10 Horror Movies That Gave Fans EXACTLY What They Wanted (And They Hated It)

While the majority of the entries on the list feature movies which delivered a certain narrative, plot point or a sequel that fans had previously demanded, The Driller Killer is included here for a slightly different reason.

Hitting cinemas in 1979, this horror offering had Abel Ferrara in the director's chair and in the lead role of the titular killer. A troubled New York City artist, Ferrara's Reno embarks on a descent into insanity as he looks for inspiration to paint his masterpiece. Of course, said descent into insanity involves murdering countless homeless people with a power drill.

Ahead of the film's release in the UK in 1982, there was uproar at the movie's garish, gory poster and the feature was handed the dreaded label of "video nasty" after complaints to the Advertising Standards Agency. The Driller Killer was soon completely banned in the country, and it was directly responsible for the Video Recordings Act 1984 that allowed such films to be blocked from release.

It wasn't until 1999 that Ferrara's picture was finally made available to British horror hounds. In all of those years The Driller Killer was out of reach to those fans, it's reputation - as in, how graphic, grotesque and nerve-shredding it was - only amplified with each passing year.

For those who had waited so long to see this most infamous of infamous films, the wait, quite frankly, wasn't worth it. Badly dated and with very little heinous acts truly showed on-screen, The Driller Killer was so not what the hype had promised.