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The Driller Killer ( Uncut ) [1979] [DVD]

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Jimmy Laine (Actor), Carolyn Marz (Actor), Abel Ferrara (Director) Rated: Suitable for 18 years and over Format: DVD
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  • Actors: Jimmy Laine, Carolyn Marz, Babi Day, Bob DeFrank, Peter Yellen
  • Directors: Abel Ferrara
  • Format: Dolby, PAL
  • Language: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: 4Digital Media
  • DVD Release Date: 20 Oct. 2008
  • Run Time: 96 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B001E35TXA
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 56,227 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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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). The film 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)

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1.0 out of 5 starsDriller Killer- Drill out the tedium
By L.J.F.64 on 12 Mar. 2015
Format: DVD Verified Purchase
As his life starts crumbling around him a struggling artist starts to lose his grip on reality and with his drill goes on a killing spree.

The movie that was almost certainly responsible for the whole video nasty period, thanks to a particularly lurid VIPCO cover image, is actually a deeply depressing indie psychological horror. There are several problems, the deadening pace, for long periods nothing seems to be happening just a lot of talk, the film is only 96 mins long but even that seems a good 20 mins too long & a lot of scenes are way too padded out. Ferrara plays the lead Reno OK but because he is virtually the whole story everything is dependant on him it needed someone like Keitel, Walken to take it on and give it far more depth. Carolyn Marz who plays his girlfriend Carol is by far the best in the film all the others are below average. The characters are bland and one dimensional, no-one apart from Carol really stands out, so you don't really care what happens to them. The story is a bit of a mess, for the first 70 mins or so it's all over the place and it is very difficult to keep interest in it and tedium does set in, the last 15-20 mins do improve slightly. There are a couple of OK things though, Ferrara does a competent job in the directors chair, for a grimey low-budget picture he does shoot it well and gets a decent feeling of New York in the late 70's, also the killing spree scenes, a 5 minute period towards the hour mark is probably the best part of it.

The overall the feeling of this one is just how relentlessly depressing it is, unless you're in the mood this is a bit of a hard one to get through.
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2.0 out of 5 starsOverall I was disappointed
By A Customer on 29 Mar. 2001
Format: VHS Tape
After hearing so much uproar about this film I thought I should see it. Infact I bought it. Now I'm wishing I hadn't. Poor acting on a storyline that deserved better. I was disappointed all round with this film. I was expecting gore by the minute, but hardly any materialised. I could not get settled into it and I had to watch it in two parts. It's certainly not a film I'd recommend if you want to be scared witless.
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3.0 out of 5 starsDon't believe the hype!
By Craig Hale on 20 Dec. 2001
Format: VHS Tape
Right - let's make something clear: Abel Ferrara made this film on a budget that probably consisted of two coins; he played the main character himself (the credit went to a fictional actor called Jimmy Laine) and he filmed this movie with a bunch of mates, bad equipment and used locations that most of us would not use as a toilet, let alone film in.
That said and done, I believe the film to be a deeply faulted but respectable amature student film. The suckers that believed the hype and ran out and bought a copy, thinking that they were going to get a blood-laden, vein-bursting horror film will be deeply disappointed; what 'DrillerKiller' exposes is not brains, guts and blood, but lonliness, solitude, love, lust and hate. Of course these things are much cheaper than special effects and work on a higher level than the majority of people that fell for the film's title and the ridiculous ban the movie was given.
But, all that intellectual stuff aside, it's still fun to watch a bad actor run around NewYork putting a drill in a tramp's head.
So, all in all, don't expect nothing to good and snazzy. This ain't really a horror film. But if you want to see how one of the most daring directors of our generation got started this is a must see. For a movie buff such as myself, I found it worthwhile viewing - but if you think 'Lethal Weapon' or 'Top Gun' is the bee's knees, Man! don't buy it - you will be awfully disappointed.
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2.0 out of 5 starsYou will more than likely be dissappointed!
By A Customer on 2 Mar. 2003
Format: DVD
What can be said about this film that has'nt been said before? It's one of those (untill recently) rare 'video nasty' gems that everyone knows someone, who knows someone who owns a copy. But now we have no need to watch the grainy bootlegged versions anymore as we have it here fully restored and uncut. While all this may be good, it still don't make it a great film. Marking the talented Abel Ferras directorial debut, the 'Driller Killer' follows the story of a New York artist who is putting the finishing touches to his self-proclaimed 'Masterpiece'. While the painting is actually finished, he still feels its not. With the pressure of this and the troubles of having no money to pay the bills his girlfriend and her girlfrined are running up, it all gets too much for him. and to top it all off there is band practising upstairs at full volume in the late hours of the night. So our friend chooses to buy a power drill and take his frustration out on unsuspecting tramps and any other who he feels the need to drill!!!! When the killings do begin they seem very out of place. Come to think about it everything in this film seems out of place, it's like a horror/band documentary film with not a hell of a lot of plot. Sometimes i watch this film and like it, other times i really dislike it. It's a very original film with some good moments, overall it just lacks that certain bite which would make it great.
It first hit the UK shelves again in 1999, in a cut form. But it was NOT cut by the BBFC. The distibutor cut the now restored 54 seconds before submitting it to the BBFC, which i personally think the BBFC would have passed in 1999. More than likely a little cashing in scheme going on there.
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Unbelievably Dull Rubbish that You get the feeling the makers knew was Crap so opted for a Title that would make it stand out.Avoid

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Purchased as apresent for a horror buff, he loved this being an old style horror from back in the day. Its nice to be able to get older films on dvd.

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