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45th Anniversary Screening! THE BLOOD RUNS IN RIVERS… AND THE DRILL KEEPS TEARING THROUGH FLESH AND BONE.
An artist slowly goes insane while struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings, and care for his two female roommates, which leads him to take to the streets of New York after dark to randomly K*ll derelicts with a power drill.
Abel Ferrara's (KING OF NEW YORK, THE ADDICTION) first feature film, not counting his 'adult' film, is a time capsule of the pre-Giuliani punk scene in the grimiest crevices of Manhattan's Union Square neighbourhood. Despite its reputation and being one of the first films on the UK's Video Nasties list, it is not the ridiculously gory slasher film you would expect. Ferrara portrays Reno as a tortured artist just trying to finish his latest painting to survive, where fantasy and creativity devolve into a pure expression of rage that he is ultimately unwilling to ignore. Viceral, filthy, and true to its opening credits: THIS FILM SHOULD BE PLAYED LOUD. - Steven Landry
DCP Courtesy of American Genre Film Archive!
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Revue Cinema, 400 Roncesvalles Avenue,Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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