Ferrara is obviously a required taste and this film does nothing to prove against that point.not only is he a horrible actor, but he's also one of the worst directors with an undeserved cult following. his camerawork is atrocious and wreaks of a bad home movie.the back of the DVD says that Abel was trying to make a film in the vein of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre but in the end wound up making a film more like that of Taxi Driver. now, even before i watched the film, i knew this was an incredibly gross overstatement, but now i think the DVD company that made such a horrid claim should be forced to remove that from the synopsis.oh, and the band in the movie was terrible. hell, everything about this movie was terrible. Ferrara is a failure.