Subway Riders
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1h 53m
Directed by Amos Poe | 113 mins | 1981
A Pied Piper is terrorizing the city, luring victims with the sound of his saxophone blowing before blowing them away. A mood-drenched memento from Fun City NYC—invested with pungent ambience by future "Sugarbaby" DP Johanna Heer—"Subway Riders" stars Poe himself as the horn-tooting psycho, Ant, while Cookie Mueller, as his no-nonsense neighbor, gives Susan Tyrrell, playing Ant’s junkie wife, a run for her money as the most shrill character in the cast of castaways.
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