Rent Nail Gun Massacre (1985)
2.2 of 5 from 51 ratings
1h 21min
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- Synopsis:
No pennies??? No plot??? No problem!!! With innovation comes influence - and so it was that, in 1985, another group of backwoods filmmakers from the Lone Star State gave us another legendary Texas-set splatter-shocker: Nail Gun Massacre. An icon of the VHS age, sleazier and cheesier than any of its contemporaries - and featuring more power tool plasma-spillage than you can shake a chainsaw at - Nail Gun Massacre introduces a motorcycle-helmet wearing psychopath with a range of amusing one-liners. This mysterious marauder gets their kicks from tracking down tempestuous teenagers and lowbrow locals so that they can be turned into human pin cushions. The motivation behind this macabre path of plasma-provocation may be linked to a psycho-sexual crime that took place years prior - although the local police force are understandably baffled as each new dead body turns up... - Actors:
- Rocky Patterson, Ron Queen, Beau Leland, Michelle Meyer, Sebrina Lawless, Monica Lawless, Jerry L. Nelson, Mike Coady, Staci Gordon, Randy Hayes, Thom Meyers, John Price, Charles Ladeate, Joann Hazelbarth, Frances Heard, Terry Lofton, John Rudder, Shelly York, Michael Bendall, Connie Speer
- Directors:
- Bill Leslie, Terry Lofton
- Producers:
- Terry Lofton
- Voiced By:
- Thomas Freylac
- Writers:
- Terry Lofton
- Studio:
- 88 Films
- Genres:
- Classics, Horror
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- Release Date:
- 28/09/2015
- Run Time:
- 85 minutes
- Languages:
- English DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 Mono
- Subtitles:
- None
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.78:1 / 16:9
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- (0) All
- Bonus:
- Audio Commentary by The Hysteria Continues
- Audio Commentary with Texas Frightmare Weekend creator Loyd Cryer
- Alamo Drafthouse Screening
- Interview with Director Terry Lofton
- Interview with SFX and music supervisor, Whitey Thomas
- Locations of Nail Gun Massacre featurette
- Q&A, hosted by Joe Bob Briggs
- 88 Films Trailer Reel
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Reviews (1) of Nail Gun Massacre
Possibly the worst film you will ever see - worth watching for that reason. - Nail Gun Massacre review by Plastic Teaspoon
If you rent this DVD then watch the interview with the director on the special features as well as watching the movie. Essentially this film was made by a guy who had never had any interest in cinema until one day in some sort of mid-life crisis he decides to leave his job and invest his savings in making a horror movie, despite having no film making experience whatsoever.
Why a nail gun massacre? - because he liked Texas Chainsaw Massacre and thought a nail-gun version would be nice: "how hard could it be to make a movie?" he asks in the special features interview. Well, it turned out to be much harder than he thought. My favourite bit is the point during production that he realises that his film is never going to scare anyone and so he tries to make it into a cult classic instead.
Bizarrely he succeeds almost by accident in making a film so bad that it does in fact gain some cult status first in Europe and then in America. The sad part is that in his naivety he has signed away all his rights to an unscrupulous film distributor so that in the end he never sees a penny for all his efforts.
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