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In career that has encompassed such controversial classics as Ms. 45, Bad Lieutenant and Welcome to New York, none of Abel Ferrara's films have quite managed to match the shock, extremity and downright notorious nature of The Driller Killer.
Ferrara plays struggling artist Reno, a man pushed to the edge by the economic realities of New York living in the late seventies and the No Wave band practising in the apartment below. His grip on reality soon begins to slip and he takes to stalking the streets with his power tool in search of prey…
One of the most infamous 'video nasties', in part thanks to its drill-in-head sleeve, The Driller Killer has lost none of its power to unnerve and is presented here fully uncut.
SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS:
- Brand new restoration from original film elements
- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations
- Original Uncompressed Mono PCM audio
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Audio commentary by director and star Abel Ferrara, moderated by Brad Stevens (author of Abel Ferrara: The Moral Vision) and recorded exclusively for this release
- Brand new interview with Ferrara
- Willing and Abel: Ferraraology 101, a new visual essay guide to the films and career of Ferrara by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, author of Cultographies: Ms. 45
- Mulberry St. (2010), Ferrara's feature-length documentary portrait of the New York location that has played a key role in his life and work, available on home video in the UK for the first time ever
- Trailer
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by the Twins of Evil
- Arrow Video
- 96 mins approx.
- 18
- 1.85:1
- English
- 2
- Arrow Video
- Abel Ferrara
- Abel Ferrara
- Carolyn Marz
- Baybi Day
- Harry Schultz
- Alan Wynroth
- Maria Helhoski
- English SDH
- 1979
- Free
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Arrow Films
In career that has encompassed such controversial classics as Ms. 45, Bad Lieutenant and Welcome to New York, none of Abel Ferrara's films have quite managed to match the shock, extremity and downright notorious nature of The Driller Killer.
Ferrara plays struggling artist Reno, a man pushed to the edge by the economic realities of New York living in the late seventies and the No Wave band practising in the apartment below. His grip on reality soon begins to slip and he takes to stalking the streets with his power tool in search of prey…
One of the most infamous 'video nasties', in part thanks to its drill-in-head sleeve, The Driller Killer has lost none of its power to unnerve and is presented here fully uncut.
SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS:
- Brand new restoration from original film elements
- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations
- Original Uncompressed Mono PCM audio
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Audio commentary by director and star Abel Ferrara, moderated by Brad Stevens (author of Abel Ferrara: The Moral Vision) and recorded exclusively for this release
- Brand new interview with Ferrara
- Willing and Abel: Ferraraology 101, a new visual essay guide to the films and career of Ferrara by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, author of Cultographies: Ms. 45
- Mulberry St. (2010), Ferrara's feature-length documentary portrait of the New York location that has played a key role in his life and work, available on home video in the UK for the first time ever
- Trailer
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by the Twins of Evil
- Arrow Video
- 96 mins approx.
- 18
- 1.85:1
- English
- 2
- Arrow Video
- Abel Ferrara
- Abel Ferrara
- Carolyn Marz
- Baybi Day
- Harry Schultz
- Alan Wynroth
- Maria Helhoski
- English SDH
- 1979
- Free
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Really worth the watch!
I really didn't think I'd be so engaged by this movie, but Abel Ferrara's debut feature The Driller Killer is one heck of a film. This is dirty, grimy, sleazy filmmaking, in the best way possible, completely capturing a lo-fi, underground existence in late-70s New York, No Wave music subplot and all. I mean, Ferrara makes Taxi Driver feel like a summer day in the park. And at the same time, this is like a grittier, less eccentrically-refined version of The House That Jack Built (though also far less psychologically-mining and thought-provoking). But what really got me was that through all the blood and camp, The Driller Killer plays and feels like a strange, provocative mash-up of grindhouse and arthouse sensibilities. And if Ferrara was meaning to show that there is in fact a thinner line between the two than commercial filmmaking would lead us to believe, I think he succeeded. For a nearly-amateurish late 70s slasher-thriller, The Driller Killer genuinely comes off as being crafted by an artist. The off-putting sound design, the flashes of surreal dream logic, and the almost documentary-style cinematography really all add up to a fascinating experience of a movie, creating a collage of grotesque visuals, critical social discourse, and a daring display of violence in the name of artistic expression. Of course, The Driller Killer hardly goes beyond the surface of its titluar character's psyche, but in the end I believe the story's ambiguity around its main character lends an air of terror as we're faced with Reno's unleashed inner demons. The killings get intense like a good giallo, but the ending in particular leaves the viewer in the dark (both literally and narratively) in a move that had me gasping for Carol's safety. Right in that finale, I knew Ferrara had me.
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Not Ferraras best work, but worth a watch
The title card says "This movie should be played LOUD" and yeah. In order to fully appreciate what it's going for, it really should be. An audiovisual assault that drives you almost as insane as the main character. Be right back, getting my drill. Not enjoyable, to be really honest, but it does something with you. Worth a watch.
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