Driller Killer
It's Public Domain Month on The Cinema Snob! And first up is Abel Ferrara's controversial "Driller Killer." A movie that's in both the Public Domain and the Video Nasties list!
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Nice artwork for this one!
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Great start there, Brad. I bet this video makes you wish it was Italian Batman too, lol!
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damn you brad...
every time i´m hearing your intro song i´m doomed to sing along and "dance" like a gay actor...THANKS BRAD -_-
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I feel the same way, you are not alone, lol!
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Like a what? What does that mean?
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Ghostbusters 2 and American Psycho references for the win, Brad! Plus, that bit with the bum exclaiming "OOOH! A drill!" made me laugh to no end.
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I really liked this movie and I'm glad you featured it in public domain feature. It's so grimy and unpredictable,
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THERE'S NO SANTA CLAUS?!
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Are you still planning on doing a tribute to Simon MacCorkindale? You never did one.
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BREAKING NEWS FOR THE CINEMA SNOB. There is a tenth Pierre Kirby film!!! Fury In Red. In the Cinema Nocturna Paul John Stanners interview, Stanners mentions working on a film with Pierre Kirby called Fury In Red, which I assumed was an alternate title for Crackdown Mission which they both starred in, but when mentioning the Godfrey Ho films that he's tracked down starring him, Stanners mentions Crackdown Mission, so Fury In Red must be a separate film as he wasn't in any other of the Pierre Kirby filmography!!!
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Aaaah, Video Nasties, the specter of Mary Whitehouse strikes again. The whole story about the opinions being based on the cover art alone proves that we Brits can crazy with the best of them!
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AHH! Is that boobage i see @~1:35?
TskTskTsk Snob!
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Does anybody else think that Ferrara looks just like Daniel Day Lewis?
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Don't forget the explosive pilot Abel directed for "Crime Story." That was one of the best pieces of his career.
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Is the movie "Pieces" in the public domain? My copy of the movie doesn't seem to have a copyright notice anywhere on it.
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Oh goody! I can't wait to see The Devil Times Five get snobbed! I've been waiting for that one.
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Awesome review, Brad. First movie that I've watched before the Cinema Snob reviews it. I laughed all the way through.
I agree with the comments, though I'll say it, I like this movie, warts and all. The opening scene is one the best scenes in it, and some of the gore scenes are good. One thing i didn't like was the fact that Reno did not kill the band. It's definitely not a movie for everyone.
The critic character was actually well acted, and he looked like that type of art critic. When Reno kills, it's good, but the dramatic dialogue scenes are pretty bad in a good way, lol!
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Hehe. Not artsy enough of a film to please The Snob? I've owned the film a long time, but it's not often I dare to show it to people. I always get mixed opinions on this one.
Looking forward to more public domain gems!
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Was that copy of Pacman for the Atari 2600 XD
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Yes, a PIECES review would be great if its in public domain.
It's a pretty standard release but it deserves a snobbing.
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This was the funniest Snob in a while. Especially enjoyed the Pac-Man reference. Young'uns won't know it, but offering a free Atari 2600 Pac-Man cartridge as enticement is like saying a kitten will be strangled with every purchase. Add to that that Combat, which originally came with the Atari 2600, was actually a -fun- game. The 2600 Pac-Man is like the Asylum version of The Empire Strikes Back. Except that the Asylum version would have had dinosaurs, which would have made it, a priori, a better movie. That said, even dinosaurs couldn't have made 2600 Pac-Man better. An option to play a Slot Racers version of Pac-Man could have, though.
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I saw this movie, and it was boring as all hell. I don't even remember half of it, and I saw this about a year and half ago. I can remember most of a movie some time later. I didn't even remember the name, it just all started to flood back when I watched this review.
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I like the Kubrick joke, but in all honesty, he wasn't a jerk to his actors. Well, there are two cases of him being cruel. To Shelley Duvall and Scatman Crothers. But he was more a jerk than actually yelling at them. Look at A Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, 2001, Eyes Wide Shut, or Full Metal Jacket, and read the stories from the actors themselves, and you'll see that they mostly liked him. Even Jack Nicholson said that his biggest regret was not making another film with Kubrick.
I get the joke, but it's more a rumor than a joke based on fact.
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Kubrick was a notorious perfectionist, and was willing to use underhanded tactics to get the performance he wanted. There are more cases than those two, such as tricking George C. Scott into giving him the performance he wanted in Dr. Strangelove as well as not telling another actor that he was actually in a comedy movie. (There are more than those two as well, but there's no need to make this comment any longer than it has to be lol)
I love Kubrick films but there is more fact to the rumor. Then again, he made good movies regardless, so who really cares right?
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"Public Domain Month"? Alright, I hope "House of 1000 Corpses" comes up. I'm a huge Rob Zombie fan.
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There's no Santa Claus???
CHRISTMAS DAY!!!!!
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Very funny review as always. Personally i really like the film, I find it's grimy air suits it very well and the characters spiral into insanity fascinating. Abel Ferrara certainly put every drop of passion and emotion he could squeeze into making it.
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Ah yes driller killer, banned in the UK. I swear that was the easiest banned film to see ever, there were more bootlegs of this than official copies most films.
My favorite of Abel Ferrara films are Ms 45 aka Angel of Death, bodysnatchers and King of New York.
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I've been waiting for you to do this one! It truly is a horrendous piece of work, but at least Reno's madness makes it entertaining. Though I must admit, some of the dialogue had me reaching for a drill or some other violent instrument to ram into my ear canal. Well done!
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Hehehe totally saw the Kubrick and Taxi Driver jokes coming from a mile away. Still funny though
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Brad, you gotta keep this new title card artist, he really got you spot on.
Don't mean to be rude but your previous title cards are really not good.
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Did anyone else expect Reno to start singing "My angel is a centerfold!"
Or maybe I'm just weird like that....
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to me it's a quite brilliant exploitation classic in the vein of "Maniac" or "I Spit On Your Grave". Don't understand why you hate it that much. I had a great time watching it, especially because of the nice camera work, Ferrara's performance and of course all the excellent gore.
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This is actually a movie that I like a lot, and I like it for a lot of the reasons the Snob doesn't. I did this movie because for "Public Domain Month" it's one of the more notorious movies in the public domain. I might not have made a Snob video out of this otherwise; but at the same time, this is the kind of movie that the Snob or someone like him wouldn't get into. You can see my actual opinion of the movie in my Public Domain Theater section of the site.
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Would a snob really complain about a downbeat ending where the killer gets away? I remember glancing through a Michigan Cinemaguide in the early '80s featuring an essay by someone complaining about all the happy endings in movies post-Star Wars. Plus the early '70s are often considered one of cinema's golden ages.
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So this guy had to take an extension cord everywhere he went to kill someone?
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Ooo PUBLIC DOMAIN MONTH!!! at THE CINEMA SNOB.
I wonder if we'll see a viewing of FIRECRACKER the most naked kung fu fights ever shown on the silver screen. CROTCH SHOT never looked more painful.
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Uh, Brad... You missed a nipple at 1:38. Just thought I should point that out... and I like fucking with people
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The reason it says play loud is because the sound was edited so that dialog was very quiet compared to regular television, while the drill's sound was actually increased in volume, meaning that you ended up increasing the volume, leading to a much louder drill sound effect.
In other words, it was an audio gimmick.
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Can't judge a film by its box cover!
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