Sledgehammer (film)

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Sledgehammer
DVD release cover, replicating the original VHS cover art
Directed by	David A. Prior
Written by	David A. Prior
Produced by	Nicolas T. Kimaz
Starring	Ted Prior Tim Aguilar Linda McGill Sandy Brooke John Eastman Janine Scheer Stephen Wright
Cinematography	Salim Kimaz
Edited by	Ralph Cutter
Music by	Ted Prior Marc Adams Philip G. Slate
Production company	I & I Productions
Distributed by	World Video Pictures, Inc.
Release date	1983 (1983) (United States)
Running time	87 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$40,000

Sledgehammer is a 1983 independent slasher film written and directed by David A. Prior. The film tells the story of a young boy who murdered his mother and her lover with a sledgehammer. Ten years after the murder and the child's mysterious disappearance, a group of teens stay in the house for a weekend when they are terrorized by the ghost of the little boy.

Sledgehammer was one of the earliest horror films to be shot-on-video, though not the first, a distinction claimed by Boardinghouse which was released one year earlier. However, while Boardinghouse received a limited theatrical release, Sledgehammer was originally released direct-to-video. It has retained a cult following, and was re-released on DVD in 2011 by Intervision, a sub-label of cult film distributor Severin Films.