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Summary: Misogynistic, sleazy low point for Fulci
Review: I could hardly stand to watch this garbage. A serial killer bumps off attractive women (they're Italian, so attractiveness is almost a given) with various bladed implements, while talking like Donald Duck. I kid you not. If that's entertainment I'd rather watch F Troop until my brain becomes oatmeal. It is unnervingly gory but so sleazy overall that nothing positive can come out of the experience of watching this junk. Avoid if you have any shred of decency.
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Summary: Classic Fulci
Review: I dont know why this movie is bashed and made fun of. In my opinion, its classic italian horror. Its contraversial subject matter, and not to mention, overall violence make it something great. I wouldn't call it a basic slasher. It goes beyond that. Its psychological elements also show that it has something of a storyline (unlike most other italian gore epics). So what if the killer talks like a duck. It amused me, anyway...
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Summary: Sadistic ripper
Review: I felt sick when first saw this so called giallo masterpiece .The film isn't even close to Fulci's best films such as House by the cemetary or Beyond ,but it isn't as bad like Rome 2033 or Cat in the brain aka. Nightmare concert .The film tells about a serial killer who has disgust against "loose" women such as hookers strippers etc. To solve this problem the killer mutilates the victims in a gory scenes such as slicing victims nipples which is shown very grotesque way .The dialoque on the film is very funny though and the Donald Duck like voice of the killer is making you wonder is this suppose to be a very sick comedy or just truly bad horror flick .I would rather recommend Jess Franco's Jack the ripper or Dario Argento's Bird with a crystal plummage if you're looking for good eurothriller stuff .Picture quality of the DVD is not that great ,but still better than any other VHS version of the film .Sound is a bit bigger disappointment ,but if you are hardcore fan of Fulci or Italian giallo cinema then this DVD should be in you're DVD collection .
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Summary: Sub-par Fulci Flick, or Unreasonable Expectations?
Review: i have seen several Fulci movies and have been shocked by something in each one. In "The New York Ripper," i was somewhat disappointed. Part of it, i think, is that i saw it took place in New York City, and was expecting New York actors and well written English dialogue, instead of the poor dubbing that is associated with his movies. That was probably my fault for expecting that from an Italian director. However, that aside, i found the murder and gore to be sub-par compared to the things i've seen in "Zombie," "City of the Living Dead," and even the apparently horribly butchered version of "The Beyond" i own entitled "Seven Doors of Death." With this movie, what i was really hoping to find was a gritty, more reality-based Fulci movie with the same brutal viciousness and gore offered by his other more supernatural-themed movies. However, what it lacked in gore it more than made up for with blatant misogyny, which was ever-present and strong throughout this movie, ensuring to stroke the woman-hater in all of us. (What, "there's no woman-hater in [you]," you say? Right, and michael jackson only had two nose jobs.) i guess Fulci was trying to focus more on sexual excess and perversion that can sometimes be a prominent aspect of human nature, than on the excessive gore that typified his movies in this one, but it just didn't really seem to work very well. Overall, the characters are as shallow as in any of his movies, the plot is somewhat hackneyed, and the gore is not nearly what i had come to expect from a Lucio Fulci movie. However, it did have its moments, such as the razor blade bisecting the nipple, and is definitely worth the watch and probably the purchase too, especially for the Fulci fan, as well as any other disturbed individuals who enjoy gorging themselves on violence and the humiliation and degradation of other people, namely women (not that i condone that sort of thing.)
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Summary: Not bad
Review: I have to say that if you want to see Fulci's masterpiece, check out the Beyond (before you see this). There just isn't much gore here. However, lots of hot girls get naked and get it on. I was surprised at the amount of sex scenes, which is what saved it from a 2 star rating. The killer's duck voice is very funny , but I found the amount of bloodshed dissapointing. Only a few good scenes of cutting up girls. If you are a gore hound I would suggest looking elsewhere.
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Summary: Classic Fulci
Review: I know people who hate this film and I can't see why. Since I have owned the film I've seen it 10-15 times and it keeps getting better. This is a horror/ murder mystery tied in with sex and the macbre. The DVD has a Fulci bio, the trailer, and it is the widescreen presentation. Anchor Bay clean up the audio for both the DVD/VHS re-release. Highly recommended. If you are looking for a story like "The Beyond" you will be disappointed because this film is like no other (it will keep you guessing) and hopefully the gore will impress you.
