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“FEAR CITY”
aka “RIPPER”

1984, R

Dir. Abel Ferrara

Writer. Nicholas St. John

Strippers in Manhattan are being stalked and murdered by a psycho. A hard-nosed police detective and a conflicted ex-boxer-turned-private-eye, hired by the strip club owners, set out to find him before he strikes again.

Here’s an OK, seedy Abel Ferrara thriller with a glimpse of the real pre-Giuliani NYC, and more than a glimpse of Melanie Griffith’s boobies. It’s a modern take on ‘Jack-the-Ripper’ (ever heard of it?) as a psychopathic stalker hunts Times Square strippers. Tom Berenger and Jack Scalia play the Rossi Bros., two brothers running a stripper-placement agency forced to deal with the extinction of their talent. Oh yeah – Berenger’s ex-boxer killed a guy in the ring once and has some kind of romantic history with Griffith.



Along the way, we get nice Times Square flavor, pseudo Taxi Driver psycho purification training, homicide dick Billy Dee Williams and the aforementioned boobies of Griffith & Rae Dawn Chong. Berenger must get involved again to protect his old flame, who has a nagging junk-habit from back in the day. The climax in a dark alley is a bit of a let-down (The Ripper knows Karate!) but all-in-all this crap is still recommended.

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FEAR CITY THEME SONG “NEW YORK DOLL” by David Johansen

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