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I had so much fun watching this one!

It is about a serial killer living in New York in the 1970s. You can probably guess his modus operandi by looking at the title  :wink:

My favorite part is probably this one scene where two homeless guys are chatting and then the killer pops out of nowhere and just starts drilling them complete with music cues. You have to see it to appreciate it though  :smile:

I got the widescreen DVD from Cult Epics. It is selling for about $10 on Amazon. Amazon Prime also has it for free and I believe it is in the public domain or at least in that weird grey area like The Satanic Rites of Dracula where it still makes it to some public domain collections. But most of those prints are HORRIBLE! Before getting the Cult Epics release I tried to watch it on Amazon Prime and stopped before the first scene ended.

Anyway, on that release it comes with commentary by director Abel Ferrara. If you've ever scene some of Bruce Springsteen's more incomprehensible stage raps you've seen how this guy talks. 

I did a review of it somewhere in here...

time for me to re-visit this one. I won't lie...it kind of disappointed me when I first saw it. I mean, it gives itself a hell of a name to live up to for a start.

the one bit that stuck out for me was when he shows the painting of a bull (I think?) to some guy and gets told "you're not an artist, you're a technician"

and yes the print I saw was horrible... would like to check it in better quality

I liked it- if only for the reason it looks like NYC when I lived there in 1980.
Actually I love it. It's just so greasy!

i haven't tried to watch it recently but i did try to a few years back and i thought it was terrible so bad that i shut it off. i'm gonna at some point gonna try watching it again but who knows when ya know?

I always crave NYC pizza when I watch this movie. Drippy, greasy, cheesy. With crushed red peppers.
In one scene the Driller Killer is sitting with his girlfriend and some punk rock chick who's their roomie, and they eat pizza. He shoves it in his mouth like he never ate before!  :bouncegiggle:

I love this movie! It's very low budget and really nihilistic! My kinda movie!  :drink:

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Abel Ferrara comments on the pizza too on the commentary. He say how tasty it looks in Springsteenanese. I love NYC pizza and wouldn't mind having some during this but the pizza in the movie doesn't look too good to me  :bluesad:

It looked like they just took a circle of flat dough and dumped sauce and peppers on it. Where's the cheese  :question:

Oh well I guess it helps with the reoccurring visual of lots of red. Also, it's more appetizing than the rabbit shown  :wink:

It is gross looking pizza.  :bouncegiggle: Not nearly enough cheese!
Still makes me want NYC pizza. The best pizza in the world.

i've never been there but would like to someday maybe i will after all this crap ends

I visited NYC for the first time last year and I must agree, that was the best pizza I have ever had!

oh i'm not  disagreeing with anyone on that  subject i can't say you are right or wrong because i've never ate it before. kinda like i'd love to Philadelphia to get a Philly Cheese Steak a real one that was actually made there cause they are suppose to be the best.

Driller Killer is greasy and sleazy.  It's the kind of movie that makes you feel dirty just watching it, but it also just feels kinda dull to me.  It had this huge reputation and after watching it I was just thinking ... "Okay.  I'm not really seeing the big deal." 




Also, in my opinion, the best Driller Killer comes from Slumber Party Massacre 2.
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The movie makes no sense, but it's a lot of fun.

I miss my Slumber Party collection so much! I used to have 1-3 plus Cheerleader Massacre. The latter I only got because it was incorrectly named as a sequel on IMDB. In reality it is shot on video dreck by Jim Wynorski.

The first three I all got on Deep Discount DVD for $5.99 each. Cheerleader Massacre was more but it’s by far the worst of them. Now I don’t have them anymore and Slumber Massacre 3 is selling for about $8 million last time I checked. Amazon Prime has the first two but it’s just not the same.

Although IIRC SPM 2 is the only one with a unique charismatic killer. 1 and 3 are pretty paint by number slashers despite the cool name. The less said about Cheerleader Massacre, the better.

Cheerleader Massacre was horrible. 

I don't even think they wore cheerleader outfits. 

Really, if you want more Slumber Party Massacre, you're best bet it checking out the sister series Sorority House Massacre.  In the case of both Slumber and Sorority, #2 is the best of the series. 

