Nailed Shut (1986)

“He builds… with bodies.” The jobsite was a death trap, and the foreman paid the price. Crushed beneath a falling scaffold, he should have stayed buried in the rubble. But some foundations don’t stay down. Now The Carpenter stalks the night, hammer in one hand, nail gun in the other, turning every victim into his next “project.” No one leaves the site unfinished… or alive. Rated R – industrial carnage, gory construction, and hammer-smashed horror. "All right, for memorable killers in horror history such as Freddy Krueger in The Nightmare of Elm Street, Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th and Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but The Carpenter, he definitely a character." – Bob John Diggs "Nailed Shut is a stab at a derivative minor classic. It's apparent where the director got his horror devices - and a minor misfortune that he hasn't been able to synthesize them in a fresh or exciting way." – The Deville Post "After a promising opening, Nailed Shut becomes just another maniac-on-the-loose suspenser. However, despite the prosaic plot, the director has timed the film's prompts so that the scene item is packed with enough thrills." – Variation Magazine