The New York Ripper
Lo squartatore di New York
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.
Why it matters
A brutal dive into early ’80s New York’s grimy underbelly, blending giallo stylization with slasher savagery in a way only Lucio Fulci could deliver.
- Fulci’s trademark visceral practical effects and unflinching violence push boundaries beyond typical slasher fare.
- An unsettling audio design that uses distorted voices to amplify paranoia and urban dread.
- For fans of giallo and grindhouse, it’s a raw snapshot of genre fusion before the slasher boom fully took hold.
- Burned-out detective meets psychoanalyst—a grimy, cynical buddy cop angle rarely this bleak or stylish.
Director
22 horror films in catalog
A Lizard in a Woman's Skin 1971
Don't Torture a Duckling 1972
The Psychic 1977
Zombie Flesh Eaters 1979
City of the Living Dead 1980
The House by the Cemetery 1981
The Beyond 1981
The Black Cat 1981
The New York Ripper 1982
Manhattan Baby 1982
Conquest 1983
Murder-Rock: Dancing Death 1984
Ænigma 1987
Zombie Flesh Eaters 2 1988
Touch of Death 1988
Sodoma's Ghost 1988
The Sweet House of Horrors 1989
The House of Clocks 1989
A Cat in the Brain 1990
Demonia 1990
Voices from Beyond 1991
Door Into Silence 1991
Cast
Horror DNA
Gore
100
Slow Burn
50
Psychological
43
Supernatural
0
Creature
0
Disturbing
100
Fun Factor
17
Cerebral
14
Survival
50
Serial Killer
