept it kind of fresh did their own thing plus the music bumped me up to that three stars So three stars on the new york ripper by lucio fulci Good times. Anyway, put your thoughts down here Like I said, you're probably going to be seeing a lot more giallo popping up on this channel because that's what I want to watch I think my next one is after this might be the strange vice of mrs. Ward by Sergio Martino I think that's what i'm going to do, but i'm going to keep going so Also put some recommendations down here for other giallo films You think I should definitely check out and review and I'll look into that but Regardless, I thank you for watching this. Do me a quick favor though. 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