i once share a second floor apartment with a guy who seem to have the most rotten luck in life represent his first rent check bounce and he have endless problem pay his half of the bill and and his car be always break down . his solitary activity ( outside of attend class and smoking ) be play his lefty guitar at high volume . and and strangely enough and he bear a slight resemblance to reno ( jimmy laine and aka writer director abel ferrara ) and the starve artist drive to madness in the driller killer . this film and one of the more notorious title on great britain video nasties list and be nihilistic and grisly and and darkly funny . but also shallow and ultimately unsatisfying . when reno try to convince a gallery owner to front $ 500 for his late painting in order to pay his bill and he be turn down while factor in the punk band that have move in to the apartment beneath his ( and never seem to stop jamming ) and and a commercial viewed on late night tv ( for a portable power pack ) . and it not long before our disheveled and vulgar hero take to the squalid new york city street and decimate the wino population with a power drill . ferrara have a good eye for location shooting and the grim ugliness of urban living and so that his depiction of reno madness isn not unconvincing . however and while driller killer have it share of frantic low budget energy ( the murder be photograph in a genuinely unsettling way ) and the script be simplistic and repetitive seldom do it veer away from it exploitation surface sheen . still and for curiosity seeker look for a bloody bad flick or where a now respect director get his start this be a fine time killer .