Yes those are great too  :smile:

hrm, I've seen Driller Killer once back in rental days but I don't remember much about it except for its low budgedness of it all and not being overly impressed. I'd love to revisit one of these days though.

i had to correct my last post OOPS i meant to say i'm not disagreeing with you guys. (1987)'s  Slumber Party Massacre part 2 is a terrible film i used to like it but it's one of those movies that gets worse with each viewing i think. i do have it on VHS though. i really love the 1st film though the killer in that one is really good but the guy's acting who plays him is terrible, he was good up until he opens his mouth near the end of the film. and a woman wrote and directed that one he he.

i think on part 2 as well i think? but i'm not 100% sure on that one to be fair. i don't have all of them and i haven't seen Cheerleader Massacre yet. but i'm sure at some point i will. i agree though about one thing that drill from the guitar was freaking awesome and really creative too. ya know on how i think if you want to make a movie like Slumber Party Massacre you should at least try and make a good film, i'm sure they do but sometimes you wonder what they were smoking when they decided to go with the scrips they end up using and sometimes even the actors they end up using as well

I liked DRILLER KILLER for the simple reason it's not a cut and paste slasher film.

fair enough, there's a lot of movies that can for me be harder to watch the worse the acting is. the acting is  terrible &  in driller killer . one thing that really has me have a hard time to sit through it is 1. Reno is such a whiner and really he's not that good of an actor to begin with.

that hurts a film, another is i can only take so much of hearing Peter Gunn's theme so much. Final Exam a (1981) film that i watched about a month or so ago i think it was? that one is an even worse film and the reason that one was so bad wasn't so much the acting, actually the acting in that was better than in Driller Killer to be fair, it was the script the film was awful because the script was so awful, the killer had no reason to kill anyone at all, now if he was someone who escaped from the loony bin that's different. it never said if he was or even his name or why he is killing everyone right and left. yes Reno started killing because of all the crap that he was dealing with. that at least give him a decent reason ya know?

or if a film like Halloween where Michael Myers though never given a reason why he kills it's written so well that we know he's a Psycho.  in Final Exam none of that is there, Course Halloween had a guy with actual talent writing it Final exam did not

I actually watched Final Exam not that long ago too. I actually liked that the killer was just a guy. Since I’ve seen so many slashers it was kind of a nice change of pace they didn’t even bother to give him a back story. It’s not good storytelling or anything, and was probably just done out of laziness, but I kind of chuckled to myself when we first got a good view of him. I can’t recall if it’s early in the movie or toward the end, but when I realized it’s wasn’t any character we’ve been introduced to and the guy really has nothing to distinguish him, well it’s certainly a minimalist route to take lol. Totally in a, “We just don’t give a crap” kind of way. I mean at least give him a big ugly scar or something lol.

you don't see the FINAL EXAM bad guy till the last 20 minutes or so iirc...

he has no back story in the film but, in the trailer it says "He came back..." in an ominous tone of voice. wonder what that's about

that's my point why did come back? also i don't expect killing to start in a horror movie  10 minutes in if you want it done right watch (1981)'s The Burning that movie is freaking awesome and so worth watching. the first dead body in that was i think about 40 or 45 minutes into the film and it worked i think doing it that way. so it didn't bother me that they did that in final exam but... why did he come back?

The guy editing the trailer didn’t watch the movie. Mystery solved  :bouncegiggle:

I guess it's better than those trailers which attempt to show you the entire film including every murder and the twist

Oh goodness I was just diving into my Something Weird DVDs yesterday and a bunch of them do that. Like the trailer for Axe (1974) especially the one with the original title Lisa, Lisa.

can't remember which 70s/80s horror it was, but I had one that explained the entire plot including the twist ending on the back of the actual dvd case!

if you want a good laugh cause i think it's funny, years ago i borrowed the sleepaway camp from a friend who has since passed away. not from the virus thankfully,
he's been gone a few years now. anyways, it was the Box set and i looked at the booklet it had and it said what Angela is yet it didn't register with me at all

because even though i read the booklet about the films i was still shocked when it came to the end of the 1st film.

yeah, you don't wanna know anything about Angela before watching that...

I'm pretty sure I have some booklets which even say "this booklet contains spoilers, do not read before watching the movie!".... possibly Arrow releases do this?

as for the box set that came out i have no idea who released it cause it's been so many years ya  know?

I have Driller Killer on DVD . . . I pop it in and watch it about once every 2 or 3 years . . . usually on a Saturday night after 11 p.m.

prolly after a few beers lol.

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