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Summary: Donald Duck on a killing spree!
Review: I simply cannot understand why Lucio Fulci has many devoted fans. So far I've seen The house by the cemetary, Manhattan baby, Zombie, City of the living dead and this one. What's good about this director? Seriously?
Commenting on this film only; It's horribly acted, plain disgusting, cheap looking, badly photographed. In fact everything about this film spells: AMATEUR.
And all of the above mentioned films by Fulci are about as good as this one.
Best of all; the scary killer makes noises like a duck when he's slaying. PLEASE!
Some of my friends keep telling me to view "Don't torture a duckling" before I brand Fulci perminantly, so I will. I hope it's better than these films.
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Summary: Donald Duck on a killing spree!
Review: I simply cannot understand why Lucio Fulci has many devoted fans. So far I've seen The house by the cemetary, Manhattan baby, Zombie, City of the living dead and this one. What's good about this director? Seriously?
Commenting on this film only; It's horribly acted, plain disgusting, cheap looking, badly photographed. In fact everything about this film spells: AMATEUR.
And all of the above mentioned films by Fulci are about as good as this one.
Best of all; the scary killer makes noises like a duck when he's slaying. PLEASE!
Some of my friends keep telling me to view "Don't torture a duckling" before I brand Fulci perminantly, so I will. I hope it's better than these films.
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Summary: Prepare yourself for this one...
Review: If you're looking for academy award winning performances in this film, you need help...If you're looking to see something shocking, you're in luck.
The first time I saw this flick, I had to close my eyes in several parts-it is that gory. Some of the things Fulci shows in detail in this movie have never and probably will never be shown again in popular film.
In short, there is not much plot...a duck quacking loony is slashing women. But if you love horror, this one is well worth seeing for sure. Just make sure there is no one home that could possibly be offended...because if they walk in while you're watching this, I guarantee you they'll be offended.
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Summary: Incoherent, but then again, that's Fulci
Review: If you've seen any of Lucio Fulci's films, you know that this is a man who doesn't care so much about the plot of the film he's making so much so as shocking you into a traumatic state with all the gore-effects he throws at the screen like a splash painter with a brush full of paint. The screen is Fulci's canvas, the blood is his paint, and you can never tell quite what you're looking at, but you know it's disgusting in a lot of parts. Fulci's other films (that I've seen) include "Zombie," "The Gates of Hell (City of the Living Dead)," and "The Beyond." The latter is the best film I've seen from the director, but this one I would rank right underneath it, mostly because it does exactly what it sets out to do, it disturbs us with its gore-effects, and it's endless brutality against women. The other Fulci-isms are there, too: An eyeball gag, tons of gratuitous nudity, and point of view shots we'd rather not see (in this case, a woman's erogenous zones looking down a broken glass bottle, but we'll ignore that for now so I can type without littering the screen with my vomit). The plot of the film is very simplistic, like any cop caper you see on TV at two in the morning on USA: A sadistic woman-killer is on the loose, cutting up women in the worst possible ways, and one cop in particular is the target of this guy's affection. One cool little nuance in the film: The killer sounds like Donald Duck. There's not really a whole lot else to say. This is a movie that doesn't thrive on the details of plot as much as it does on Karo Syrup, which poors out of sliced orafices in abundance. But there is an issue here that's going to deter women and any woman-respecting male from wanting to sit through this movie: It is absolutely, 100%, relentlessly brutal towards women. Every murder sequence is shown on screen in elaborate detail. There is almost nothing left to the imagination. Fulci doesn't cut away just as things are getting their worst, and if he does, he always cuts back right in time for the blade to cut across a part of the woman's body that will have audience members clutching assorted body parts. This is an exploitation film, as well, using a New York City sex house as a backdrop for one of the more corrupting sequences I've ever seen committed to celluloid. Nudity is virtually in your face almost every five minutes in this film. Heck, even the good guy has a prostitute, and of course, she has to walk around naked during the cop's midnight phone call eating yogurt or something. Pubescent boys will love this film and its gore. Women will never go out with the guys who don't squirm. This isn't for everyone by any means; Fulci never made a movie that was, but in terms of disturbing violence and above-average gore-effects, in essence, everything a Lucio Fulci movie stands for, this one delivers for his fans.
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