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Summary: Don't force yourself to find the good in a bad film......
Review: ...because I did for several years and I still can not understand how something this bad could become so "acclaimed". Let me put it to you this way - If this film is a cult classic because of its "poor story, bad direction, pointless action, missing lighting, totally useless SOUND (50% of the dialogue is not understandable), bad camerawork (including focus) and every other production value I can imagine, then I suppose I am really missing the point of what a cult classic is. In my opinion "The Evil Dead" is a cult classic as much as something like "Apocolypse Now" is. "The Driller Killer" is a prime example of how the government, media and some film censors can cause nations to want to see something that simply does not exist! i.e - The most disturbing scenes in a movie ever!!Seriously, by todays standards this film could receive a 15 certificate! This film is just totally void of anything that can be even be considered a "low budget" production value. It doesn't have any value other than being a very badly made film. There is no "Taxi Driver" type material in this film as some would have you believe. It is devoid of all of that. There is even a really [low grade] punk music video in the middle of it! It is a film that I should never have added to my collection. Really it is that bad.
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Summary: Fun Movie
Review: A lot of reviewers give this movie a hard time. I put it to you that they are looking at it from the wrong direction. I hated this movie the first time I saw it but now I love it. I'm sickened by stupid movies that glamourize violence against women and looked at it from that point of view. But it's not that kind of movie at all. I think the only people that get drilled on screen are men anyway. My point is this movie demands repeated viewings, I think. This movie is flat out hilarious and is not pretentious at all, it doesn't pretend to be anything other than what it is. It's ridiculous and fabulous. A killer who uses a drill? Come on, that's great. His two girlfriends are terrible, he's terrible, his art dealer is terrible, they're all terrible. Most often quoted line from this movie: "First thing I'm gettin's a pair of snake skin boots". Or something like that. I love that buffalo painting too. It's a fun movie.
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Summary: not the best, but the best!!
Review: a summary of all ferrara-films and the film that brings the truth what ferrara try to say with his films: love and death and crazyness! a masterpiece
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Summary: so boring and dull
Review: A young artist is being driving insane by everyone around him, but after he can't sell his painting he snaps, he picks up a drill and runs around the streets killing people at random. Ok now, this was a godawful movie, one of the worst I have ever seen in my entire life. It's just as bad as The Nostril Picker, there is nothing in this movie worth seeing, there is violence but it doesn't matter the movie is just far to boring to care, I can only say please, whatever you do, DON'T rent this horrible movie, words can not describe how bad it is or how boring it is, this movie is just so bad I can't give it any star rating at all.
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Summary: DRILLER KILLER THRILLS
Review: Alright,so maybe,just maybe this isn't the greatest movie ever made but it is still a great movie. Like other directors first movies it has the raw strength of vision and commitment compares well with Scorceses-'Mean Streets'.It's also a brilliant documentation of mental disintergration comparable with Scorceses 'Taxi Driver' It's also somewhat gory and frightening in it's intensity like 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre'. If you like disturbing films,go ahead and watch Abel Ferarra's first feature and get inside his head.
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Summary: Lighten up! It's tongue-in-cheek!
Review: Another reviewer got it right when she wrote that this movie benefits from repeat viewings. This is not to say that it isn't great 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 bear this out -- how anyone could interpret his comments to be 'pretentious' is beyond me. 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 get is snakeskin boots." "Guy's some degenerate, some bum, some wino, some nobody." Et cetera. Watch the movie with an open mind, don't expect tons of gore or half-naked female victims (as an old video cover hinted at), and don't assume that all the humor is unintentional.
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Summary: Primitive psycho
Review: Basicly ferrara tries to show a very dark side of a human in todays society . Filmed in a very rough documentary style .
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Summary: One for the connoiseurs
Review: Certainly not original, and not even intending on beingoriginal I would presume, Driller Killer is a surprisingly emotionaland extremely well-executed take on urban decadence (almost on par with Tokyo Decadence, but in a different way). I would probably have avoided it if not for Mortician having used the title of the film for one of their tracks (a title which I would think was INTENDED to be inane at some level). ... most people DO have such appallingly little or no 'characterization' in real life (as distinguished from televisual life - there is a fine difference, believe it or not), and Reno is a character that you both love AND hate at uneven intervals throughout the film - a difficult feat of acceptance for people who are accustomed to Hollywood cartoon-logic and its absolute division of "good" and "evil". I repeat, there is nothing sympathetic in the lead character. You won't chant "horrah" when he kills someone. You won't even know who you should be "rooting for," the assailant or the victim. This is reality. And in reality there can be no tender emotion. There can be no pleasantries, no 'sweet and cuddlies' to pool you over in your distress. It is possible! There can be only violence and pain, and watching the movie itself SHOULD be violent and painful for the people whom this movie satirizes. This is why I laugh at those who do not take seriously films like these. Reno is a great character; the real non-hero - a confused scumbag, essentially. A real mental midget too, no one that you would like to meet in person. Reno is REALISTIC, in short. Every family should gather together by the fire place and watch this film. One for the connoiseurs.
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Summary: uh oh spaghetti-oh's
Review: driller killer has, without question, the best director's commentary of any dvd i have ever seen. although driller killer is a far cry from his second film "ms. 45" it is a classic. reno can't seem to buy a thrill. despite the fact that he lives with two bombshells he can't get his painting finished to collect for the rent. his agent's reaction to his finished painting is absolutely priceless. what's worse is that his landlord has allowed a punk band to move in upstairs, adding insult to injury. the band, tony coca cola and the roosters, play "the grand street stomp" a guitar riff that has a great driving force. this film really documents the viallge punk circuit at the end of the 1970's. conventions are borrowed from polanski's "repulsion" and cassaveetes' "shadows". the handheld mingling with the street people of the period shows how filthy NYC was at the time. Lots of fun. Driller Killer was meant to be listened to loud!
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Summary: uh oh spaghetti-oh's
Review: driller killer has, without question, the best director's commentary of any dvd i have ever seen. although driller killer is a far cry from his second film "ms. 45" it is a classic. reno can't seem to buy a thrill. despite the fact that he lives with two bombshells he can't get his painting finished to collect for the rent. his agent's reaction to his finished painting is absolutely priceless. what's worse is that his landlord has allowed a punk band to move in upstairs, adding insult to injury. the band, tony coca cola and the roosters, play "the grand street stomp" a guitar riff that has a great driving force. this film really documents the viallge punk circuit at the end of the 1970's. conventions are borrowed from polanski's "repulsion" and cassaveetes' "shadows". the handheld mingling with the street people of the period shows how filthy NYC was at the time. Lots of fun. Driller Killer was meant to be listened to loud!
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