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.
The New York Ripper is a 1982 Italian giallo film directed by Lucio Fulci, who co-wrote the screenplay with Gianfranco Clerici, Vincenzo Mannino, and Dardano Sacchetti. The film is about a police lieutenant who is tracking a sadistic serial killer who slashes women with a switchblade and straight-razors across New York City.