One of the best films i have seen

brilliant actors, brilliant editing

There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Virtually everything about director Jeff Burr's creature-feature "Pumpkinhead 2: Blood Wings" is abysmal aside from some of its cast. This uninspired straight-to-video sequel generates only a tenth of the atmosphere of its predecessor. Furthermore, the production design and set decoration are far more superficial, and the creature looks like a big rubber monster. Indeed, a man stomps around in that monster suit. Anybody who loved the original will have a tough time tangling with this exercise in tedium. Andy Robinson, Steve Kanaly, Gloria Hendry, Hill Harper, and Joe Unger deliver solid performances, while the remainder of the cast is strictly amateurish. The slipshod screenplay by Constantine Chachornia and Ivan Chachornia unfolds with a rural black & white sequence set in the 1950s. A bunch of despicable, well-to-do teens wearing jackets with a Red Wings logo on the back slash up a harmless deformed kid and dump him into a bottomless well. This scene sets up the half-baked monster melodrama/police procedural that occurs some twenty years later. Afterward, the action shifts to the present day as a former NYPD cop, Sean Braddock (Andrew Robinson of "Hellraiser"), relocates his wife and wayward daughter Jenny (Ami Dolenz) to his old hometown. Jenny falls in with the wrong crowd of low-lifers led by the mayor's son, Danny Dixon (J. Trevor Edmond), who skip school openly, smoke dope, and get drunk. Naturally, Sheriff Braddock doesn't approve of Jenny's new friends or their miscreant behavior. Several murders take place after a carload of kids smash into a blind woman and later burn her up at her spooky residence. The idiotic kids resurrect Pumpkinhead, and monster attacks six of the obnoxious characters from the 1950s. Ultimately, another group of rednecks catch Pumpkinhead in a cross-fire and kill him. The creature's point-of-view shots are good, but little else merits mention except Gloria Hendry who is cast as a medical technician. Jeff Burr has acknowledged the many shortcomings of the film, and he has made better movies like "Stepfather 2" and "Straight into Darkness." Don't waste your time on this offal unless you want to get first-hand advice from Burr on his director's commentary track.

(Credit to Parca Mortem on IMDb) After a group of teenagers indirectly cause an old witch to be burned, they accidentally revive Pumpkinhead. This time Pumpkinhead is inhabited by the soul of a deformed orphan killed 30 years before. He goes on a bloody rampage after his tormentors and the teenagers. Meanwhile, a local sheriff tries to solve the mystery and stop the murders.I know Pumpkinhead has a lot of fans, but I'm not one of them. I wasn't looking forward to this sequel. With how awful this sequel is, I'll watch the original over this one any day of the week. Not only is it very stupid, but rather dull as well. There were too many random killings as well. We get severed limbs, blood splashes, and more. The monster is really rubbery looking. He wasn't very threatening at all. Amazingly enough, we get a great horror cast. The performances are OK, but almost everyone is unlikable. Ami Dolenz is cute and makes a decent female lead. J. Trevor Edmond annoyed me. It's always fun to see Andrew Robinson in a role, but I disliked his character. I can't forget about the gorgeous, Soleil Moon Frye either.If you're gonna watch any of the Pumpkinhead movies, stick with the original. This is followed by two crappy straight to video sequels. 3.4/10

Mean-spirited and ugly direct-to-video sequel to a great '80s horror film. Starts off with a flashback to some kids taunting a boy with some kind of disfiguring disease. The taunting turns to murder. This is an especially bleak way to start the film. Back in the present day, Sheriff Braddock (Andrew Robinson) moves his family from New York to the small Southern town where he grew up. His daughter (Ami Dolenz) starts hanging out with the wrong crowd. The wrong crowd in this case looks like three Saved By the Bell rejects and a kid dressed up like Judd Nelson in The Breakfast Club.Wrong crowd kids run down the mother of flashback victim. They take her home, where they discover she is preparing to do the ritual to resurrect her son. Why she waited decades to do this is never explained. Then, the leader of the wrong crowd kids (J. Trevor Edmonds) steals a vial of blood and the spell from her house. He and his friends then go do the spell and raise Pumpkinhead. Why they do this makes no sense. Just being morons I guess. From here, you can pretty much guess what happens. Pumpkinhead starts killing people off right and left. A couple of these scenes are fairly amusing. Obviously an inferior sequel in every regard. The performances of the cast range from bad to bored. Roger Clinton was obviously cast for publicity purposes. I refuse to call what he does here acting. He speaks his lines, let's put it that way. Special effects are cheap and don't compare to Stan Winston's first film. Makeup effects for the old lady are far less impressive and Pumpkinhead design is unimaginative. Suspense and atmosphere is non-existent. Directed by Jeff Burr. He's just a terrible director who has made some really awful films his entire career. I guess he knew the right people because talent did not keep getting him work. It's a crap sequel, to be sure, but sadly better than the mess that would follow in the 2000s.

Pumpkinhead II (1994) * (out of 4) Horrid sequel to the 1989 cult favorite has a new sheriff (Andrew Robinson) moving to town where his teenage daughter (Ami Dolenz) gets mixed up with four bad apples and soon the five of them bring back the evil demon Pumpkinhead who of course goes on a killing spree. It seems the demon is avenging the death of a deformed boy but the sheriff and daughter must try to find a way to stop him. This "sequel" really doesn't have any connection to the first film so in many ways one really could look at this as a standalone entry. No matter how you want to look at it it's hard to argue that this is a horrid little film that has very little going for it. I think the worst thing is without question the screenplay, which seems to confuse itself from time to time. As with many low-grade horror movies, the screenplay here forgets to write any interesting characters and instead we just get a bunch of stupid stereotypes and all of them are fighting to see which one can be the most annoying. The five teenagers are all extremely annoying and it's impossible to care for any of them and that includes the so-called good ones. Even worse is that the screenplay throws in this stupid backstory that never really goes anywhere and you can't help but roll your eyes as the evil demon tries to be shown as a "good" guy just trying to avenge something bad. One of the most annoying things about this film is that for the life of me I couldn't figure out why the teens wanted to mess with this demon. I mean, they're shown as simple, pot-smoking idiots but why go after a demon? Oh, that's right, so that people would rent this sucker from their video stores. The performances are pretty bland with some of the actors delivering their lines so poorly that you'd think they were just making fun of the actual film. Robinson comes off the best in his part and there's some good eye candy but this here can't save an otherwise worthless film.