1979 · horror · exploitation · video-nasty
The Driller Killer
Directed by Abel Ferrara1h 41m1979
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.
Our read: The Driller Killer (1979) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive horror · exploitation · video-nasty entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, extreme horror / exploitation, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- intense
- bleak
- cold
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