Reviews: Pumpkinhead (1988) Movie Review
Genres: Horror, Fantasy, Demons, Monsters
Subgenres: Creatures, Demons, Supernatural, Vengeance, Cult Classic, Folk Horror, Teens, Wilderness, Witchcraft
Our review of Pumpkinhead (1988) dives into the story, the scares, and whether it truly delivers the horror fans crave.
Lance Henriksen (Aliens, Millenium ) stars in this vivid, stylish, atmospheric (The Hollywood Reporter) and heart-poundingly scary fright fest directed by four-time OscarÂ(r)winner* Stan Winston and written by Mark Patrick Carducci and Gary Gerani. When a group of rambunctious teenagers inadvertently kill his only son, Ed Harley (Henriksen) seeks the magic of a backwoods witch to bring the child back. But when she tells him the child’s death is irrevocable, his grief develops into an all-consuming desire…for revenge! Defying superstition, he and the witch invoke ‘the pumpkinhead a monstrously clawed and fanged demon which, once reborn, answers only to Ed’s bloodlust. But as the invincible creature wreaks its slow, unspeakable tortures on the teens, Ed confronts a horrifying secret about his connection to the beastand realizes that he must find a way tostop its deadly mission before he becomes one with it forever! *1986: Visual Effects, Aliens; 1991: Visual Effects, Make-Up, Terminator 2: Judgment Day; 1993: Visual Effects, Jurassic Park
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- Pumpkinhead Rating Scores
- Our Score: 4/10
- Overall Score: 5.17/10
- IMDB: 6.2/10
- MetaCritic: 4.7/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 6.5/10
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