The screening of Lucio Fulci’s The New York Ripper in 2006 was one of the liveliest showings at the former Film Museum, today known as CINEMATEK. The masterful and somewhat vulgar staging, along with the extreme violence of this late giallo—about a mysterious killer and his duck voice (he imitates Donald Duck)—left a strong impression on the audience. The original idea was to organize a Duck Night and pair the film with the equally bizarre Howard the Duck, a George Lucas production directed by Willard Huyck (Messiah of Evil). At the time, however, it was unthinkable to show such a ‘flop of a magnitude’ at the Film Museum. Dirk Van Extergem changed that by programming the film at the then-renamed CINEMATEK. And behold, for this first anniversary screening, the originally planned Duck Night!