Driller Killer

From The Grindhouse Cinema Database

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Main Details

  • Released on June 15, 1979
  • Color
  • Running Time: 96 min | UK:94 min (cut version) | UK:96 min (uncut version)
  • Production Co: Navaron Productions
  • Distribution Co: Rochelle Films (1979) (USA) (theatrical)
  • Directed by Abel Ferrara
  • Written by Nicholas St. John
  • Starring Abel Ferrara, Carolyn Marz, Baybi Day
  • Produced by Rochelle Weisberg
  • Original Music by Joe Delia
  • Cinematography by Ken Kelsch, James Lemmo (as Jimmy Spears)
  • Film Editing by Bonnie Constant, Michael Constant, Abel Ferrara (as Jimmy Laine), Orlando Gallini

Plot Summary

  • 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.

Also Known As

  • El Asesino del taladro (Spain)
  • O Shizofrenis dolofonos me to trypani (Greece)
  • Sti folia tou shizofreni (Greece) (reissue title)

Taglines

  • It will shatter you!
  • The Blood Runs In Rivers... And The Drill Keeps Tearing Through Flesh And Bone
  • There are those who kill violently!
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