Director Abel Ferrara plays Reno,a struggling NYC artist with 2 female room mates living in a sleazy building on a sleazy street surrounded by sleazy people.
In the apartment above his live the members of a punk rock band who play at all hours of the night.
He's broke all the time-he has no money to pay bills.
He's stressed.
Nothing really major makes him crack-just the slow,creeping,fungus that is life in NYC. So-once in a while-he gets a battery operated power drill and kills homeless people.
As far as a horror film goes-there's not a lot of blood and guts. No real tension or suspense at all. It just reels off like real life. Which is why this is such a good movie. It seems like it could happen to you! Oh-and being a native New Yorker once,I can understand. It made me nostalgic for the old sleaze and smells of that s**thole. I lived there in 1980- The bums,the porn shops,the punk rock scene-felt like old times!