Fear City - Manhattan 2 a.m.
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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 |
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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 | |
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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
Web links
- Fear City - Manhattan 2am in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Fear City - Manhattan 2am at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Comparison of the cut versions R-Rated - German version by Fear City at Schnittberichte.com