Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

This grim, grimy and utterly depressing film was banned in Britain for 20 years before being released on video with 54 seconds of cuts. Supposedly its lurid cover compelled the authorities to outlaw "video nasties", and since then avid horror fans have been buying any copy available to watch the graphic violence on screen. Indeed, there is some violence in the film, but for the most part it's a very slow moving, character study of despair and growing insanity. These features bring it very close to the film TAXI DRIVER, as both movies have a central character who becomes disturbed by the conditions and people in his life and who finally snaps, going on a murder spree. But while TAXI DRIVER saved the violence for the closing moments, THE DRILLER KILLER drops it in intermittently.The violence, when it comes, is well done, considering the low budget. The murders are all staged with relish, we even get to see heads and stomachs being bored into by the drill bits while blood sprays everywhere. While these scenes themselves seem to be at home with the "video nasties", the rest of the film sits disjointedly with them. It feels like director Abel Ferrera decided to add the gore in to make the sleazy aspect of the film much greater, which he succeeded in doing, but potential fans may come away feeling a bit cheated.The film's low-budget graininess adds to the squalor of the surroundings; a dingy, dirty flat is where much of the film takes place. It's a totally horrible life which our main character leads, full of uncertainty, boredom and a lack of hope. The central role is taken by director Ferrera under an alias, and he succeeds admirably in portrayal a man who goes through a breakdown, and can only find a release in cold-blooded murder. Ferrera's image is unnerving, yet he remains a sympathetic and understandable character, even when he commits the foul crimes. The other acting totally fits the feel of the film, it has to be said that not much acting was really needed. These people are real, that's all there is to it. There are no theatrics or double-faced characters, just lifelike portrayals of life's losers. THE DRILLER KILLER is an oddly touching film which succeeds both as a "video nasty" and also as an accurate portrayal of madness.

Artist and house-mates struggle to make ends meet, band move in downstairs, tensions running high, nonsense. Video nasty from the late Seventies which really hasn't stood the test of time with most of the cast becoming annoying very quickly and it just sort of goes round in circles. Some of the film seems to be mostly a promotional vehicle for the band with a man losing his mind tacked on to the side and even when it does reach its crescendo it's disappointing. You could say it influenced later works like American Psycho but all in all it's quite a hard and unrewarding watch.

You know I came across this movie, I'd be longing to see, I joined up with a video shop, way out of my area, cause I couldn't get this title anywhere else. Knowing it was an Abel Ferrara film, I was expecting this to be much more gorier, (his gore always shocks) watching some nut go around killing people with a drill. Well.... I was almost, stupefied. I couldn't believe what I was watching. It was the drill that let me down, kind of not keeping up his part of the bargain. Abel plays the nut, and does it well I might add. He's a kind of Lou Reed looking character, a struggling and loud artist, sharing a loft with too girls. As pressure from all sides takes it's toll, he snaps, going out there onto the streets, in the dead of night with his mack drill, and killing derelicts. The pizza chomping scene, I remember well in this disappointing unshocker. On the most part, the film actually bores. I'd probably see it again, one day, out of curiosity, just to confirm my analyzation, but I'm steadfast with this one, as I'm rarely wrong.

"Unfairly maligned" "A hit" A gem" Who writes this stuff? This film was a real waste unless you are a punk rock fan.It is notable because it was the film that ignited the whole "video nastie" brouhaha in Britain. It was initially banned in Britain and Germany and then released with cuts in 1999 and re-released uncut in 2002. It is now in the public domain so you can see it for free. Don't bother.The actual horror portion doesn't some until 40 minutes into the film. 40 minutes of punk rock to see someone use a drill to kill some homeless guy. He only picks on homeless guys. Why in the world didn't he go after that punk rock band that was keeping him up all night? The only thing worthwhile in the entire film was Carol (Carolyn Marz) and Pamela (Baybi Day) having fun in the shower.Too bad I have two more Abel Ferrara movies in my queue.