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The Driller Killer

USA 1979
produced by
Rochelle Weisberg (executive) for Navaron Films
directed by Abel Ferrara
starring Abel Ferrara (as Jimmy Laine), Carolyn Marz, Baybi Day, Harry Schultz, Alan Wynroth, D.A. Metrov (as Rhodney Montreal), Dicke Bittner, Steve Brown, Laurie Y. Taylor, Trixie Sly, Maria Helhoski, James O'Hara, Richard Howorth, Louis Mascolo, Tommy Santora, Rita Gooding, Chuck Saaf, Janet Dailey, Joyce Finney, Butch Morris, John Coulakis, Lanny Taylor, Peter Yellen, Steve Cox, Stephen Singer, Tom Constantine, Anthony Picciano, Bob DeFrank
written by Nicholas St. John, music by Joe Delia

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Reno (Abel Ferrara) is the sensitive artist type, who's all into having big ideas and starting stuff, but he hardly ever gets anything done, is not all that familiar with the concept of money to pay for basic needs, but thinks the world revolves around him anyhow. He also lives with two women, Carol (Carolyn Marz) and Pamela (Baybi Day), and kind of looks the other way when they prostitute themselves for him. He also can't stop to complain about the punk rock band practicing all day and night in the apartment below, but when the singer of the band (D.A. Metrov) asks him to paint a portrait of him, Reno is quick to take the money for it.

What all this leads to, basically, is that Reno's full of anger, anger against everybody but especially against homeless people - very probably because they resemble him and his freeloading attitude a bit too much -, so on nights he feels very low, he takes his powerdrill out for a walk and drills some vagrants to death in quite a gory fashion. Doesn't seem the police ever gets on his trail though, basically because they couldn't care less about a few less bums.

Finally, Reno has finished what was supposed to be his masterpiece - but his intended buyer Briggs (Harry Schultz) considers it nothing more than worthless shit, a nicely crafted ornament with no artistic merit whatsoever. Now this is too much for Carol, who has "entertained" Briggs just to keep him interested, and now that Reno doesn't at least "avenge" her breaks something inside her. She leaves Reno pretty much on the spot to move back in with her husband (Richard Howorth) - and now Reno's fuse blows completely, and he invites Briggs over to drill him and Pamela to death, before paying Carol and her husband a visit ...

 

Apart from his earlier excursion into hardcore porn, The Driller Killer is Abel Ferrara's first feature film - and it shows, because the movie tries to be too much all at once: A genre picture, a celebration to (then very current) punk rock subculture, a serious drama about artistic expression, ... - and sometimes, these very diverse elements just jar and stand in each other's way to turn this into a congruent whole.

That said, Abel Ferrara as a director shows definite promise in this one (a promise he kept of course), and his portrayal of punk era Manhattan is certainly fascinating, as is his very blunt treatment of the violent aspects of his story at hand, the only point is, everything doesn't come together as well as in his later movies ...

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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