Fool's Views (9/1 – 9/30)

"Um, it's a month early for Trick or Treat. GO AWAY."

Howdy, folks!

A quick glance at the calendar should let you know that we’re kicking off the October Horror Movie Challenge and SCARE-A-THON 2020 in a matter of hours and it’s going to be a great month, with Friday Night Frights on YouTube, special guests, and daily reviews, all in service of raising much-needed funds for Boxville, Chicago’s first (and community operated) shipping container mall. Let’s put September to bed and get rolling!

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Enjoy!

THE NEW YORK RIPPER (1982) Blu-ray Review

The New York Ripper (1982) d. Lucio Fulci (Italy) (93 min)

For the slasher fan sick of the heavy-breathing, hulking, mute brute and/or the wise-cracking chatterbox psycho, this skeevy little thriller from Italian gore maestro Fulci might be just what you’ve been seeking. Set in the Big Apple, women of “low moral character” are falling victim to a killer armed with razor blades, butcher knives, broken bottles, and… a Donald Duck voice. Burnt-out NYPD detective Fred Williams (Jack Hedley) wades through a cornucopia of screwball suspects from the decks of the Staten Island Ferry to the sex shows of Times Square, with each brutal murder a sadistic quack in his general direction.