Fear City - Manhattan 2 a.m.

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Movie
German title Fear City - Manhattan 2 a.m.
Original title Fear City
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1984
length 92 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Abel Ferrara
script Nicholas St. John
production Bruce Cohn Curtis ,
Tom Curtis ,
Stanley R. Zupnik
music Dick Halligan
camera James Lemmo
cut Jack W. Holmes ,
Anthony Redman
occupation

Fear City - Manhattan 2am is an American thriller from director Abel Ferrara from the year 1984 .

action

Matt Rossi, a former boxer, runs an agency that places strippers. A psychopath ambushes and kills strippers who come home from work at night. Police officer Al Wheeler is investigating the case.

Matt's ex-girlfriend, Loretta, is a drug addict. His current girlfriend Leila is brutally attacked in the subway.

A Mafioso Matt works for puts pressure on solving the psychopath's problem as quickly as possible. Matt is looking for the killer.

Reviews

Prisma-Online wrote that the film was “atmospherically dense” and that it was staged according to “tried and tested patterns”. It contains "rude violence and action sequences". The actors' performances are good. The overall rating of the editors was a masterpiece of the genre, which however is not intended for "sensitive minds".

Janet Maslin wrote in The New York Times on February 16, 1985 that director Abel Ferrara had a “very individual style” that “mostly transcended the boundaries of the genre”. The film is better than most films that deal with violence, sexism and racism. It contains original elements and stands out visually.

Individual evidence

  1. Prism Online

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