{"id":6718,"date":"2015-10-29T18:17:42","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T22:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smugfilm.com\/?p=6718"},"modified":"2015-10-29T19:07:33","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T23:07:33","slug":"johns-horror-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/johns-horror-29\/","title":{"rendered":"John D&#8217;Amico&#8217;s Horror on YouTube #29 &#8211; The Driller Killer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6509\" style=\"border: 4px solid  #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/smugfilm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/drillerkiller.jpg\" alt=\"drillerkiller\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AOjKrOmpzsE\" target=\"_blank\">The Driller Killer<\/a>\u00a0(1979) | Dir. Abel Ferrara\u00a0| 96 min.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Every day in October, a recommendation from John D&#8217;Amico\u00a0of a horror\u00a0movie or TV episode available for free on YouTube. Enjoy:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sort of a strung-out, no-wave, slasher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00BPA2PDY\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00BPA2PDY&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=smufil-20&amp;linkId=5WOSDJKBVXADDCPS\" target=\"_blank\">Taxi Driver<\/a>, shot 16mm on the streets back when Union Square was still a bad neighborhood, Driller Killer is one of the bitter masterpieces of true NY independent film. This was one of those famous video nasties arbitrarily banned in the UK until the turn of the millennium, and it\u2019s probably the best of the lot. It\u2019s as blunt and mean as its title, but Abel Ferrara has an impeccable eye for grand composition in the midst of squalor, and his unusual lighting and Catholic iconography-soaked frames, combined with the unerring authenticity of the setting, add up to more than the sum of its parts. Surreal and brutal, like the best films about diving headfirst into insanity. Highly recommended. The end is a knockout.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AOjKrOmpzsE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6509\" style=\"border: 4px solid  #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/smugfilm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/drillerkiller.jpg\" alt=\"drillerkiller\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AOjKrOmpzsE\" target=\"_blank\">The Driller Killer<\/a>\u00a0(1979) | Dir. Abel Ferrara\u00a0| 96 min.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Every day in October, a recommendation from John D&#8217;Amico\u00a0of a horror\u00a0movie or TV episode available for free on YouTube. Enjoy:<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,1157,5100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allposts","category-johns-reviews","category-youtubehorror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6718"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6734,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6718\/revisions\/6734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}