The Driller Killer (1979)

Directed by

Abel Ferrara

Genre

drama film, horror film, independent film, slasher film, splatter film, exploitation film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 36m

Rated

RC

Rating

5.1 of 10 from 199 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A struggling artist in New York City slowly loses his mind to stress and starts murdering homeless people with a power drill. The film follows his descent into violence and chaos.

grungyunsettlingrawbleakdarkly comicviolentsleazyfrenetic

What happens

The Driller Killer (also known as Driller Killer) is a 1979 American black comedy slasher film directed, edited by, and starring Abel Ferrara, from a screenplay by Nicholas St. John. It was Ferrara's first mainstream feature film, following his 1976 pornographic film 9 Lives of a Wet Pussy. The plot concerns Reno Miller (played by Ferrara, under the pseudonym 'Jimmy Laine'), a struggling artist in New York City, turning insane from stress and killing derelicts with a power drill. In the United Kingdom, the graphic cover art of its 1982 VHS release landed it on a list of "video nasties" that were banned under the Video Recordings Act 1984. An edited version was later granted an 18 certificate and released in 1999, and a full uncut version was approved by the BBFC in 2002. Due to a lack of proper copyright registration on its initial release, The Driller Killer is in the public domain. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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