I set to watch "Pumpkinhead" with no real expectations,I decided to watch it because of Lance Henriksen. His last movie I saw was "The Nature of the Beast" and I enjoyed in it, so I figured that this one is going to be another teenage horror. But I was wrong about it,but I wasn't wrong about one thing. I thought this is going to be underrated movie and it is. "Pumpkinhead" is first movie directed by Stan Winston(won 4 Oscars for best effects, visual effects in movies like "Aliens", "Terminator 2", "Jurassic Park",...,also worked on "Predator", "Edward Scissorhands", "Artificial Intelligence", "The Thing").
What I really like about this movie is story. Story is about six teenagers who go into cabin for a rest. On their way they stop in a grocery store.Ed Harley runs that grocery store with his young son. Ed goes to do some business and one of the teenagers run over Ed's little boy with motorbike. Ed's son dies and Ed decides to call demon called Pumpkinhead to destroy that teenagers who accidentally killed his son.
Story is excellent in my opinion and nothing stupid happens in it but what I didn't like is the way Pumpkinhead kills its victims. All those murders are a bit funny but the story is so good and original that I just can't say much against this movie. Movie is made in 1989.,in year I was born,and I watched so many stupid horror movies that "Pumpkinhead" is really refreshing. Last of crap horrors I watched is "Man-Thing". "Man-Thing" cannot compete with "Pumpkinhead" in nothing.
In ""Pumpkinhead" there is no teenage sex, stupid teenage talks and everything happens quickly. Everyone dies in very little time(whole movie lasts for 86 minutes) and no one can't destroy Pumpkinhead. "Pumpkinhead" is right way for every horror fan and for all todays horror directors. Learn something from "Pumpkinhead" cause "nothin' can call it off..."
What I really like about this movie is story. Story is about six teenagers who go into cabin for a rest. On their way they stop in a grocery store.Ed Harley runs that grocery store with his young son. Ed goes to do some business and one of the teenagers run over Ed's little boy with motorbike. Ed's son dies and Ed decides to call demon called Pumpkinhead to destroy that teenagers who accidentally killed his son.
Story is excellent in my opinion and nothing stupid happens in it but what I didn't like is the way Pumpkinhead kills its victims. All those murders are a bit funny but the story is so good and original that I just can't say much against this movie. Movie is made in 1989.,in year I was born,and I watched so many stupid horror movies that "Pumpkinhead" is really refreshing. Last of crap horrors I watched is "Man-Thing". "Man-Thing" cannot compete with "Pumpkinhead" in nothing.
In ""Pumpkinhead" there is no teenage sex, stupid teenage talks and everything happens quickly. Everyone dies in very little time(whole movie lasts for 86 minutes) and no one can't destroy Pumpkinhead. "Pumpkinhead" is right way for every horror fan and for all todays horror directors. Learn something from "Pumpkinhead" cause "nothin' can call it off..."