A bunch of townsfolk are
killed and left for dead as a madman
working in a mortuary named Doc Fraser
(Doug Bradley) seems to do experiments on
the corspes and then throwing them in the
swamp.
This enrages the loves one's especially a
mother of a child named Molly Sue Allen
(Tess Panzer) and meets up with a
backwoods witch named Haggis (Lynne
Verrell) to help her as she brings two
other townsfolks named Ellie Johnson
(Iolana Ginghina) and a man who was
nearly left for dead in a swamp named
Richie (Radu Iacobian) in which Haggis
uses their blood to summon up a corpse
that becomes Pumpkinhead to seek revenge
on Doc but this creature seems to kill
anyone in it's path and the three of them
feel it's anger and pain.
They must find a way to stop it but each
time when one of the three is murdered
Pumpkinhead ends in pain and Ed Harley
(Lance Henricksen) haunts a superstitous
local named Bunt Wallace (Douglas
Roberts) about his fate since him and his
wife named Dehliah (Lisa McAllister) are
helping Doc with his evil deeds but feel
that they have no choice but to continue
on.
A sequel that took
place right after the first flick with
many cheesy moment but it was well done
too. Since watching this one the previous
sequel was just a story of it's own. We
see the character Ed Harley as a ghost
which was very necessary and Haggis the
witch returns too but however the scene's
weren't as dark looking like in the first
film due to a lower budget and the CGI
effects were a wee bit off but this seems
to be common with sequels during the
millenium to cult classics which happened
nearly two decades beforehand.
Alot of the scene's looked like a remake
from the first flick but at the same time
I thought it was neat and a tribute to
the first flick since the makers wanted
this one to be perfectly clear it is a
sequel to the first one. We spot some
good flashback sequences to the first
flick too to top it all off.
For all you fans of the first one you may
get a kick out of seeing this one but
again you may think to youself I've seen
this before in the first flick since
there's not many new twists in this one.
Call me corny but I still dug it.
The acting is
fairly descent as lead actor Doug
Bradley proved he can wear many
other hats than his demonic Pinhead
character and instead plays an evil mad
scientist of some sort. He was very good
with his evil words. He was the kind of
fellow you wouldn't want to deal with and
made that very clear with his
performance.
Douglas Roberts does well with his
paranoia on the Pumpkinhead legend as
well as really acting unnormal and
supersititous like. He had the right
goofy looks too to top it all off. This
guy was a true character actor
regardless.
Tess Panzer showed good crying
emotions to her part as well as some nice
energy too but at times she seems to lack
in some spots like when she had to get
tough and it looked a bit stale.
Otherwise she stood out quite well for
her role.
Emanual Parvu brought a nice deep
southerness to his role as a tough
looking hillbilly and showed good
aggressions too for when he needed to be
along with acting adventureous too.
It's great to see Lance Henricksen
returning from the grave as a ghost this
time showing a nice ghostly presence with
his icy and cold speaking. He showed nice
dark expressions to his part and really
came across intimidating like too.
Supporting actor Catalin Paraschiv was
a little too over the top as a drug
dealer and seemed overly goofy and too
comedic. I mean there's a time and place
for everything but he really wasn't too
convincing.
Lynne Verrell this time plays the
backwoods witch named Haggis and she does
come across evil and wicked looking and
her behavior was somewhat dark but she
doesn't outdo the original actress at
all.
A person is dissected with
skin being torn off him
A kidney is pulled out of a victim
A face is smashed near a jail cell with
blood gushing out
A man is impaled on a steeple of a church
Pumkinhead's tail has stabbed a few
people and bloodily too
Jake West seems to
do okay with his work on this film as he
shows some good chasing scene's around
the forest along with some skeletal
bodies near a swampy area.
There's a good shot on bit part actor Bart
Sidles running away and hiding in
some hay at a barn with Doug Bradley
and some supporting actors like Radu
Iacobian looking around and then
stabbing at him with a pitchfork with
looked impressively done imagining a
bully wanting to hurt you to death.
We have a good camera shot looking down
on Doug Bradley pulling out a
liver from Arel acting like a
mad scientist which will make you cringe
for sure.
We spot a good shot on supporting actor Radu
Iacobian crawling out of a swamp and
then running in the middle of the raod
and stopping a vehicle with many good
camera takes on this.
There's a good close up shot on Tess
Panzer kneeling down and crying
after spotting her child's corpse as well
as many good shots on dead corpses being
dragged side by side with other corpses.
We spot a good dialogue sequence with Panzer
trying to find some information out of
Lynne Varrall as Haggis and acting
cold about it all.
There's good shots on all Panzer,
Ioana Ginhina and Iacobian
walking to the Haggis swamp house with a
good shot on Varrall rocking in
her chair near a fireplace as well as
showing a shot on Panzer kneeling down
near her and Varrall grabbing
her wrist.
There's many good close up shots on the
three having the sides of their fingers
slit with blood being put in a cup.
We spot a good cheesy shot on Arel
lying as a corpse and awakening from the
blood spilt on him and turning into
Pumpkinhead with the three tripping out
and being knocked unconcious. Alot of
this direction looked like a remake on
the original but was done a bit cheesier
and not as dark looking either.
We spot many good creepy dialogues
between Lance Henriksen haunting
Douglas Roberts with him getting
spooked.
There's a good dialogue with Roberts
towards Lisa McAllister in a
jail cell talking about Pumkinhead's
vengeance as well as a cheesy shot on a
door breaking down and the Pumpkinhead
figure approaching with a shot on bit
part actor Vasilescu Valentin trying
to shoot this beast as well as both McAllister
and Roberts freaking out and
trying to get out of the jail cell in
which the direction looked slightly corny
during this moment.
There's a good moment with McAllister
freaking out towards Bradley
about Pumpkinhead returning and Bradley
getting sleazy towards her trying to
comfort her at the same time which looked
well done.
There's a good dialogue between Roberts
and Bradley talking about what
happened in the first film with the
situation they're encountering with
Pumpkinhead right now with a shot on Henricksen
standing a distance behind Bradley
on what Roberts was saying.
There's a nice shot on Dicu Aurel climbing
up a tower along with the Pumpkinhead
figure about to attack.
We spot a cheesy moment with Philip
Bowen preaching and then Pumpkinhead
figure crashing from one of the windows
and wreacking havoc. It just didn't seem
to work.
We have many good camera takes on Roberts
trying to remove a corpse from the
steeple on top of a roof without trying
to fall.
There's a nice wicked manipulative
attitude with Bradley towards Roberts
and McAllister about
him leading them to safety with them
acting like basket cases as it looked
believeably dysfuntional.
There's a nice moment with Emanual
Parvu getting demanding towards Varral
about what is all happening which was
energetically directed.
There's a good moment with the Pumkinhead
figure attacking Catalin Paraschiv with
McAllister laughing away making
this scene look truly twisted.
There's a nice moment with Bradley
putting poison in a needle and then being
forceful with Iacobian by
putting a needle in him along with a good
shot of the Pumpkinhead figure crashing
through a wall.
We have a good moment with Panzer looking
possessed and pointing a gun at Bradley
and suddenly acting like she's
suffocating.
Ginghina does a good job acting
weak and upset kneeling down towards Parvu.
There's numerous
terrific score's for this film like the
deep violin music as well as the chanting
and some organ music too with the rusty
sound effects which all of this sounded
fantastic composed by Rob Lord who
can really go places with what he has to
offer.
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