The Driller Killer

Abel Ferrara

1979

USA

85min 10sec Original UK release

Recently released in UK at 94min 17sec

Passed uncut by B.B.F.C. with 54 sec cut before submission

Released with a video cover sure to offend the faint hearted this mean spirited film about an artist going bonkers with his power-drill and wasting anyone getting in his way is now available in cut form but seemingly with added scenes removed from the banned original. I haven't seen this new version but I fear the worst with 54secs missing before submission, this usually means that most or all gore scenes are cut or missing, and for a film that doesn't have that much explicit gore 54secs can be a very long time. It's old release with all gore intact wasn't that great to start with and apart from the nasty scene which you see on the cover and a few others there's nothing to get excited about here, as in between these scenes the film drags on a bit.

I wouldn't bother with this re-release, try to track down the uncut version just released on D.V.D.

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