 
A young boy witnessed a
demonic creature named Pumpkinhead (Tom
Woodruff Jr.) who killed a man named
Clayton Heller (Dick Warlock) for doing a
bad deed decades ago as a child
experienced this murder locked in his
cabin with his family.
It is now present day and this child is a
full grown single father named Ed Harley
(Lance Henriksen) with his son Billy
(Matthew Hurley) who owns a little
grocery store in the middle of nowhere as
some teenagers are on a country holiday
dirtbike racing.
Tragedy strikes when one of them named
Joel (John DiAquino) runs over Billy as
he was drunk and kills him while this
poor child was trying to chase after his
dog from running away.
Joel's younger brother Steve (Joel
Hoffman) tries to tell Ed that what
happened was an accident but Ed shows
total rage against these kids as he tries
to find out where a backwoods witch named
Haggis (Florence Shauffler) is residing
but one of the locals named Mr. Wallace
(George 'Buck' Flower) only tells him
that she will raise hell than to help
resurrect his son.
He doesn't listen and digs up
Pumpkinheads corpse requested by Haggis
as she then uses both Ed's and Billy's
blood to revive this demonic creature.
Ed doesn't reailise what he has done as
he feels pain whenever Pumkinhead roams
the woods with him around as this beast
plans to do away all these teens one by
one for the death of poor Billy as Ed
tries to stop this monster before anyone
else gets killed.
I must say that
this film was truly original by having
some sort of a demon rising out of a
pumpkin patch grave with good effects and
a nice b-film look to it adding that
right spooky monster movie touch to it.
I enjoyed the lightning effects and
having a backwoods witch involved too
with locals not wanting anything to do
with her as well as the legend of
Pumpkinhead.
It's really disturbing when you see a
father and son relationship that is
wrecked after his son gets killed which
makes you feel sorry for the old guy.
Pumpkinhead looked like one of the
creatures from Aliens and of course was
made by the same special effects guy too.
This one is for sure a great one to watch
on Halloween.
The acting is
fairly good as we have a nice performance
by cult veteran Lance Henriksen
as a basket case store owner who shows
nice upsetting emotions and great energy
as he always does with his work in a
film.
Jeff East has that nice boy next
door looks to him for a horror film like
this as he suits the role and brings his
character failry clear to the screen.
John DiAquino plays a nice bad ass
drunk in the film as he knew how to act
paranoid and aggressive.
Joel Hoffman who plays his younger
brother is okay with his part but nothing
really too special as I found his only
great performance was his small role in
the 1987 slasher flick Slaughterhouse.
Yet, this film marks to be his most
successful one to date.
Kerry Remsen who played his
girlfriend stood out well with her
paranoid attitude and screaming behavior.
Cynthia Bain plays a nice leading
actress in the film with her scared
emotions with pumped up energy and knew
how to act emotional quite well too. She
had the right looks to be a victim in a
horror film too.
Florence Shauffler looked believably
creepy playing the backwoods witch in the
film along with her creepy tones too.
Brian Bremmer really brought a great
performance as a son to a redneck family
really bringing his lines across
superbly.
But I had to admit I really enjoyed George
'Buck' Flower bringing a perfect
redneck charm to his part in the film and
good stern expressions too. Bless his
soul.
There's even a small part by Dick
Warlock who seemed to bring a great
creeped out character in the beginning of
the film as he can wear other hats than
just Michael Myers.
There's the odd blood here
and there but nothing too gruesome.
Stan Winston was
awesome with his work in the film as he
shows a great prologue that involved
supporting actor Dick Warlock
running away in the woods on a stormy
night and banging on a cabin door and
screaming for help which looked good as
well as his body being pulled away and
dragged by Tom Woodruff Jr. which
looked very creepy as well as a good shot
on supporting child actor Chance Corbitt
Jr. staring at the
window during the terrifying moment.
We
then have a nice look with Lance
Henriksen working outside on a dusty
day as the camera looking good focusing
on him.
There is a good dialogue between Henriksen
and child actor Matthew Hurley going
in their vehicle to the corner store
which looked like a nice father and child
act.
There's also a good chanting on bit part
child actors like Mayam Bialik, Jandi
Swanson and Devon Odessa circling
around Joseph Piro as siblings
taunting him about Pumpkinhead which will
always be well remembered along with a
good shot on Cynthia Bain
staring at them with creeped out features
and a nice reaction on her telling them
to stop it.
There's good shots on John
DiAquino and Joel Hoffman
riding their dirtbikes around doing stunt
driving and jumping around.
A good shot on Hurley running in
the dirt field for his dog with Cynthia
Bain and Kerry Remsen
screaming after him in fear and suddenly
a good shot on Hoffman in the
sir with his bike and a terrifying shot
on DiAquino hitting him as well
with Hurley looking good on the
ground dead as a doornail.
Everyone does well by crying and freaking
out.
A good upsetting look on Henriksen
running towards his dead son and then
carrying him away. Hoffman does
well with upsetting words explaining it
was an accident and then Henriksen
does well turing around with an evil look
on his face.
There's a good dialogue with Henriksen
towards George 'Buck' Flower about
finding Haggis to resurrect his son as Flower
does well with his intimidated reactions
not to do such a thing and knowing
nothing on where she is.
There is a nice dark and creepy setting
with Henriksen approaching the
old creepy cabin with supporting actress Florence
Schauffler sitting in her chair by
the fireplace.
There are good angle shots between Henriksen
and Schauffler having a wicked
dialogue.
Perfect dark shots on Henriksen
digging up Pumpkinhead's corpse on a hill
with the mist floating around.
A perfect shot on Woodruff Jr. rising
up in the cabin with Henriksen
lying on the floor trembling in pain.
We also have great menacing reactions by DiAquino
towards his fellow castmates in
their cabin.
There's a good scene between Hoffman
and Remsen out in the dark woods
together with Hoffman showing her a
crucifix necklace.
There's also many good shots on Hoffman
being dragged around with a clawlike hand
on his head throwing him around too.
Remsen does well trying to pray at a
table and going ballistic.
Good chasing scenes involving Bain,
DiAquino and Jeff East from
Woodruff Jr. as we see many dark
shots on him standing with lightning
flashing and ready to attack.
Good shots on Henriksen with a
rifle or flametorch trying to do away
with Woodruff Jr.
A perfect shot on DiAquino standing
there next to Woodruff Jr. on
the ground and then grabbing his leg and
holding him upside down.
A good blunt attitude on Flower
telling Bain and East
to get away from his property.
We spot a perfect dialogue between
Brian Bremmer walking into the woods
with Bain and East to a
torn down church explaining to them what
the creature is as it was strongly
directed.
A nice shot with the blue light shining
on Woodruff Jr. standing in the
broken down church.
We also have nice emotions on Bain
when she confronts Henriksen that what
happened was an accident.
Yes indeed, this director has the magic
touch for a demonic monster horror flick.
We have some great
bluesy accoustic country like guitar
playing along with some harmonica music.
There's also terrific creepy dark
synthesizer playing during the terrors
with Pumpkinhead.
Clayton
Heller: What kind of a Christian
are you for God sakes???
Kim: [talking
about Joel and Chris looking for Steve]
They should be okay, right? I mean, they
took the guns and everything.
Maggie: God is the only thing that
can stop what's out there, Kim.
Tracy: [walks over to the
drawer and pulls out a large kitchen
knife] Just in case God doesn't show.
Tracy: Can't you
stop this? Can't you call it off?
Ed Harley: Nothin' can call it
off...
[lights flamethrower]
Ed Harley: ...but I'm gonna send
it back to whatever the Hell it come
from!
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