Driller Killer (1979)

Driller Killer (1979)

Genres: N/A

Directors: N/A, Abel Ferrara

Cast: Alan Wynroth, Carolyn Marz, Abel Ferrara (as Jimmy Laine), Baybi Day, Harry Schultz, N/A

The Driller Killer (also known as Driller Killer) is a 1979 American black comedy slasher film directed by Abel Ferrara and starring Ferrara (credited as Jimmy Laine), Carolyn Marz, Baybi Day, and Harry Schultz. The plot concerns Reno Miller, a struggling artist in New York City, turning insane from stress and killing derelicts with a power drill. The film was particularly controversial in the United Kingdom, where the graphic cover art of its 1982 VHS release landed it on a list of "video nasties" that were banned under the Video Recordings Act 1984. An edited version was later granted an 18 certificate and released in 1999, and a full uncut version was approved by the BBFC in 2002. On June 10, 2010, it was re-released as video on demand (VOD). The film is now in the public domain.

Abel Ferrara began filming Driller Killer in 1977 and finished the film in 1978, but it was not released until 1979. Then in 1982 the UK distributors of the film, Vipco, took out some full-page advertisements in a number of movie magazines. The advertisements showed the video's violently explicit cover, complaints began flooding into the Advertising Standards Agency, and by 1984 'Video Nasties' were banned in the UK. You can find out more about Driller Killer at A Passion For Horror .

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