Watch Driller Killer / The Early Short Films of Abel Ferrara Online
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First off sorry about the poetry. I have a workmate who keeps saying stuff like this, so I contemplate it’s rubbing off on me. I considered banging my head against the wall in frustration, but decided against it on the chance that a strong blow to the head could cause me to become normal (ha ha) .
DRILLER KILLER opens with the notice: THIS FILM SHOULD BE PLAYED LOUD. The film makes the feature directing debut of cult yarn Abel Ferrara, and along with MS .45 remains in my thought among his finest work. Ferrara is also the lead actor, under the pseudonym Jimmy Laine, Ferrara plays Reno Miller; a struggling artist, living in a cheap apartment with his roommate Carol (Carolyn Marz) and her lesbian lover Pamela (Baybi Day) .
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Reno is currently under a lot of pressure at work. He has been given one week to complete his next painting or he will bag himself unemployed. That may sound unpleasant enough, but to acquire matters worse for Reno if he doesn’t pay his rent on time his landlord (Alan Winroth) will evict him. Add to this a deluge of mentally ill vagrants littering the streets outside his apartment block & a Z- grade punk rock group (The Roosters, who sound like The Jesus Lizard, only crappier) rehearsing above his apartment. Despite Reno’s complaints the building superintendent won’t do anything about it. The noise doesn’t bother HIM! All these distractions don’t exactly support fuel Reno’s creativity, in fact his artwork is not progressing well at all & gets to the point where he has psychotic episodes in which his art “talks” to him.
However one night while sitting around watching TV with his roommate & her lesbian lover, an ad comes on for a $19.95 proto-pak drill.
Reno’s first victim is a awful defenceless wittle bunny wabbit which he kills by bludgeoning it with a hammer.
This leads to Ferrara’s significant homage to Roman Polanski’s “Repulsion”, which the movie is more comparable to, rather than its expected slasher or “video sinful” label of course bestowed by paranoid nitwits who never bother to stare the movies. David Lane: Are you reading this?!
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Then he gets his drill… I mean the movie’s called DRILLER KILLER, so a hammer wouldn’t work. How about a remake with Stallone as Reno? They could call it HAMMER SLAMMER, and Sly sells his bear paintings too! Though it’s a generous bet his wife pins them on the Stallone family fridge.
Actually, the murders themselves reach off as more comical as opposed to revolting (Notice the movie & you’ll understand) . PASSION OF THE CHRIST is ten times bloodier than this. Seriously.
A word of warning to first time viewers: It’s been renowned in some reviews here that others have been disappointed by the film due to its lack of gore. In fact there’s only two scenes of graphic violence in the entire movie, & the first drilling, (in which a bum gets it in the forehead) doesn’t happen until 40 minutes into the movie & even then, by contempory standards at least, the gore is minimal.. In retrospect its downright bloody daft how this was originally banned in the UK & NZ because a couple of lifeless extinct biddies (namely Mary Whitehouse & Patricia Bartlett) saw a couple of movie posters, & donned their Nazi regalia spewing forth a blatantly fabricated tirade of lies and paranoia to effect England & NZ dead, conservative & ignorant impartial like them. While I’m on the subject of censorship, I reflect this could have near very terminate to getting an R16 in NZ if it were prick (something I’m seldom in favour of) . Ferrara also unexcited the Roosters songs under the Lane moniker.
The movie is also chock stout of unintentionally hilarious dialogue aided by Ferrara’s (presumably) reefer induced performance. Add to that a righteous lesbian shower scene thrown in for no other reason than to explain some T&A.
The Australasian DVD bonuses only include trailers (but not the trailer for DRILLER KILLER), Ferrara’s filmography & an intro by Xavier Mendik, Director Of The Cult Film Archive at the University College Northhampton. Sounds like my dream job! But alas, alack, he’s a pretentious twonk. And the Vidiot hates pretense. The intro’s only about five minutes long, but Mendik is a expansive bore with his analysis of the themes of “urban decay” in the movie. I’m annoyed that the Australasian release wasn’t the same as the one available here with a Director’s commentary and Ferrara short films. That’s my only complaint about this.
In summing up, the films detractors will be fearful to know that DRILLER KILLER is not as earlier said, a video nasty; it’s not really a slasher and it doesn’t actually belong in the apprehension category either. In actuality DRILLER KILLER is, in my understanding, one of the maverick film-makers best features along with MS .45. It mixes a gritty bargain basement study and feel with some intelligent camerawork, an effectively menacing atmosphere and a number of simple but very effective setpieces, all of which adds up to a movie that you really ought to watch at least once. I’m definitely going to study it again at some point in the future.
Another reviewer got it factual when she wrote that this movie benefits from relate viewings. This is not to say that it isn’t stout the first time around: from the very beginning, when the audience is informed that the movie should be played ‘LOUD,’ to the glam-punk music, classic dialogue and characters, it should be apparent that this movie is not to be taken very seriously. At times, it verges on satire. Ferrara’s commentary seems to beget this out — how anyone could clarify his comments to be ‘pretentious’ is beyond me.
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Seriously, folks. This film, at times, is hilarious. Reading the reviews I saw that others had found some of the dialogue to be memorable, at least. “You don’t know nothin’ about painting!” “First thing I’m gonna earn is snakeskin boots.” “Guy’s some degenerate, some bum, some wino, some nobody.” Et cetera. Gaze the movie with an initiate mind, don’t request tons of gore or half-naked female victims (as an extinct video cloak hinted at), and don’t prefer that all the humor is unintentional.
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