The Driller Killer 1979 123movies

Watch: The Driller Killer 1979 123movies, Full Movie Online – Reno is an artist struggling to survive in NYC. He draws inspiration from scenes of daily street life and occasional random violence. Under pressure to finish his oft-delayed grand masterpiece, his psychotic alter-ego takes over and he begins killing random vagrants to boost his creativity, not quite realizing that it is happening in reality. When an art dealer grimly rejects Reno’s finished masterpiece, Reno’s mental condition quickly deteriorates..
Plot: 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.
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Ratings:

	5.1/10 Votes: 7,868
	64% | RottenTomatoes
	66/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 138 Popularity: 9.299 | TMDB

Reviews:

Gritty, Controversial but Hollow
It’s hard to imagine how this film gained its notorious status(especially in the UK). It is poorly shot(reflecting its miniscule budget) and is really no more violent than any other horror film. True, when the disgruntled artist Reno(played by first-time director Abel Ferrara) first goes on a rampage armed with a drill and ‘porto-pak’, the film does manage to touch a raw nerve, but soon it descends to laboriously-paced repetition and struggles to hold attention.

Will be remembered as the debut feature of director Ferrara, who has since never been afraid to court controversy with films like Ms. 45 and Bad Lieutenant; and probably as one of the films that sparked off the ‘Video Nasty’ hysteria in the UK in the 1980’s; but for little else.

4/10

Low budget psychotic romp and prototypical “video nasty”
A deliciously grimy and dirty debut from Abel Ferrara (‘Bad Lieutenant’), ‘Driller Killer’ follows an artist (played by Ferrara himself) whose frustrated attempts to make ends meet and find creative satisfaction against a backdrop of urban decay and the interminable punk-rock cacophony of a band in the apartment above him eventually get the better of him and lead him to emotional breakdown and maniacal, grisly homicide.

The story of a city-dweller (New York, no less) who can’t take it any more and snaps clearly owes much to ‘Taxi Driver’ but, in contrast, ‘Driller Killer’ is distinguished by an almost total lack of the psychological and technical finesse so characteristic of Scorsese’s film and makes its point through a relentless inarticulate bludgeoning of the viewer which could be said to be an (ahem) acquired taste. Having said this, the film isn’t as gory as its cult status on the list of “video nasties” compiled by the Director of Public Prosecutions in England in the early eighties would lead you to believe and in lacking both the searing transgression of films like ‘Cannibal Holocaust’ or the all-out gore of films like ‘The Beyond’ or ‘Evil Dead’ some may well be forgiven for wondering what all the fuss is about.

However, all things considered the film is an enjoyable psychotic romp (in a masochistic sort-of-way) and I have always found its limitations to be an indispensible part of its appeal as the low budget and technical bludgeoning are central to evoking a genuine sense of the stifling degeneration of New York at its nadir. What’s more, the films depiction of the psychosis such milieus engender walks a perfect line between a partly distanced comic-book presentation and a crushingly claustrophobic and authentic sense of madness made manifest.

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Public domain movie. Watch it free here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaQLbLJiA50

Watch short trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1Dn57QgvRw

Watch extended trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFobdamXZvo

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 36 min (96 min), 1 hr 41 min (101 min) (pre-release)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama, Horror, Thriller
Director Abel Ferrara
Writer Nicholas St. John
Actors Abel Ferrara, Carolyn Marz, Baybi Day
Country United States
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1, 1.85 : 1 (high definition)
Camera Arriflex 16
Laboratory Movielab, New York (NY), USA
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 16 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm (blow-up)