The Jackhammer Massacre
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Daniel Benton
Steven J. Escobar
| The Jackhammer Massacre | |
|---|---|
 DVD released by Plus Entertainment | |
| Directed by | Joe Castro |
| Screenplay by | Joe Castro Daniel Benton |
| Story by | Joe Castro |
| Produced by | Joe Castro Steven J. Escobar |
| Starring | Kyle Yaskin Aaron Gaffey |
| Cinematography | Nick Saglimbeni |
| Edited by | Steven J. Escobar |
| Music by | Jason Frederick |
Production company | Slaughterhouse Cinema |
| Distributed by | Barnholtz Entertainment |
Release dates |
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Running time | 89 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Jackhammer Massacre is a 2004 horror film written and directed by Joe Castro, and co-written by Daniel Benton. It stars Kyle Yaskin and Aaron Gaffey.
After his best friend Mike dies of a drug overdose, San Fernando Valley businessman Jack Magnus spirals into depression and drug addiction, losing his job, getting a severe infection on his left arm, and becoming homeless, forcing him to live in the warehouse where he works as a security guard. One night, a pair of dealers Jack owes money to break into the warehouse, and decide that since Jack does not have any money, to rob the building, and kill Jack by injecting him with a mixture of PCP, heroin, and crystal meth. Instead of killing Jack, the cocktail of drugs causes him to have a psychotic break, and drilled by paranoid delusions and a hallucination of Mike, he kills the dealers with an electrical jackhammer that was among the tools in the warehouse machine shop.
When Jack's sister Tori and her girlfriend arrive, Jack having called them earlier to ask for money, Jack locks Tori in a storage room, and murders her girlfriend. After killing his boss, who had stopped by to tell him that the building has been sold, Jack has a series of hallucinations, and passes out on the street. In the morning, Jack wakes up, and murders the realtor and buyer his boss was going to meet with, as the cleaning crew hired by the realtor arrives. Jack kills two members of the cleaning crew, incapacitates one with an injection of drugs, and chases the final member of the group, Sam, through the warehouse, and onto the roof.
When the extension cord of the jackhammer becomes unplugged, Jack resorts to trying to strangle Sam to death, but is stopped by the escaped Tori, who tries to reason with him. When talking to Jack fails, Tori knocks him off the roof with the detached bit of the discarded jackhammer. As Jack lies bleeding in the street, the hallucinatory Mike appears, and yells at him to get up. When Sam and Tori exit the warehouse moments later, they both scream when they notice Jack is gone.
Cast
- Aaron Gaffey as Jack Magnus
- Kyle Yaskin as Mike Fletcher
- Nadia Angelini as Sam
- Trudy Kofahl as Tori Magnus
- Jill Moore as Bobbie
- Bart Burson as Zach
- Evan Owen as Brian
- Desi O'Brian as Nelson
- Christopher Michaels as Roger
- John Sarley as Darren
- Joe Haggerty as Borris
- Scott St. James as Taylor
- Staas Yudenko as Victor
- Rob Rotten as Max
- Rachel Rotten as Veronica
- Nick Nyon as Carlos
- Kat Stephens as Lila
- Alex Stone as Junkie #1
- Regina Nicole as Dina
- Wali B. Suhail as Co-Worker #1
- David Ortega as Co-Worker #2
- Kitty as Naked Junkie Girl
- Ivy Villalobos as Little Girl
- Sowilla Henry as Voice of 911 Operator/Darlene
- Steven J. Escobar as Voice of Detective Brannon