Sledgehammer

Sledgehammer (1983)

Not so much a slasher as a smoosher flick, Sledgehammer has the added distinction of being the first horror movie to be made and distributed entirely on video.

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Forget everything you know about the legions of direct-to-video dreck that followed, because this movie just happens to be one of the most indelibly weird movies of the era. True, it’s so weird that at a certain point I had to start hallucinating messages in it… but then again, maybe it’s only natural that a movie that changes gear midway through would inspire a review that does the same.