I actually enjoyed this film. I thought the movie had a good idea to it Terry lofton explains why the film seemed so bad to critics cause of the script was 80 pages then dropped to 35 pages and the actors of the film were really nobody's ,but you get that with low budget horror films. The movie was good on 80's gore and had your classic goofy jokes total 80's film. So if you are a fan of slasher films this movie is perfect to watch plus the women in it are VA VA boom sexy. I do admit I wish they would re make this film hey they might everything else is being remade. Being a fan of this film I give it 10 bloody fingers up. I suggest that anyone who wants to check this film out needs to buy the special editon of this film and really watch it with a group of friends . It will leave you in stitches.

The Nail Gun Massacre is set in a small Texan town where lowly lumber yard worker Linda (Michelle Meyer) is brutally raped by a group of overweight & hairy construction worker. Jump forward several months & one of the rapist's Leroy Johnson is brutally murdered by someone using a nail gun, the local Sheriff (Ron Queen) is stumped. Then two more bodies are found bearing the grisly hallmarks of the nail gun killer, the local doctor (Rocky Patterson) becomes involved as the bodies continue to mount up. Both the Sheriff & the doc struggle to come up with any answers as the nail gun killings continue, will they able to uncover the killer & stop the nail gun massacre?Written, produced & co-directed by Terry Loftan who also gets the special effects, casting & stunts credits The Nail Gun Massacre is a notoriously bad film that even the likes of Herschell Gordon Lewis, Jim Wynorski & Roger Corman would be embarrassed to put their names to. Yes, The Nail Gun Massacre really is that bad although in it's unashamed awfulness there's a certain amount of sleazy fun to be had if approached in the right way. Obviously ripping it's title off from the classic power tool inspired horror flick The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) one has to say that the script for The Nail Gun Massacre is terrible with virtually no attempt at characterisation at all, the town Sheriif & local doctor who investigate the killings are two of the most bland, poorly written character's that have no personality whatsoever to grace any film you can name. The dialogue is so stiled, flat, static & dull that it seems no effort was put into giving any of the character's any sort of personality at all & the actor's look like they are reading from cue cards in a very monotone way. The plot is awful too, despite all these construction workers being killed in the same way with a nail gun & despite all these construction workers having been accused of rape & despite all these construction workers working for the same company the local Sheriff insist's he can't find any sort of connection until the last fifteen minutes when he finally works it out. I'm not being funny here but you don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to work it out & you certainly don't need to be Sherlock Holmes to work out who the killer is, lets just say when they are finally revealed at the end it will comes as no surprise to anyone, also how did the Sheriff know to turn up at the quarry at the end?The film is as badly made as any I have seen in a while, it's right down there with the rubbishy output from Troma. Apparently writer & director Lofton has said that he tried to make The Nail Gun Massacre as a comedy but I simply can't see anything funny or humorous about it, the tone is quite serious & there's slapstick or one-liners & my guess is Lofton is trying to cover his ass as he knows he turned in a terrible film & is saying it was meant to be anyway like that makes a difference. The film has point the camera in the right direction & hope for the best cinematography, the opening sequence features a wooded scene that is supposed to be foggy but it just looks like someone lit a bonfire just off-screen as a few puffs of smoke drift by! The sound is abysmal, there's lots of annoying ambient sounds like cars going past that drown out the dialogue & the horrible music is often played so loud that again you can't hear the dialogue. The kill scenes are poorly staged with the killer 'sneaking' up on people in broad daylight & you can't tell me that woman having sex on the bonnet of that guy's car didn't notice some freak wearing a motorcycle helmet & carrying a huge nail gun, she was looking right at them yet seemed surprised when the killer eventually spoke. The gore is OK, there's a fair amount of blood & there's a severed hand. There's quite a few sex scenes that have the production values of your average 70's porno & they seem 'inserted' which of course they were at the request of the films original distributors. The rape is short & not that graphic (one of the few scenes not to feature any nudity in fact).The budget for this must have been minuscule to say the least, shot in Texas & was in fact released in the US on DVD under the title Texas Nailgun Massacre. The killer is given a modulated voice which is often hard to understand & quickly becomes annoying. The acting is atrocious from all involved.The Nail Gun Massacre is one of those awful films which has a certain entertainment value & questionable charm about it, it was sleazy & exploitative enough to keep me happy for 90 odd minutes but both conceptually & technically this is the pits. If you are interested in power tool inspired slasher films then check out The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Toolbox Murders (1978) & The Driller Killer (1979).

