El asesino del taladro

Título original: The Driller Killer

1979
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1h 36min

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5.2/10

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Abel Ferrara in El asesino del taladro (1979)

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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Un artista enloquece mientras lucha por pagar sus facturas, trabajar en sus cuadros y cuidar de sus dos compañeras, lo que le lleva a tomar las calles de Nueva York al anochecer y matar al a... Leer todoUn artista enloquece mientras lucha por pagar sus facturas, trabajar en sus cuadros y cuidar de sus dos compañeras, lo que le lleva a tomar las calles de Nueva York al anochecer y matar al azar a indigentes con un taladro eléctrico.Un artista enloquece mientras lucha por pagar sus facturas, trabajar en sus cuadros y cuidar de sus dos compañeras, lo que le lleva a tomar las calles de Nueva York al anochecer y matar al azar a indigentes con un taladro eléctrico.

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Trivia
Banned in the UK until 1999.

Errores
When the Driller Killer drills into a homeless man's head, he does not drill far enough to cause death, as evidenced by the depth of blood on the drill-bit.

Citas
Reno Miller: Oh, so it's finished? Thank you. It's finished... Since when did you become such an expert on painting? I mean, you're telling me it's finished? What do you know about painting, anyway? Really, what do you know about paint? I'll tell you what you know about paint, man: you don't know nothing about paint, man. You know what you know about? You know about how to bitch and how to eat and how to bitch and how to shit and how to bitch! But you don't know nothing about paint, so don't tell me when it's going to be done. I'll tell you when it's going to be done.

Créditos curiosos
Movie opens with message "THIS FILM SHOULD BE PLAYED LOUD."

Versiones alternativas
The film has had a rough time in the UK. Before 1984, when videos were not subject to censorship in Britain, it was released with the killings intact, although a minute of non-violent footage was missing from this version. It then got a reputation as one of the most notorious of the "video nasties", a media-fueled hysteria which led to the UK adopting some of the most stringent video censorship in the Western world. This reputation arose largely because of the video cover, which showed the infamous drill-in-the-forehead scene. After 1984, it became illegal to release a video without a BBFC video certificate, and the films' reputation was such that no-one even bothered trying until 1999, when a version omitting 54 secs from the head-drilling scene and 2 earlier murders was approved for an 18 certificate. The full uncut version was finally passed by the BBFC in November 2002.

Conexiones
Edited into Gli ultimi giorni dell'umanità (2022)

Bandas sonoras
Invention in Bb; Arioso
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach (as J. S. Bach)
Performed by Joe Delia (as Joseph Delia)

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6/10

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