The New York Ripper
(★★½)
While it’s pretty spot on with its gritty depiction of the underbelly of early 80’s new York, with portrayals of sex clubs, prostitutes, etc. It’s basically the story of police trying to catch someone who is going around slashing women. And I ended up with the same feeling I had a few months ago when I finally got around to seeing Maniac: I don’t know if I am up for watching movies anymore where the main point is meanspirited slashing and killing women, just because they are women.
Aside from that, not a bad movie, just not my cup of tea. I guess it was a giallo, which is a genre I don’t normally like. In that case, it was certainly more engaging than most of those. And was also one of the more engaging Fulci movies I’ve seen. But I mainly watched it because the idea of “donald duck” voiced phone calls reminded me of the Weepy Voiced killer so I was curious how they’d play that.
Ash
(★★)
The story of a crew who have landed on a distant planet and, well, something went wrong. Not clear at all at first, as everyone seems to be violently dead, except for our main character who doesn’t remember anything (except for in annoying flashbacks). It starts off with a very unclear story, some unconvincing attempts at jump scares, unconvincing scenes of grooviness, and far too many scenes that sound and look like bad Industrial music videos.
Frequently reminiscent of The Thing, with some Alien(s) moment. It’s just not particularly engaging. But, for what it’s worth, I found the second half (once they do the weird maneuver with the rock that starts all the problems and the movie starts being more clear what is actually going on (and we get some pretty interesting gore/creature effects)) to be more engaging than the first half.
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