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Oct 8, 2020 · The frustration Ferrara felt echoes many of the themes in The Driller Killer, about a struggling artist driven to insanity by skyrocketing rents, bad neighbours and gentrification. In hindsight ...
Oct 27, 2020 · Whereas Reno in “The Driller Killer” defaults to rage, his frustration boiling over into violence, there is a more significant move towards acceptance in “Siberia.” The destructive impulses remain, but Clint chooses not to give into them. Ferrara is one of the most eclectic filmmakers working today.
It’s the sound and texture. The look and feel of it. It’s Abel Ferrara’s second full-length feature, his first being a porn called The 9 Lives of a Wet Pussy. He not only directed The Driller Killer ,but starred in it as well. Ferrara was born in the Bronx, and it shows. The movie was filmed in Ferrara’s apartment in Union Square, just ...
Nov 23, 2016 · Ahead of Driller Killer’ s re-release, we spoke to Ferrara over Skype about a few of the highlights in his body of work, from the power tool-heavy movie that got the British government in a ...
The Driller Killer is a 1979 black comedy slasher film directed by Abel Ferrara and starring Ferrara (credited as Jimmy Laine), Carolyn Marz, Baybi Day, and Harry Schultz. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The plot concerns Reno Miller, a struggling artist in New York City , turning insane from stress and killing derelicts with a power drill.
Oct 7, 2009 · The Driller Killer is one of the films that made the U.K.’s ‘video nasty’ list, and is said to have been able to avoid that list if the original pre- VRA cover-art for the box had not been so graphic. It depicts a very bloody close-up of drill boring into a man’s head. I find it hard to believe that this is the only reason it made the ...
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The Driller Killer is an odd film. The term "artsy slasher" is one I'm sure rarely gets used, yet is perfectly fitting here. It follows a lot of the typical slasher beats, but it also tries to tackle many other subjects such as the music scene of New York, homelessness, art and inaffordable housing to name a few.
