Boyd This little clunker actually proves that with the right cover artwork at the right time you too can have a career in film making ... Driller Killler was one of the original videos that caused Britain to loose its sanity again and created the video nasty craze ... You either know what that is or you don't, but it caused ripples worldwide and catapulted a few great films and a lot more awful films into the spotlite ... Of course the idiots that created this silly unthoughtout farce would turn in their grave if they realised that their pointless interfering caused the exact opposite effect that they wanted it to ... Spin faster and suffer you idiots :)) ... Everyone wanted to see the films after these fools started promoting them ... Driller Killer was there much more due to its eye catching cover than any content ... Amateur ( nothing wrong with that ) but unexciting and not of any interest to most people, it launched the career of Abel Ferrara, who continues to churn out mediocre trash to this day

gavin6942 An artist slowly goes insane while struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings, and care for his two female roommates, which leads him taking to the streets of New York after dark and randomly killing derelicts with a power drill.This is the first great film of director Abel Ferrara, and with him he brings long-time collaborators writer Nicholas St. John and cinematographer Ken Kelsch. Ferrara somehow makes a very low-budget film seem almost as good as a studio film. Perhaps casting himself in the lead was the best budget stretcher of all. That, and using his own apartment as the principal set.Not unlike other genre films, "Driller" followed up a pornographic film, so this works as a transition for Ferrara into the big time. Connecting both films is producer Rochelle Weisberg, who Ferrara describes as "a gangster from Detroit" who has some connection to "Debbie Does Dallas". Apparently someone figured out that it would be cheap to make a horror film, not unlike the wildly successful "Texas Chain Saw Massacre", and Weisberg was ready to finance such a film.Ferrara has also said, "Mean Streets inspired more bad acting than any film ever made." There is no doubt that Ferrara's work is inspired by Martin Scorsese (both "Mean Street" and "Taxi Driver" to name just two), but really the inspiration is New York City itself. In Ferrara's films, New York (especially the area around Mulberry Street) is its own character, the very architecture a personality as big as any other character.The film has a relatively low rating on IMDb, and I have to concur with that rating. While the camera work is great, the acting is adequate, and the killing scenes are some of the best of any horror film of the era... the problem (at least for me) is the running time. Far too much time is spent on the band, the Roosters, who really have no importance to the plot. A cut of five, ten or fifteen minutes... and this would be a fast-paced blood feast that not even H. G. Lewis could match.The Arrow Video Blu-ray is a 4K scan from the negative, making the film look as good as it can -- and much better than the public domain prints floating around. A new audio commentary with Abel Ferrara and his biographer Brad Stevens is available, allowing Ferrara to critique his work thirty-plus years after the fact and tell tales of actresses who became heroin addicts. Apparently it is the second commentary track Ferrara has done for the film, so why the older one was not used is unknown. On top of the commentary track, we have a brand-new interview with Ferrara and a 30-minute visual essay covering his career in some detail, highlighting his themes and even lesser-known works. Perhaps the best bonus of all, though, is "Mulberry St", a full-length documentary by Ferrara on the neighborhood that inspired his films.

artpf An artist slowly loses his mind as he and his two female friends scrape to pay the bills. The punk band downstairs increasingly agitates him, his art dealer is demanding that he complete his big canvas painting as promised, and he gets into fights with his girlfriends. When the dealer laughs at his canvas he snaps, and begins taking it out on the people responsible for his pain and random transients in the manner suggested by the title.This movie is simply horrible. I know it has a cult following and I know it used to play at midnight shows to packed houses.It's all meaningless, however because the movie sucks. It's aimless. It rambles. It's incoherent. And it really doesn't much of a plot at all. I love the Bad Leiutenant and think it's a great movie. This film really really honest to God sucks a big one.

Tim Kidner The version I saw (or tried to) was on The Horror Channel and for most of the time, I could not even make out what I was seeing, let alone relish in the supposed notorious gory 'video-nasty' bits. I might as well have not worn my spectacles (I'm strongly short-sighted) for the difference they would have made.Darkness came across as giant globules of pixelated olive green instead of black and it all must have been recorded with the microphones still in their boxes, as it's muffled, dull and horribly distorted.Any potential tension originally intended has long been evaporated by the sheer strain of trying to follow it, though the "story", such as it was, is trite, mostly domestic and very boring. It was only that the presumed promise that more vital drilling into live people would make watching further less of a chore that I didn't simply switch off.