It follows a young doctor and a sheriff seeking a killer in a motorcycle helmet who is murdering locals with a nail gun.

Five months later, a person in camouflage clothing and black motorcycle helmet kills one of the rapists with a nail gun.

When Doc, the town doctor and coroner, arrives at the crime scene, the sheriff shows him the bodies.

The sheriff asks the wife of the first murder victim if her husband was a carpenter, and he leaves to call the "meat wagon."

Maxine, John and Tom are eating at a diner where she reveals Old Bailey let them stay in a house for free because someone was murdered there.

Hal and Ben arrive with their girlfriends Ann and Trish, to ask the owner, Bubba, for a job.

The killer, speaking with a distorted voice, tells the other carpenter to think back six months ago.

The killer then murders a couple making out on the hood of their car, and a family man in a suburban house.

Six month ago, Linda Jenkins, now established to be Bubba's sister, was raped after delivering supplies at the site.

Prior to directing the film, writer and director Terry Lofton was a stuntman on The Dukes of Hazzard in the 1980s.

[12] The independent home media company Frightmare Video released a limited edition VHS of the film in 2012 in retro clamshell packaging.

[15] A limited edition mediabook Blu-ray and DVD set with two cover art options was issued in Germany on March 22, 2019 by CMV Laservision.

referred to the film as an amateurish horror feature" noting that acting and technical credits were poor stating that the premise "proves to be funny, realistic blood effects are the pic's raison d'etre.

"[18] DVD Talk's Adam Tyner gave the film a grade of 1½ out of 5, and concluded, "Y'know, if I watch something and have a genuinely good time with it, even if it's for all the wrong reasons, I can't really consider it a bad movie.

[19] In a review for DVD Verdict, Paul Corupe heavily criticized the film, writing, "A sleazy slasher from the 'anything goes' VHS heyday of the early 1980s.

"[20] Nail Gun Massacre developed a cult following in the years after its release,[2] and was screened at the 2006 Texas Frightmare Weekend.