Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!

Kailansorac Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Zbigniew_Krycsiwiki The title appears, barely legible, in blocks, on screen for nineteen slow seconds, before being smashed with the title object. We, the audience, are then seemingly beaten over the head with some of the poorest picture quality imaginable, even for shot-on-video flick, during the opening title sequence, while an imitation of the Phantasm theme is played.Obnoxious, amateur actors/ amateur porn stars gather in a farmhouse where, ten hyperbolic years earlier ( because nine years is never enough time, but eleven years is always too much time ) a double murder was committed. At one point, the filmmakers seemingly forgot they were doing a slasher film, and meander into a food fight, which lasts for nearly eight minutes, before setting up a seance, to contact the spirit of the killer from a decade earlier. " Some of you may have already heard what I'm about to tell you, " Mr. Polo Shirt informs us. We all have, because at this point, the filmmakers pad out the run time with a lengthy expositional flashback to the first scene from this very movie, in a Friday the 13th part 2- inspired bit, telling the audience what we already know. Two of these dip****s are later killed with a sledgehammer, which prompts another dip**** to ask​, " Any clues? " Perhaps the sledgehammer, and the dead bodies themselves, which they move, because they're all drunken morons? They remain in murder house overnight, basically waiting to be killed. The ghost/ killer/ whatever he is materialises/ crawls out of the woodwork, to off these nitwits one by one, and they kind of, sort of, fight for their lives. The cast:Chuck, seemingly cast for his muscular physique, and willingness to wear a polo shirt. Joni: completely forgettable. John: This guy just sucked. Mary: kind of pretty, but has the same awful 80s perm as Joni. Jimmy: looks likes he's killing time until the next Hall and Oates concert, or until he and Mary and Joni go have their hair permed at the same place. Carol: probably the best of an admittedly lousy cast, but with the same perm hairdo as the rest of them. Joey : I don't even remember this guy, but I'm sure he sucked. Lover: sucked. Mother: tolerable, but she and Jimmy and Mary and Joni look like they all have the same hairstylist, who only knows​how to do that same perm. The boy: was a lame villain. Killer: was he the killer? I thought it was the boy? The driver: why was he even here? But for all the grief and aggravation, I must admit I watched this film twice this month, before writing this review. It has some occasionally inspired camera-work, especially during the climax, among static shots of hallways. The music score is eerily effective, it reminded me a bit of German industrial band Einsturzende Neubauten, particularly their record, Zeichnungen des Patienten O. T. Plus, the added terror of a killer stalking his victims in their own home is a terrifying thought in and of itself. Gore fans should find enough in the ending to make it worthwhile, too. I'm not saying this is * good *, but there are worse movies out there, like Blood Massacre, for example. Without the opening and closing credits, this is only 74 minutes long. Without the use of slow motion, it might only be about 20 minutes long.

acidburn-10 "Sledgehammer" is another one of those forgotten 80's slashers and yes this one isn't less cheesy than the others and okay it's not perfect or great but what I found is that this movie was quite fun and has heart, which is very much rare these days.The beginning kept me interested where we have a small boy cruelly locked in a cupboard by his mother so she can carry on with her lover and then things get out of hand and the boy finds a sledgehammer and dispatches his mother and her lover. This yes was predictable but really set the tone for this movie and what's to come. Then fast forward 10 years and we get a group of 30 year old teenagers partying at that same house and well you know what's gonna happen next.Sledgehammer doesn't rank as one of the finest slasher movies from this period there are quite a lot of flaws, but despite that this movie is a lot of fun, the killer is very menacing and creepy and the kills are quite effective despite lacklustre effects. The setting itself was rather dull and tame, too much white and made this movie look dull and this movie holds the distinction for being the first shot on video slasher and it shows, like the shaky camera work and the supernatural angle just didn't work for me and the slow motion scenes were pretty annoying and overused. But despite these flaws "Sledgehammer" does deliver entertainment in some departments, the acting was pretty bad but I've seen a lot worse, they were still quite likable and the party scenes were quite fun and when the killer shows up ready to dispatch the cast, these scenes are quite tense as the killer does seem quite impossible to get away from as he's literally everywhere which was a definite highlight. All in all Sledgehammers is by no means memorable or a cult classic, but a competent effort dripped in pure cheese and definitely a guilty pleasure.

HumanoidOfFlesh "Sledgehammer" is a SOV slasher flick which tells the story about the slowest serial killer in the history of hack'em up genre.The killer uses sledgehammer to murder his victims.He is plagued by traumatic past because he was locked away by his mother during his obviously unhappy childhood."Sledgehammer" oozes machismo.It stars Ted Prior of "Deadly Prey" fame as one of the main characters and is filled with a lot of annoying slow-motion scenes.The pace of "Sledgehammer" is decent and there is some cheap gore.The location sets are laughable:the action takes place inside this barren house.Upretentious in its cheese "Sledgehammer" by David A.Prior is worth checking out for slasher completists.6 sledgehammers out of 10.

