On May 10, 2011, Intervision Pictures Corp. in association with Severin Films will release a special edition DVD of the eighties shot-on-video slasher SLEDGEHAMMER
, directed by David A. Prior (FELONY
) and starring his brother Ted Prior (KILLER WORKOUT
). A group of kids in a backwoods house partying and screwing. Just throw in a killer with a novel weapon, a synth score, eighties hair and clothes, and you've got a slasher with a cult following rediscovered on DVD. One of the early shot-on-video slashers produced to take advantage of the of the burgeoning video rental market, SLEDGEHAMMER makes its digital debut loaded with special features!SLEDGEHAMMER DVD specs:
- 4:3 fullscreen (original aspect ratio) transfer
- English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono audio
- Audio Commentary with director David A. Prior
- Audio Commentary with Bleeding Skull creators Joseph A. Ziemba and Dan Budnik
- "Hammertime" featurette with Destroy All Movies! author Zack Carlson
- "SledgehammerLand" featurette with Cinefamily programmers Hadrian Belove and Tom Fitzgerald
- Interview with director David A. Prior
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) plays a psych grad who has taken a job teaching at the Ravenscroft School for troubled girls. Her boss (Robert Vaughn, 
) does not seem too concerned that girls have a habit of mysteriously disappearing (maybe he isn't aware that a psycho in a Nixon mask is abducting them and walling them up in the corridors of the former insane asylum beneath the school grounds?). Soon she's hallucinating breathing walls, ant attacks, and gratuitous raving John Carradine (
) appearances. Donald Pleasance (
) pops up as his own kooky self, along with porn-queen Ginger Lynn Allen, horror effects artist/actor William Butler (the 
remake, 
), and Nia Long (
) - who would probably like to forget this early credit. Jess Franco editor Gerard Kikoine (EDGE OF SANITY) directs.
). Corman scripter Charles B. Griffith directs. In GRAND THEFT AUTO, Howard and Nancy Morgan are star-crossed lovers who steal her father's limousine and hightail it to Vegas to get hitched before their parents, a jealous boyfriend, a P.I., and bounty hunters can stop them. Howard's Happy Days mother Marion Ross co-stars along his with real life brother Clint (
) and father Rance in this rip-roaring family affair. The late Gary Graver (
) served as cinematographer, Joe Dante (
) edited, and 
's Jon Davison produced. Both previously released in old fullscreen transfers by New Concorde and Beuna Vista, Shout Factory's 2-disc set is the only way to really enjoy these!
) play two drug dealing hippies who go on a killing rampage.
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