The New York Ripper
The New York Ripper Italian Lo squartatore di New York is a 1982 Italian giallo film directed and cowritten by Lucio Fulci. The film score was written by Francesco De Masi. The film was banned in many countries or released as an adultsonly movie after heavy editing. Whilst most of Lucio Fulcis other films have been released uncut in the United Kingdom, The New York Ripper remains censored to this day, even for its 2011 DVD and Bluray releases.
Meanwhile, a young woman Cinzia de Ponti rides her bicycle down Manhattan to the Staten Island Ferry at Battery Park. After an altercation with a boorish motorist driving a red Volkswagen, whose car she accidentally scratched riding her bicycle, she rides onto the boat with the man yelling misogynist slurs at her. When the ferry is underway, the young woman sneaks into the carbay and begins vandalizing the mans car, but she is interrupted by an unseen figure. Introducing herself as Rosie, she tries to engage the man in a conversation. But the figure adopts a grotesque Donald Duck voice and brutally murders her with a switchblade, slashing open her right breast and stabbing in the lower abdomen and disemboweling her, then leaving her body to be discovered when the ferry docks at Staten Island. At the morgue, Lt. Williams talks to Barry Jones the pathologist Giordano Falzoni, who believes he recognizes the style of the killing and links it to AnnLynne, as well as a similar case in Harlem the previous month.Having informed the press that a serial killer is at large, Williams is visited at the station by New Yorks chief of police Lucio Fulci. Williams skeptical superior tells him not to make any further public announcements about the case to avoid starting a citywide panic. Soon after the police chief leaves, Williams is notified that a man sounding like a duck phoned while he was out at the press conference wanting to speak with him. Williams travels to Columbia University where he meets with a brilliant young psychotherapy professor named Dr. Paul Davis Paolo Malco for help in creating a profile of the killer. ........
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