May 10th is here and that can only mean two things: David A. Prior’s SOV nightmare Sledgehammer is officially available on special edition DVD and the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Austin screens the film for “Terror Tuesday” tonight!! A ton of a great reviews of the DVD have hit this past week and here is the first roundup:

“A TOTAL BLAST… a pure ‘call up your friends, grab some beers, and watch it while hammered’ experience!” -Complex Magazine

“The DVD is a VHS fetishist’s dream come true!”-Mishka NYC

“Sledgehammer isn’t watched, it’s assimilated.” -Gordon And The Whale

“A glowingly retro experience that will make anyone who appreciates some lo-fi gore beam with admiration!”-Mondo Digital‎

“A juggernaut of nightmarish, scummy freakiness!”-Cinesploitation

“Sledgehammer isn’t so much an artifact from another time as it is from another universe.”-WTF FILM

“Unpredictable, quirky, a little creepy, and strangely dream-like.”-DVD Beaver

Intervision announced its partnership with Mondo yesterday to release Sledgehammer in its native VHS form which earned uproarious enthusiasm from the public. The press release was picked up by the AV Club proclaiming Sledgehammer is the kind of “interdimensional, skull-smashing, common sense-eradicating oddity that could only surface during the heady days of the home-video boom.” and Movies.com writes, “a gift from the genre Gods has been bestowed upon horror geeks and VHS enthusiasts in the form of a new partnership between Austin’s Mondo and Intervision Picture Corporation.” The announcement was also picked up by /Film, IFC.com, Badass Digest, Film School Rejects, FearNet, and many others. Mondo Creative Director Justin Ishmael blogged here about the Sledgehammer release, his passion for VHS, and additional details regarding their all-new VHS-only label “Mondo Video”.