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''The New York Ripper'' (Italian: ''Lo squartatore di New York'') is a {{Giallo}} Film released in 1982 directed by Creator/LucioFulci. The story consists of a burnt out detective and a psychiatrist investigating a series of vicious murders by a killer who speaks in a Donald Duck-esque voice.
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!!This movie provides examples of the following:

* AmbiguouslyGay: The psychiatrist Dr. Davis. He's seen buying a gay-oriented magazine at one point.
* AntagonistTitle: ''The New York Ripper''
* AutopsySnackTime: TheCoroner Dr. Barry Jones pops a handful of breath mints as he is sewing up on of the cadavers post-autopsy.
* AxCrazy: The killer, [[spoiler: Peter Bunch.]]
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Peter Bunch]] is the killer.
* TheBigRottenApple: Even more rotten thanks to the dead bodies piling up!
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:The killer]] gets shot in the left cheek, leaving two gaping holes you can see through.
* CassandraTruth: MotorMouth Mrs. Weissberger tells the detective that the killer speaks in a duck-like rasp. He dismisses it as nonsense.
* CreatorCameo: Fulci is the Chief of Police.
* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler: The killer's eight year-old daughter is dying of a degenerative and disfiguring disease. He is taking his frustrations over this out on random women, supposedly because they are a constant reminder of his own child's lost beauty and how she will never get the chance to grow up.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Mickey Scellenda]] was found and the coroner ruled the death as a suicide.
* EyeScream: After being kidnapped by the killer, [[spoiler:Kitty the prostitute]] gets her eye sliced by a razor blade.
* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:The killer is slaughtering beautiful women because he's disgusted that they get to live their lives while his daughter is slowly dying in a hospital bed.]]
* GoingCommando: Jane does not wear any panties under her skirt when she goes out cruising for rough trade.
* {{Gorn}}: It's ''Fulci''. It is very gory and there is sadistic slant to the violence which makes it even more uncomfortable.
* GroinAttack: A rare example on a female. The killer kills the sex show performer by [[spoiler: stabbing her in the vagina with a ''broken bottle!'']]
* GuttedLikeAFish: The woman riding her bicycle and Jane suffer this fate.
* HeManWomanHater: The killer. [[spoiler:If his daughter isn't allowed to grow up into a beautiful woman, he doesn't see any reason other women should get to live.]]
* ICanSeeYou: The killer makes calls to Detective Williams every once in a while. One of them asks whether the detective was finished having sex with a prostitute.
* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: There is a very uncomfortable sexual tone to the killer's attacks, even before [[spoiler:he stabs a woman in the vagina with a glass bottle]].
* {{Jerkass}}: Lt. Williams is the hero protagonist but he is an asshole for the majority of the movie. Somewhat Justified as he is severely burnt out and the kills are piling up increasing his desperation.
* JoggersFindDeath: In the opening scene, an old man is walking his dog under the Brooklyn Bridge and throwing a stick for it to fetch. He tosses the stick into the bushes and the dog goes in to retrieve it, but comes out holding a decomposing hand.
* PsychoKnifeNut: The killer [[GuttedLikeAFish eviscerates]] his victims with a variety of knives.
* RedHerring: [[spoiler: Mickey Scellenda]] for being nearby when Jane was killed and assaulting Faye after breaking into her boyfriend's apartment. A particularly well-executed last minute one would be [[spoiler: Faye herself]].
* SinisterSubway: Fay gets stalked and harassed by the sleazeball Mickey Scellenda on a a scuzzy UsefulNotes/NewYorkSubway train.
* SlashedThroat: Faye Majors ends up with one after taking several stabbings from the killer. [[spoiler: But then it turns out to be a dream.]]
* StockingFiller: Jane wears a garter belt and stockings ([[GoingCommando and no panties]]) when she goes out cruising for rough trade.
* VocalDissonance: The killer speaks like Donald Duck when he attacks people. [[spoiler:His daughter has a Donald Duck toy, hinting that this inspired him to use the voice for some reason.]]
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