Sledgehammer (1984) – David A. Prior.

A boozy weekend in the country becomes a livid, death-drenched nightmare, once the noisome revellers ill-fated séance awakens the supernatural behemoth that homicidally haunts this desolated domicile. Sledgehammer's hugely revered status amongst the S.O.V cognoscenti is richly deserved, remaining a bodaciously brutal, enjoyably retrograde, wantonly cerebellum splattering terror treat! Bizarrely, the male protagonists conspicuous mood swings, gross insensitivity, and egregious displays of misogyny, Sledgehammer occasionally feels like a TV movie of the week special, luridly warning the nation's youth against the incumbent perils of Steroid abuse.

One might additionally call Prior's feverish 80s slasher Synthhammer, as the scintillatingly omnipresent, skull-splintering bass-loaded electronic score certainly proves no less impactful than the hulking maniac's exhilaratingly brutal modus operandi! I felt little sympathy for the victims, the men were boorish jocks, and their girlfriends frequently expressed a baffling tolerance their asinine behaviour, making the killer's bludgeoning, slow-motion rampage an altogether justifiable cull. Sledgehammer remains a product of its time, cynically created to capitalise upon the ascendant popularity of gory slasher tropes, but that perversely lends it so much goofily nostalgic appeal when enjoyed today!