Donald is an overweight, middle-aged construction worker with a big problem: his shrew of a wife May has started to only cook gourmet foods in a Hyacinth Bucket-style misguided effort to make themselves seem classier than they are.

To his horror, he discovers his wife has bought an unusually large Major Electric microwave oven, which makes the meals worse in half the time.

Looking for a midnight snack one night, Donald unintentionally takes a few bites of May's hand, and (again) after the initial wave of horror passes, he realizes it is the best thing he has ever eaten.

While cooking one night, Donald has a mild heart attack and goes to his doctor, who tells him of a pacemaker that was put some years earlier in when he had some excess weight, but says he is fine overall.

[4] While doing sound recording work he met friends who were in discussion with associate producers who were writing a script for a film with a budget of about $75,000 and offered Wayne Berwick to direct it.

[6] In August 2016, Arrow Video released a deluxe HD Blu-Ray (1080p) + SD DVD set featuring a brand new 2K restoration from the original camera negative.

Other bonus materials include the original mono audio in uncompressed PCM on the Blu-ray, optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing, brand new audio commentary with writer-producer Craig Muckler moderated by Mike Tristano, a brand new making-of featurette including interviews with Muckler, director Wayne Berwick and actor Loren Schein, and a reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork.

[7] AllMovie wrote, "Despite utterly failing as comedy, horror and pornography, Microwave Massacre is grotesque enough in design and attitude to be fascinating, much like a car accident.