The Driller Killer (DVD 2003)

Story: Director Abel Ferrara's (BAD LIEUTENANT) first major feature has an infamous reputation but is actually more of an art film than a straightforward bloodletter. Tortured and penniless artist Reno (Ferrara) and his girlfriends Carol (Carolyn Marz) and Pamela (Baybi Day) hang out at their New York loft, enduring such problems as the phone bill, the rent, and a rock band that's always practicing downstairs. When it all becomes too much, Reno grabs his drill and runs through the city on all-night rampages. Eventually, Carol moves out, Reno's paintings don't sell, and things just get worse from there. Shot on gritty 16mm, THE DRILLER KILLER has a distinctly 1970s New York underground feel--a low-rent artistic quality that makes it seem like a cross between TAXI DRIVER and ANDY WARHOL'S TRASH (with drilling). Low-budget and somewhat amateurish, this film nevertheless benefits from some moody lighting and Ferrara's brave insight into the psyche. Reno's mental disintegration manages to be chillingly believable and a potent statement on the place of the artist in modern society. A surprise hit on the drive-in circuit, this was rereleased in 1981 to capitalize on the teenage slasher movie boom (and the success of Ferrara's second film, MS. 45).

Comments: Pure Artwork! Cult-film, but BORING beginning though...

Movie hits off with big captions ''THIS FILM SHOULD BE PLAYED LOUD'', later on, you get the feeling why that is.

This is a PURE 100 % CULT-film, Rock/hippie setting of the 1970's, underground normal citizen lifestyle.

Film reminds me alot of a dear friend of me who is now in rehab due to drug-abuse.

Simple story: life about a painter who has to deal with paintings, living conditions etc.
They push him to the limit and when his landowner hands him over a rabbit and he starts to cut it up, soon afterwards he starts murdering people.
With a VERY unique murderweapon: a hand-held drilling machine.

Some nudity in it, ALOT off music in it, this film is more for people who like hard rock and are in the music scene.

You have to have a interest in the 1970's if your watching this movie, else you won't like it mutch.

Good Cult-film.

The beginning takes a bit long and is a bit boring, only funny scene is when a neighbor asks him to drill a hole in a door and she can't decide where.

After he murders his first victim, then it's good.

Real life-like, not overrated, could be filmed right outside your door.

You get a real feeling about this movie and not a feeling like ''gee, another blockbuster movie, how mutch money did they put in this 1''.