How bad is it? Really stupid and cheap.
Should you see it? Sure (I'm guessing you have, if you're reading this blog).
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Thursday, March 23, 2017
The Nail Gun Massacre (1985)
aka Texas Nailgun Massacre, aka Carnage
How bad is it? Really stupid and cheap.
Should you see it? Sure (I'm guessing you have, if you're reading this blog).
In the world of cheap 1980's psycho killer films, this one's well-known and a bit of a cult favorite. There's a rape scene at the start (very PG-rated) and one assumes that it's going to be a rape revenge film, but then other people get killed too - it's never explained - and the killer, who is obviously a woman (and is played by one throughout the film) is revealed to be... a man, in fact the one obvious possible killer. [Sorry if that's a spoiler.] The killer makes jokes, usually three or four puns, at every kill and they're so terrible and so badly delivered that they're quite funny. No one seems to see the killer when he's in plain sight, as if his/her camouflage completely works no matter what the background. People are repeatedly killed with non-lethal shots, usually to the hands. There's some nudity, including guys you wish you hadn't seen and some very 1980's-looking women. There's a doctor with a "Canadian tuxedo" that you know is a doctor because he says so. The sheriff, whose badge moves between shots, comes to the obvious conclusion late and instantly solves the case; watch for the killer's death scene, where his/her foot bounces back into the shot. There's some fun errors: the radio plays the same song twice in a row, a victim attempts to steady an object and keep it from falling after getting shot, etc.
How bad is it? Really stupid and cheap.
Should you see it? Sure (I'm guessing you have, if you're reading this blog).
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Back in the early 90s, the Hastings in our small town had movie rentals for 49 cents. After my brother and I watched all the good movies the store had to offer, we started watching the bad ones.
ReplyDeleteWhen we rented this one, one of us noted that it was so bad that it was probably written by the bumbling truck driver who had just appeared onscreen for one scene.
Sure enough, we check the credits and the guy who played that trick driver was the same guy who wrote this mess.
Not as fun to watch as Microwave Massacre, but still worth forty-nine cents.