Seventeen years after slaughtering all but one member of a family, a vicious serial killer known only as "The Sandman" awaits execution. But first, his jailers allow a minister to visit the killer to give him last rites, unaware that the minister is a voodoo priest and an ally of the condemned prisoner. The priest places a hex on the Sandman so that when he is executed, his soul migrates into a new body made of sand. To sever his ties with his former life and achieve absolute power, the sandman must find and kill a man named Griffin, the sole survivor of the last family murdered by the killer
Practical Effects
The sand transformation effects are gloriously janky
Acting
Michael Harris commits hard to being menacing dust
Director
Turi Meyer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Kathryn Morris's first horror role before becoming the lead on Cold Case.
Released during the post-Elm Street era when every studio rushed out supernatural slashers with gimmicky killers.
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