Fear City

Fear City
Fear City
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Abel Ferrara
Written by	Nicholas St. John
Produced by	Bruce Cohn Curtis
Starring	Tom Berenger; Billy Dee Williams; Jack Scalia; Melanie Griffith
Cinematography	James Lemmo
Edited by	Jack W. Holmes; Anthony Redman
Music by	Dick Halligan; Joe Delia
Production; companies	Zupnik-Curtis Enterprises; Rebecca Productions; Castle Hill Productions
Distributed by	Aquarius Releasing
Release dates	July 18, 1984 (France); February 16, 1985 (U.S.);
Running time	95 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$4 million

Fear City is a 1984 American neo-noir^[2] erotic thriller film directed by Abel Ferrara^[3] and starring Tom Berenger, Billy Dee Williams, Jack Scalia, and Melanie Griffith. The screenplay was written by longtime Ferrara collaborator Nicholas St. John. It is considered a cult film.

The film follows a haunted former boxer turned mob-connected nightclub promoter (Berenger) and a fiercely driven police Detective (Williams), investigating a brutal serial killer targeting strippers in Manhattan.

^ "AFI|Catalog".
^ Silver, Alain; Ward, Elizabeth; eds. (1992). Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style (3rd ed.). Woodstock, New York: The Overlook Press. ISBN 0-87951-479-5
^ Maslin, Janet (1985-02-16). "Screen: 'Fear City' Opens". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-09-09.

[1] "AFI|Catalog".

[2] Silver, Alain; Ward, Elizabeth; eds. (1992). Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style (3rd ed.). Woodstock, New York: The Overlook Press. ISBN 0-87951-479-5

[3] Maslin, Janet (1985-02-16). "Screen: 'Fear City' Opens". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-09-09.

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