According to Ferrara, The Driller Killer is "a documentary about a dear friend of mine, Douglas Metro (later Douglas Metrov). I played the role of my friend. He was a painter who quit painting just before the great new wave of Schnabel and Basquiat. He went into screenwriting, and sold his first screenplay to Mel Brooks (Solarbabies, directed by Alan Johnson in 1986). And that was the last one he ever sold... (To read the rest of this post, visit http://www.filmannex.com/posts/blog_show_post/the_driller_killer_excerpt_from_abel_ferrara_the_moral_vision_by_brad_stevens/13554)