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so far i've only watched driller killer.
driller killer: reeks of 70's new york art scene in every way. its an ugly film with awful music. i guess the beginning screen before the title exclaiming "this movie should be played loud" may be true....the louder you play it the less you'll hear it. it'll simply be noise and that probably suits the film.
the plot if you discount the random stuff that happens all over...is about an painter who is trying to finish his master piece and supposedly going insane doing it. hard to follow how he goes insane...like much of the movie its pretty randoms. there's some allusion to him hearing voices from his other paintings. there's also some notion about an band (awful velvet underground wannabe incompetent slop) that rents a room by them and is driving him (and us) nuts with their non-stop racket. but the most important moment is a commercial they watch on tv about a belt battery pack product called "proto-pak". reno, the artist, gets the idea from this to use a drill to kill bums. what?! he murders a few randomly about 2/3rds the way through the movie. eventually finishes his painting and his gallery dealer tells him its "technical" crap and then reno proceeds to kill everyone around him...not just bums.
the whole movie is about the real world rejecting the passionate artist...usually a telltale sign of an incompetent artist whining. sadly this film is directed by the main actor and what we then get to see is how much of a failure he is. frankly i've seen worse. theirs a lot going wrong with this film...not the least of which is its pretentious art house "too-cool-to-bother-to-make-sense" attitude and its anti-establishment "do-everything-bad-because-its-cool" which just reeks of talentless hacks pretending. but then there is a story, it does manage to move forward, it has a sort've cult charm, and there is some nice gore. unfortunately theres no likable people in the film...the problem with the pretentiousness is we don't care...and so what could be watchable falls flat.
a tiny bit of shock value for random violence, a tiny bit of cult value for its 70's flavor and once banned status, but not much of a winner here.
4/10