If you're looking for a proper horror movie, skip this one keep on looking. If however, you're a fan of the so-called "so bad it's good" movies, keep on reading.I've seen lots of the so-called "so bad it's good" movies, including the notorious TROLL 2. I can say without reservation that THE NAIL GUN MASSACRE is at the top of the pile and far surpasses many slasher movies intended to be taken seriously. It is also cheaper than virtually every other movie made. It makes most B-movies look like high-budget Hollywood classics. The chances are that the spare change in your wallet probably amounts to more than the budget of this movie! This is very typical slasher fare with a very simple plot - a woman is raped by a group of construction workers. Soon after, a wave of killings by an unknown assailant armed with a nail gun begin. A doctor and a sheriff try to catch the said assailant.This grade Z movie truly is a classic of unintentional humour. All the way down from the killer's incredibly funny one-liners to a woman screaming non-stop for several minutes (this gag later being used in NUTBAG) to the sheriff's mysterious badge (which just happens to move from one side of his shirt to another between shots!) to random moronic characters showing up out of nowhere just to be killed to the cheesy special effects (the nails are actually real and not rubber as some other commenters have stated), this is truly a tremendous piece of work. It is almost certainly guaranteed to please any trash movie lover and leave you with the feeling that maybe TROLL 2 was quite competently made after all! The killer in this movie is seemingly deliberately made as ridiculous as possible. He wears a camouflage jumpsuit with a yellow oxygen tank on his back, a motorcycle helmet held together with duck tape, carries a nail gun attached to the oxygen tank by a piece of curly telephone wire, drives around in a gold hearse and speaks in a modified robotic-style voice similar to Darth Vader! I'm not making this up, seriously! His height and build also changes through the course of the movie because the director hired two stunt doubles, one of which happens to be female! A massive number of victims (about 15) get killed by the unknown assailant. The murders themselves are also ridiculously executed. People literally die even though they've only had nails fired into their arms or legs. I think you get the idea. Tons of random people show up just for the purpose of being killed and only a few main characters exist. Almost every scene seems to contain a completely different set of people compared to the previous.And the rape scene! How can I describe it? It has to be the lamest rape scene committed to film. This is no I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE, so don't panic and assume you'll see anything particularly upsetting or disturbing. All you get to see is a fully clothed woman crying her eyes out for a few seconds as a few burly construction workers molest her and the scene ends quickly with seemingly 20 or so construction workers there to join in the fun. Priceless comedy.Also contained within the movie is a very funny outdoor sex scene which the director famously describes as being as close to the real thing as possible. This scene, along with all the random gratuitous topless nudity shown throughout, was added to please the distributors. The sex scene is without doubt one of the funniest you'll ever see.The movie's low rating is probably due to an inaccuracy of marketing on the part of the distributors. This should have been marketed as a comedy. If so, it would have enjoyed the popularity of spoofs such as SHAUN OF THE DEAD. Instead, the distributors decided to market it as a typical 80s slasher in the same vain as such movies as THE TOOLBOX MURDERS, BODY COUNT, THE HOUSE ON SORORITY ROW, MY BLOODY VALENTINE and so on. This was an obvious attempt to cash-in on the slasher boom at the time. Unfortunately, it didn't work and the movie drifted into obscurity until the eventual DVD release in 2005. The said DVD contains a documentary in which the director talks about the movie and tries to explain away some of its shortcomings. It too is a must see for fans of this movie.All in all an absolute must-see for all fans of the "so bad it's good" movie genre.

After a bunch of construction workers rape a woman, the men start getting 'nailed' by some vengeful killer carrying a nail gun.Cheap and trashy all the way, Nail Gun Massacre has to be one of the worst excuses for a horror film ever. Our villain is laughably un-scary, as he makes corny, distorted jokes during every murder! The characters are completely wooden, the plot is non-existing, and the quality of this movie basically consists of one sex scene after another with the occasional unconvincing murder. Granted though, it does have one of the better murder-during-sex scenes of the slasher genre.Only for those who love movies that look like they were shot in someone's backyard, or in the director's case his grandmother's general store. Grandma cameos as a store clerk reading a lame movie script.BOMB out of ****