REPLAY: Crusaders at the Movies...The Driller Killer Uncut Version

The Crusaders get together for another movie, this time we take a look at the uncut Abel Ferrara cult classic, The Driller Killer. Join us as we drink, puff, chat and riff over this horror gem from 1979:

Panelists: Al Mega and Jeff Bracey

The Driller Killer is a 1979 horror film film directed by and starring Abel Ferrara. 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.

It was on a list of banned so-called video nasty in the United Kingdom. The film was released in 1979, it became banned in the UK in 1984 due to new censorship laws, until 1999, when a version omitting 54 secs from the head-drilling scene and 2 earlier murders was approved for an 18 certificate. The full uncut version was finally passed by the BBFC in November 2002. On 10 June 2010 it was re-released as video on demand

The Driller Killer, 1979
Director: Abel Ferrara
Writer: Nicholas St. John (screenplay) (as N.G. St. John)

Cast

Abel Ferrara (credited as Jimmy Laine) as Reno Miller
Carolyn Marz as Carol
Baybi Day as Pamela
Harry Schultz II as Dalton Briggs
Alan Wynroth as Landlord
Maria Helhoski as Nun
James O’Hara as Man in church
Richard Howorth as Carol’s husband
D.A. Metrov (credited as Rhodney Montreal) as Tony Coca-Cola
Louis Mascolo as Knife victim

*The Driller Killer is aÂ PublicÂ Domain Movie

Author Profile

Al Mega

I'm Al Mega the CEO of Comic Crusaders, CEO of the Undercover Capes Podcast Network, CEO of Geekery Magazine & Owner of Splintered Press (coming soon). I'm a fan of comics, cartoons and old school video games. Make sure to check out our podcasts/vidcasts and more!