The Driller Killer

The Driller Killer (1979)

The Blood Runs In Rivers... And The Drill Keeps Tearing Through Flesh And Bone.

An artist slowly goes insane while struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings, and care for his two female roommates, which leads him taking to the streets of New York after dark and randomly killing derelicts with a power drill.

Date of release
1979-06-15
TMDB
5.1 / 10 (204)
Runtime
1h 41m
Genres
Horror
Director
Abel Ferrara

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: New York City

The Driller Killer is a 1979 American black comedy slasher film directed, edited by, and starring Abel Ferrara, from a screenplay by Nicholas St. John. It was Ferrara's first mainstream feature film, following his 1976 pornographic film 9 Lives of a Wet Pussy. The plot concerns Reno Miller, a struggling artist in New York City, turning insane from stress and killing derelicts with a power drill.

Production

The Driller Killer was filmed on a small budget, with an unknown cast, and produced by Ferrara's own company, Navaron Films, between 1977 and 1978. It was shot on 16mm film and utilized Ferrara's Union Square apartment and adjacent streets as filming locations.

In the film's trailer, Reno is heard to say a line from a scene that does not appear in the finished film: "It's just a window, Dalton."

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