Realising what she got herself into, she quietly unties herself and flees the hotel room, only to be attacked by the killer who stabs her to death. Later, while being questioned by the Lt. Fred Williams, Ann's landlady Mrs. Weissburger says how she overheard Ann talking to a man with a strange duck-like voice. [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] Jack the Ripper had infamously preyed on prostitutes in London a century earlier, and New York's Ripper …
Fay wakes up in the hospital the morning after when the same man visits her in her room.

At the house, one of them gets a phone call from a duck-voiced person, while the other one overhears. Lt. Williams shortly after arrives at the crime scene where he discovers a tape recorder which belonged to Jane. After a few days, Lt Williams recieves a taunting phone call by the ripper who wants to "dedicate a murder" to Williams. The victim is identified as Ann-Lynne, a local prostitute. While assaulting his victims he taunts them in a "duck-like" voice and soon enough his crimes catch the attention of an overworked detective. That man turns out to be Peter, her boyfriend. Lieutenant Fred Williams (That night in New York's red-light district, Jane Lodge (Alexandra Delli Colli), attends a live sex show and records the simulated moans and groans of the two performers with a pocket tape recorder.

Williams then discovers that the identity of the man is Mickey Scellenda, a greek immigrant with a history of sexuall assult and drug abuse. Williams and the police step up the search for Scellenda after raiding his apartment, finding photographs of most of the Ripper victims and huge stashes of pornography and drug paraphernalia. Going upstairs to Susy's bedroom, Fay jumps out of the darkness at Peter while stabbing him with a kitchen knife. Reality and illusion blur: Fay is sitting alone in a dark movie theater watching cartoons when she attacked and killed by a handsome young man who slashes her neck with a straight razor. Working said detective is a coroner and a psychologist. She locks the door behind her, then passes out from the loss of blood. The next night, Fay, a young woman is riding home on a subway. Later Williams and Dr. Davis visit Fay, and she tells them her attacker was missing two fingers from his right hand. "Psycho Ripper" redirects here. Prior to the release of the film, Fulci discussed the production, describing it as "much less horror than my previous films, no zombies, but a human killer working in the dark. Williams and Davis both conclude that this is the killer since all Somewhere in night-time New York, the owner of the mutilated right hand picks up Jane and takes her to a sleazy hotel room for bondage sex. When asked what she thought of the film, she stated she "didn't like In the United Kingdom, the film was screened for the The film received a limited theatrical release in the United States in 1984 and was released on VHS in 1987, where it was slightly edited by Vidmark Entertainment. That night, a woman named Jane Lodge goes out to see a live sex show where a man with two missing fingers on his right hand peeks interest in her. A scruffy, dangerous-looking man (The next day, Jane shows her latest tape recording to her husband, Dr. Lodge (Laurence Welles), who has agreed to support their open-marriage. He harasses his victims by talking in a high-pitched duck-like voice.
Williams races to Kitty's apartment, but is too late as the killer has fled, leaving behind Kitty's maimed corpse to be discovered. When the man falls asleep, Jane hears a radio report about the new york ripper, where the host describes that he has two missing fingers on an arm. Davis then buys a gay porn magazine at a local newsstand (revealing his repressed homosexuality) and pays a visit to Peter and Fay at their house to ask them more questions about Fay's experience.

The S&M game she had willingly begun soon turns nasty, and he begins to beat her. Blue Underground has given this the definitive release by one-upping their own previous Blu-ray with new 4k scan and a … After getting attacked by the man, she ends up in an empty strange looking movie theatre where she is attacked by a young looking man. That evening, after Peter goes out, Fay is attacked in their house by Scellenda, who breaks in trying to kill her. In the ambulance, Davis explains to Fay her deranged boyfriend's motivation for killing. Afterwards, the ripper proceeds to brutally murder Kitty by inflicting multiple wounds on her with a shaving razor. His hatred of sexually active women stemmed from bitterness at the cruel blow fate had dealt his young daughter, who will never enjoy the freedoms of his victims. Role in the movie While most of Fulci's films have been released uncut in the United Kingdom, An old man is walking his dog in New York City when the dog retrieves a decomposed human hand. Meanwhile, the ripper sets out to look for a new victim. Limping away, Fay stumbles through a doorway into an apartment building. PLOT: A madman begins brutalizing women all around New York. The New York Ripper is grimy, rough stuff, but it is also definitely a must-watch. He is revealed to be her physicist boyfriend, Peter Bunch (Andrew Painter). While Peter goes into the kitchen for dinner, Fay has disappeared.

After leaving the scene, the phone in the now-deserted house rings again. In 1972, Lucio Fulci implored you not to torture Donald Duck. Meanwhile, Dr. Davis begins to express doubt to the killer's identity, as Scellenda is only a petty criminal, not matching the high intelligence that Davis had established in profiling the Ripper. Jane goes to a bar in a rough neighborhood where she's approached by two Hispanic bar punks (Antone Pagán) and (Josh Cruze) who proceed to fondle and sexually humiliate her. Written and directed by acclaimed horror maestro Lucio Fulci (ZOMBIE, CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD) and filmed on location in the mean streets of New York City, THE NEW YORK RIPPER is one of Fulci's most savage and controversial thrillers and … "The lead heroine role had originally been offered to British actress Zora Kerova, who played Eva in the film, spoke positively about working with Fulci and stated that it took a while for Fulci to warm up to her.