20 Most Insanely Depraved Movie Moments From The Video Nasty Era

Never has there been a film as appropriately titled as The Driller Killer. In it, Reno Miller (Abel Ferrara) is a young artist in NYC who is gradually losing his marbles. Reno hates his crime infested neighborhood and cannot pay his rent. He goes to an art gallery to beg for money but the owner is fed up with Reno’s constant borrowing and says no.

A punk band moves in to a neighboring apartment and Reno goes more berserk in the face of their constant rehearsing. His psychotic alter-ego takes over, he purchases a power drill, and begins to execute random vagrants (one particular vagrant gets a drill to the forehead quite gruesomely). To make matters worse, Reno doesn't seem to realize that this is all happening in real life. Indeed, life and reality aren't exactly clear to him by this point.  

After awhile, all of these deaths via drill begin to blend together into what feels like an extended fever dream of dissoluteness. As if the homeless didn't have enough to worry about without this nutbag running around.