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WATCH – The Driller Killer
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.
The Driller Killer (1979)
In career that has encompassed such controversial classics as Ms. 45, Bad Lieutenant and Welcome to New York, none of Abel Ferrara’s films have quite …
The Roxy Cinema TriBeCa Presents: Ms .45
by Jake Rubenstein It should come as no surprise that one of our all-time favorite cinematic works amongst the folks here at Fandor is none …
The Driller Killer
By Don Stradley It’s New York in the late 1970s, a time of punk rock and garbage strikes, of Ed Koch and Son of …
FANDOR FOCUS: Abel Ferrara
By Jake Rubenstein Within the Grindhouse and exploitation subgenres, one name that has always been synonymous with Gritty New York filmmaking of the 1970s into …
Ms. 45
A forgotten gem The characters in Abel Ferrara’s early movies kill with the frequency of teens that have just discovered a new high. They don’t …