The Driller Killer

One star for fully understanding the motives of the (anti)hero, who is none other than director Abel Ferrara himself in the lead role - if an absolutely terrible punk band set up a rehearsal room in the apartment below me and at three in the morning they started happily blasting away with their crazy cacophony, I would start killing people too - plus we now have those cheap cordless drills. In any case, Abel Ferrara made a relatively intolerable piece of trash, which slightly stinks of art-house, but exactly what it was, and what it should have been, well, in the end only he and the devil knows. (29.04.2019)

Driller Killer may be a disappointing film because it may not deliver what the viewer expects at first glance. On the other hand, I like that it's a film that's conceived a little differently, even if some scenes can seem almost redundant and too long. Yet you can also sense from them the desire to create that psychological degradation of a person until the moment when he or she actually collapses. In this, it was successful. (23.11.2017)