The Driller Killer (1979)
Country: US
Technical: col 85m
Director: Abel Ferrara
Cast: Abel Ferrara, Carolyn Marz, Harry Schultz
Synopsis:
An artist struggling to finish a painting and pay the rent is plagued by the grungy rock musicians in the flat next door and takes his angst out on the local homeless population with a power drill.
Review:
Very cheaply made, with most of the budget spent on the gore effects, no doubt, rather than on such things as lights, this notorious film has very much the same look and feel as Liquid Sky: a reminder of what an ugly era punk was. Ferrara does not really explain the murders, but suggests that his character owes his schizophrenia to a fear of social failure: his buffalo painting with its lacerations and accusing eye seems to point to a sensibility behind the perversion to violence. Nevertheless the film was labelled one of the 'video nasties' in the early 80s, found itself banned on video, though was finally granted a cinema certificate here after some cuts in the late 90s.
Country: US
Technical: col 85m
Director: Abel Ferrara
Cast: Abel Ferrara, Carolyn Marz, Harry Schultz
Synopsis:
An artist struggling to finish a painting and pay the rent is plagued by the grungy rock musicians in the flat next door and takes his angst out on the local homeless population with a power drill.
Review:
Very cheaply made, with most of the budget spent on the gore effects, no doubt, rather than on such things as lights, this notorious film has very much the same look and feel as Liquid Sky: a reminder of what an ugly era punk was. Ferrara does not really explain the murders, but suggests that his character owes his schizophrenia to a fear of social failure: his buffalo painting with its lacerations and accusing eye seems to point to a sensibility behind the perversion to violence. Nevertheless the film was labelled one of the 'video nasties' in the early 80s, found itself banned on video, though was finally granted a cinema certificate here after some cuts in the late 90s.
Country: US
Technical: col 85m
Director: Abel Ferrara
Cast: Abel Ferrara, Carolyn Marz, Harry Schultz
Synopsis:
An artist struggling to finish a painting and pay the rent is plagued by the grungy rock musicians in the flat next door and takes his angst out on the local homeless population with a power drill.
Review:
Very cheaply made, with most of the budget spent on the gore effects, no doubt, rather than on such things as lights, this notorious film has very much the same look and feel as Liquid Sky: a reminder of what an ugly era punk was. Ferrara does not really explain the murders, but suggests that his character owes his schizophrenia to a fear of social failure: his buffalo painting with its lacerations and accusing eye seems to point to a sensibility behind the perversion to violence. Nevertheless the film was labelled one of the 'video nasties' in the early 80s, found itself banned on video, though was finally granted a cinema certificate here after some cuts in the late 90s.