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The Jackhammer Massacre

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(Reviewed by Slaughterhouserock) - Let me start off by saying that the guy who made this wonderfully idiotic piece of shit is the man responsible for Terror Toons.  Personally, I love Terror Toons, so I expected another romp through madness with Joe Castro's newest flick...man, was I ever wrong.

Now if you're into films about drugs and the effects of said drugs, then you might actually enjoy this film.  I can't stand them though, so I found the whole plot extremely boring and pointless.  If you wanna see a guy having drug-induced paranoia, crying about how he needs another fix, and getting beat up by drug dealers, then there's several better films to watch.  The only difference between those films and this one is that the main character starts killing people using a portable jackhammer.

The film follows the life of Jack(very creative name there guys :roll) who has it all.  He's rich, has a nice car, and a good job.  The problem?  He likes his drugs.  He goes to buy some with his junkie buddy and this is where his problems begin.  The dealer gets him hooked on some new drug called "glass" that is so "good" that it kills his friend.  To top off his friend dying, his car was stolen while he was going to buy the drugs and he soon gets fired for not going to work because he was too busy getting fucked up.  This whole scene is actually a flashback that happens after the first kill(jackhammer to the face) and takes about half an hour.  Don't get me wrong, I don't mind flashbacks, but this is supposed to be a slasher film.  The back of the dvd box even says "Move over Leatherface...Here comes 'the Jackhammer Massacre'!"  So I'm beginning to wonder where's the killing?

Once we get caught up on why this guy's hooked on drugs(like we really give a fuck), it finally goes into him losing it.  He starts having delusions and seeing his dead friend all the time who tells him to kill people.  So, thinking that everyone is out to get him, Jack pulls out his jackhammer and proceeds to kill all who enter his wharehouse.  The only person he doesn't kill right-off is his sister who shows up to try and get him to go to a hospital.  He ties her up and locks her in some room.

Now, I was expecting all sorts of gore and plenty of goofy death scenes.  The gore wasn't all that great.  There wasn't even that much of it.  For a cheesy slasher film that claims to be better than TCM, they did a pretty shitty job with the deaths.  The only one worth noting was when Jack kills his sister's girlfriend(gratuitous lesbianism?) with a jackhammer to the ass.  Ah, that was the only humorous moment in the film.  The rest of the film is just pointless drug-induced shit from Jack and the occasional killing.  Oh, and the end is very predictable and not original in the least.

So in conclusion, stay away from this one unless you're desperate to follow the career of Joe Castro, like movies about people on drugs, or love cheese as much as I do.  The gore was almost non-existent, the acting was horrendous, the camerawork sub-par(has not improved from Terror Toons), and the plot is fucking ridiculous.  I gave it a 1 outta 5.  Not worth the 10 bucks I paid for it.

 

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