Mondo Squallido – Ep.73: The New York Ripper

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.

Yes, in this episode of Mondo Squallido I take a look at Lucio Fulci’s notorious giallo The New York Ripper – a film so subversive that it was banned outright on its first foray into UK: the print of the film, due for UK censors (BBFC) inspection, was legendarily escorted back to the border by the Police, without ever being screened. And to this very day, The New York Ripper is still only available cut here in the UK…