Abel Ferrara – The Driller Killer (1979)
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.
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Abel Ferrara’s debut film may not owe a great deal to, the previous years’, HALLOWEEN, but it is a ‘psycho-thriller’ none the less. In fact THE DRILLER KILLER is more a post-punk variation on Polanski’s REPULSION (1965)- the rabbit carcass in Fererra’s film is an obvious homage of sorts. A, largely successful, character study and portrayal of one man’s descent into madness by way of the underground explosion that was the ‘cinema of Transgression’. The film is still infamous, along with such others like I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE as one of the ‘bogeymen’ of British video. Still not legally available in this country in any form, unlike other banned titles which have been granted certificates in the last decade, albeit in severely mutilated versions. THE DRILLER KILLER often surprises and confounds expectations on first viewing. Instead of being a relatively polished exploitation piece or a slice of gory-campness, it is in fact closer to the ‘art-house’ than the ‘grind-house’. The violence is often explicit, no more so than on the cover shot for the video, but it is not an effects driven movie. It is one of those films where the obvious low budget is actually a help rather than a hindrance. It has a grimy and believable feel which is something often missing from the genre.
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General
Container: Matroska
Runtime: 1 h 35 min
Size: 2.31 GiB
Video
Codec: x264
Resolution: 790x576
Aspect ratio: 1.372
Frame rate: 23.976 fps
Bit rate: 3 000 kb/s
BPP: 0.275
Audio
#1: English 1.0ch FLAC @ 260 kb/s (Main Audio)
#2: English 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s (Commentary with Abel Ferrara)
Language(s):English
Subtitles:English SDH
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