Luisito Joaquin Gonzalez (LuisitoJoaquinGonzalez) Sledgehammer was the slasher debut of David A. Prior whose name you may recognise as the mastermind behind the grated cheese extravaganza that was Aerobicide (aka Killer Workout). Although Aerobicide was hardly a work of art, it was mainly memorable for the fact that it was so inadvertently humorous that it caused a damn site more giggles than it did chills down the spine of its viewers. I must admit that I expected more of the same from Sledgehammer as it was released three years before the aforementioned throwaway hit the shelves, which could only mean that it was bound to be considerably worse than its follow up. Its very rare that my initial expectations have failed me throughout the slasher genre, but I must admit that I held a glimmer of hope that Sledgehammer might just be a forgotten gem.We start with a mind numbingly long and equally pointless shot of the outside of a country home. Finally the camera pans inside where we see a mother struggling to silence a young brat who doesn't look too interested in the fact he's in a movie. The middle-aged woman is your typical clichéd sadistic parent, and she proves it by locking the boy in a closet for the evening, much to his unconvincing distaste. She returns downstairs to her seventies-throwback boyfriend and tells him, "Don't worry about the kid, I took care of that little b'stard, he won't be bothering us again tonight." The couple start getting jiggy, which leaves them blissfully unaware that a silhouetted assailant is creeping up behind them. Before you can say 'by the book', the maniac cranks the unsuspecting playboy on the head with a sledgehammer (hence the title.)- Great gore scene by the way! After the mother too is measured up for a body bag, the screen fades to black… Fast-forward fifteen years and a van pulls up outside that same now-abandoned abode. Out pops a gang of outrageously mulleted muscle bound jocks and their scrawny girlfriends, who have presumably turned up only to party-party-PARTY! We never find out why they've picked that particular venue for their gathering, but I must admit that it doesn't look too shabby for a place that's been abandoned for a decade and a half! I should tell you that this motley crew's idea of a 'great party' is somewhat inexplicably bizarre. Yes I agree that the continuous beer swigging and contagious flirtation is par for the course. However I struggle to believe that dancing like a headless chicken and pulling bizarre faces whilst covering each other with the contents of the kitchen cupboard ranks highly on anyone's list of classic fiesta ingredients. Eventually things take a turn for the sinister when someone mentions holding a séance. Bad move, because before you know it a masked sledgehammer-wielding killer has been resurrected from beyond the grave to cause havoc amongst the hapless revellers.Many fans of the eighties slasher craze enjoy watching these back-dated titles mainly for the shameless amount of cheese that's spread thick and fast all over the cheap video tape like butter on a piece of toast. Well if you're one of that number you'll be pleased to hear that watching Sledgehammer will make you believe that you've fallen asleep and woken up in a dairy. There are plenty of bad movie moments to be found here, which are mainly supplied by the hilariously daft cast members and their shockingly out-dated eighties fashions. But the good news is that when the horror starts, David Prior does well to build a creepy atmosphere and the movie manages to switch between moods quite effortlessly. It's a shame that such a gooey opening gore shot was not bettered as the runtime grew, but instead the effects seemed to dry out as the film drew to its conclusion. The cast here do a pretty good job – wow did I really just say that? No honestly, although none of them could ever be labelled as great or even good thespians, they weren't distinctively horrendous. I especially thought that Ted Prior tried his hardest and funnily enough that was proved by the fact that he would continue to work with his brother on many of his later film projects.Shot on video features are not the best quality productions even today, so you can guess how sketchy this looked being released over twenty years ago. It's true that the camcorder-like cinematography does show its limits at times, but thankfully the sets are competently lighted and Prior makes the most of the minimal budget. The maniac could have been given a better disguise; because a hulking lumberjack in a plastic see-through mask was hardly nightmare inducing. Perhaps the flick's only attempt at any originality was allowing the killer to appear and disappear as if he were being beamed up by Scottie every time he needed a rapid escape. Only problem was that David Prior - like a child with a new toy - irritatingly overused the effect ad nauseum. And whilst we're listing the film's numerous flaws I must mention the 'must-have' sex scene, which has to be the most unconvincing reconstruction of the exercise ever filmed. It makes you wonder if the actors involved were perhaps the oldest virgins on the planet?Sledgehammer is as clichéd as an Elvis look-alike contest and makes no attempt to conceal its magpie nature. With that said though, slasher fans will enjoy the odd gore shot and some of the silliest dialogue ever placed on cheap videotape. I doubt you'll ever be able to track a copy of this rarity down, but if you do manage to uncover it somewhere, then give it a go - if only for a quick giggle