Buy from eBay Driller Killer: Collector's Edition Release Date: 15 June, 1979 Director: Abel Ferrara Studio: Image Entertainment Rated: Unrated Buy this film on eBay Amazon.com Customer Reviews   Rated 5 out of 5! Lighten up! It’’s tongue-in-cheek! 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.   Rated 1 out of 5 a controversial film This film was infamous for years and years for being one of the most controversial ever. But why? The film is filled with cold blooded killings, but only one happens in any graphic nature. The sound quality of it is very poor, you can constantly hear the crew shufferling their feet off screen and. Much of the camera work has been underlit or lit very badly so the actors disaper into the darkness or are parshally bathed in a nasty orange tungston light as well as being out of focas at times. There is a solid story in this movie, but the troubble is its hidden beneith the Bad camera work and crappy sound job. It also feels like there where big chunks missing from the final edit. Able ferra made this film over a couple of years, Directing and acting in it himself (under the name Jimmy Lane), and to his credit the actings not to bad, i mean his not Marlon Brando or any thing but he is passable. As an acivement Driller Killer has to be praised, because although i do not enjoy the film it did get able ferra into the limelight and he did got on to make some great films like King of new york and Ms. 45. But as film i would say aviod Driller Killer and watch King of new york.   Rated 1 out of 5 Don’’t force yourself to find the good in a bad film...... ...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.     Related Films: Ms. 45