The Driller Killer

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release date (Theaters) June 15 1979
director Abel Ferrara
writer Nicholas St. John
starring Abel Ferrara, Carolyn Marz, Baybi Day
rating NR
tagline The Blood Runs in Rivers... And the Drill Keeps Tearing Through Flesh and Bone
trailer 1 Trailer #1

Synopsis

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.

Official Review

While growing up in the 70’s and 80’s, and still not of R-rated age, I used to fantasize what the new adult horror releases were like. I’d cut the movie one-sheets out of the newspaper and paste them onto my bedroom wall – on Fridays usually, when the black and white posters were big – sometimes full page. After two or three years, Id collected a wall full of yellowed newspaper clippings with classics like Madman, Chopping Mall, etc. (it goes on forever), and one that perplexed me for years – a poster with a man getting his forehead drilled to death with a long, merciless drill bit. For years until I saw the film, it mesmerized my imagination, and my splatter loving heart would swell when Id wonder what horrible, skin churning, hole boring terrors it could possibly behold. …Read More

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Official Score: 2.5 / 5