Fear City  /  DVD-Video
Widescreen 1.85:1 Color (Anamorphic)  /  Production Year: 1984  /  Region 1

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Select Product View: General Info 1 Empire Review 1 Customer Comments Suggestions 2 Used Products Box Cover Screen Shots Email a Friend Overall Rating: 3.38 out of 5, including 2 reviews Add your comments on this Title. Synopsis "An impressive big-league dose of urban paranoia." -Variety There's a psychopath on the loose in Manhattan, stalking and mutilating beautiful strippers employed by booking agent Matt Rossi (Tom Berenger). But when the madman targets Matt's bisexual ex-girlfriend Loretta (Melanie Griffith), he must confront his own violent past to stop the sadistic killer. Welcome to Fear City, where female flesh is cheap and human life is even cheaper. Jack Scalia, Rae Dawn Chong, Billy Dee Williams, Maria Conchita Alonso, Rossano Brazzi and Jan Murray co-star in this uncomprising drama from director Abel Ferrara, filmed on location in the sleazy bars and back alleys of New York City's notorious Times Square. Cast & Crew Actors:  • Billy Dee Williams  • Melanie Griffith  • Tom Berenger  • Jack Scalia  • Marie Conchita Alonso  • Jan Murray  • Ola Ray  • Rae Dawn Chong  • Rossano Brazzi  • Joe Santos  • Michael Vincente Gazzo Writers:  • Nicholas St. John Producers:  • Bruce Cohn Curtis Directors:  • Abel Ferrara Product Information Features: Theatrical Trailer Video: Widescreen 1.85:1 Color (Anamorphic) Audio: (more info) ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Mono Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay Production Year: 1984 Release Date: 11/28/2000 Length: 95 mins Rating: R Chapters: 28 Packaging: Keep Case Number of Discs: 1 Disc: SS-SL Item Code: DV11450 UPC Code: 013131145090 Browsei Category: Movies Genre: Music, Thrillers, Cult Film / TV Bargains: Under $13 Studios: Starz / Anchor Bay Customers who bought this Title also bought Shadow Of Doubt  DVD-Video Reviews Overall Rating: 3.38 out of 5, including 2 reviews Add your comments on this Title. Empire Review Putting the fear in the city! - 3.5 out of 5  (12/4/2000) You can look at "Fear City" in two different ways: One it's a clever police procedural that shows how a town reacts to a series of brutal crimes. In this way, it's a good little gem of a film. The second way, you can look at it is as the second film from gifted director, Abel Ferrera, and in this way, it doesn't seem like such a great film because it doesn't show his usual attention to character development. The cast is too large and it comes off kind of choppy. What I'm trying to say here is   more >> Customer Review A GREAT CAST CAN ELEVATE MEDIOCRITY - 3.25 out of 5  (2/19/2001) Abel Ferrara's FEAR CITY should be considered an urban drama rather than the horror film its usually marketed as. While it seems to take quite a bit of inspiration from Fulci's NEW YORK RIPPER, it also foreshadows Spike Lee's SUMMER OF SAM in noticeable ways. Ferrara and his scriptwriter Nicholas St. John have fashioned an interesting tale of urban sodality in which the police, the mob and the strip-club community congregate their forces to snare a slasher/martial arts maniac who's been mutilati   more >>