Nail Gun Massacre

Nail Gun Massacre
VHS released by Magnum Entertainment
Directed by	Bill Leslie Terry Lofton
Produced by	Terry Lofton
Screenplay by	Terry Lofton
Story by	Terry Lofton
Starring	Ron Queen Beau Leland Michelle Meyer Rocky Patterson
Music by	Whitey Thomas
Cinematography	Bill Leslie
Edited by	Lynn Leneau Calmes
Production company	Futuristic Films
Distributed by	Video Augusta S.A.
Release dates	December 1985 (1985-12) (Spain)
Running time	85 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Nail Gun Massacre is a 1985 horror film written and directed by Terry Lofton, and co-directed by Bill Leslie. It follows a young doctor and sheriff as they try to find a killer wearing a motorcycle helmet who is killing locals with a nail gun.

Plot

At a small construction site in East Texas, six men gang rape a woman (later identified as Linda Jenkins).

Nearly five months later, a person in camouflage clothing and black motorcycle helmet kills one of the rapists with a nail gun. Seeing his body, his wife flees outside into the woods. The killer then quietly leaves. After another month passes, Mark, another rapist, cuts some wood with his friend Brad. The killer now drives a gold-painted hearse. As Brad urinates, the killer shoots him in the crotch and stomach. As Mark revs up the chainsaw, the killer sneaks up behind him shoots him in the back of the neck. Mark falls and the chainsaw severs his hand.

When Doc, the town doctor and coroner, arrives at the scene of the crime, the sheriff shows him the bodies of Mark and Brad. The doctor mentions that now three bodies have been found on Old Lady Bailey's property. The sheriff asks the wife of the first murder victim if her husband was a carpenter before he died, and he leaves to call the "meat wagon".

The killer picks up a hitchhiker, then shoots him in the stomach, causing him to jump out of the moving vehicle. He then stops the car and kills the hitchhiker. Meanwhile, the sheriff and Doc are called to the town's hardware store were a young woman was found nailed behind the store. Minutes later, they are called to the road outside of town where the hitchhiker was nailed to the concrete in the middle of the road.

A young woman named Maxine and her friends, John and Tom, are eat at a local diner. Maxine reveals Old Bailey let them stay in a house for free, as someone was murdered there. The next day, the trio buy lumber from the local lumber yard to fix up the house. After they leave, two men, Hal and Ben arrive with their girlfriends Ann and Trish. They ask the owner, Bubba, for a job. He tells them of Maxine's place and the group leaves. After they leave, Linda shows up and asks Bubba if the two men were construction workers.

At Maxine's place, the group sees no one at home, and sit on a blanket for a picnic. Hal and Ann go for a walk in the woods and have sex. They are killed and nailed to a tree by the killer. Worried, Trish urges Ben to look for them. The killer nails Ben's hands to a tree. Maxine, John and Tom returns to the house. John comforts a frightened Trish. Later, John and Tom discover the Hal, Ben, and Ann's bodies and call the Sheriff. They unload the lumber from their truck and Maxine voices her worries of the killer. They also find their nail gun missing.

The next day, two carpenters are working on a house when they playfully shoot at each other with nail guns. When they go back into the partially constructed house, the killer shoots one in the head. The other carpenter, terrified, puts his hands up. The killer, speaking with a distorted voice, tells him to think back six months ago. When the carpenter mentions the raping, the killer kills him. The killer then murders a couple making out on the hood of their car, and a family man in a suburban house.

After following various leads, the Sheriff eventually realizes six of the victims worked at a construction site. Six month ago, Linda Jenkins, now established to be Bubba's sister, was raped after delivering supplies at the site. The six rapists walked away thanks to the lack of evidence. That evening, two women walking in the nearby woods are attacked and killed.

The next morning, Doc calls Linda and asks to speak to Bubba, but she hangs up. Doc drives over to the lumber yard and confronts Linda, who tells him Bubba is out driving his hearse. Doc and Linda drive along the road and find the hearse and give chase. Soon, the sheriff joins them and the chases lead to a textile factory. The killer exits the car and runs, pursued by Sheriff and Doc. They chase the killer through the factory to the limestone mounds. The killer climbs up a crane, but slips and falls to his death. Linda walks up to the dead killer and removes his helmet, revealing him to be Bubba. The killings now over, Doc walks away with the traumatized Linda.

Cast

• Rocky Patterson as Doctor Rocky Jones
• Ron Queen as Sheriff Thomas
• Beau Leland as Bubba Jenkins
• Michelle Meyer as Linda Jenkins
• Sebrina Lawless as Mary Sue Johnson
• Monica Lawless as Bobbi Jo Johnson
• Jerry Nelson as Leroy Johnson
• Mike Coady as Mark
• Randy Hayes as Brad Watson
• John Price as John
• Charles Ladeate as Tom
• Joann Hazelbarth as Maxine
• John Rudder as Hal
• Shelly York as Ann
• Michael Bendall as Ben
• Connie Speer as Trish
• Thomas Freylac as Killer's Voice

Reception

A 1/4 was awarded by TV Guide, while Zack Parsons of Something Awful gave the film a -47/-50, and wrote, "While Nail Gun Massacre fails utterly at everything it attempts, it does succeed in one important place where it's not even making an effort: Nail Gun Massacre is a great funny-bad movie".^[1][2] Similarly, Digital Retribution's Devon Bertsch stated, "Nail Gun Massacre is one of the so-bad-it's-good champions" and "Nail Gun Massacre is a pinnacle of 80s horror cinema. Clearly the whole thing was made by people not familiar with the filmmaking process. It is an absolute must see. They don't make 'em like this anymore. In fact, they only ever made 'em like this once, and it was enough".^[3]

DVD Talk's Adam Tyner gave the film a grade of 1½ out of 5, and concluded, "Y'know, if I watch something and have a genuinely good time with it, even if it's for all the wrong reasons, I can't really consider it a bad movie. It's not quite the Troll 2 of slasher movies, but I had more fun with Nail Gun Massacre... laughing and screaming at my TV... than any other movie I've watched in a very long time".^[4] In a review for DVD Verdict, Paul Corupe heavily criticized the film, writing, "A sleazy slasher from the 'anything goes' VHS heyday of the early 1980s. Put on by Texas entrepreneur Terry Lofton. There are moments of unintentionally hilarious reprieve on display throughout the film.^[5]

References

External links

• The Nail Gun Massacre at the Internet Movie Database