Simply Perfect

Powerful

Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

The acting in this movie is really good.

I looked this movie up so I could applaud all the others who watched it and thought the same as myself. Then I saw a 3 stars average! This crappie movie is some of the worst mess I have ever seen. There are some bad horror movies out there, but Pumpkinhead takes the cake. A cult following? Yeah, you'd have to be in a cult to think this movie was any good. You can never really see the creature because the film maker's made sure to put it in the most dimly lit scenes. Why? So, you couldn't see how terrible the Pumpkinhead costume really was! I know I saw wires. I can't believe there are sequels. Ooooh, I really hate this movie! Lol!

I first saw this on a VHS in the early 90s. Revisited this recently on a blu ray. Plot - Lance Henriksen is a country man who owns a small grocery and is raising his small boy on his own. As a kid, he had witnessed Pumpkinhead (demon/monster) in action. City kids come into town with their motorbikes, and cause an accident killing Henriksen's small kid.... The movie is shot in the remote backwoods (myself a fan of backwoods, badlands n road movies). This film is the directorial debut of the FX genius Stan Winston. Pumpkinhead easily ranks among the best monster movie. It is one of my fav monster movie. The design of the demon/creature is astounding. The movie also features some good cinematography. The swamp scenes are bathed in an eerie blue light. The murky, foggy woods where the witch lives is just fantastic. The hill where the creature is dug up is spooky. The design of the witch's cottage is the true visual highlight. Its an old and dilapidated one, full of old relics and even some living animals. The flickering candle create heavy shadows n make the witch herself much scarier. Henriksens character and performance r excellent.

After a group of bikers accidentally kill Billy Harley, his father Ed is devastated and the only thing he wants is revenge.He goes to an old woman who is said to be a witch, and conjures up the titular demonic creature and with revenge on his mind unleashes him upon the bikers.....It's not the breaking the mould for horror films, but Winston has crafted a fairly decent film, with wonderful puppetry of the titular character.When you can get over the fact that Billy looks just like the Milky Bar Kid, what you get is an enjoyable over the top horror film that crosses Death Wish with The Keep.Henriksen is wonderful as the grieving father, and puts in a really good performance in what could have easily have been a coasting role for him.The rest of the cast unfortunately, are nothing more than your atypical horror film teen fodder, and you can more or less guess which ones get killed and in which order.It's a pretty gory film considering when it was made, and how restraint horror films were because of the over the top censoring film boards were at that time (thankyou James Ferman), but they are inventive, and the film doesn't hide the fact that Pumpkinhead looks so good.There is a little twist at the end which is quite impressive, and a scene that refers to the cold opening, but other than that, it's just a perfectly perfunctory horror film with wonderful special effects.

After accidentally killing his son, a group of teens find themselves subject to a series of attacks by a demonic creature summoned to take revenge on their actions by the father and must try to stop it from completing its rampage.This here is one of the more impressive and enjoyable creature features out there. One of the biggest pluses here is the fact that this one manages to introduce a rather novel and intriguing storyline for its monster that comes off very well. The idea of letting loose a horrible creature of revenge to right perceived wrongs is a fairly new twist to the typical monster-on-the-loose style films and the way this element is woven into the story makes for some pretty exciting times. It needs a plausible scenario to set events in motion which is done here with the fine scene early on that kills of the son in what looks genuinely like a true accident so there's a logical reason for the demon conjuring, a fine set-up that gives the kids something resembling a conscience and finally brings the actual point home with a practically-chilling exhumation sequence in the appropriately long-dead cemetery that not only meets the functions of the story but also gives off the feeling of appropriate unease required for such scenes. The other big part about the novel story here is the physical connection between the two, as he manages to meld together with the creature during the attack scenes which is quite an inventive feeling here. There's also some good times here with this one featuring some really enjoyable stalking here with this one featuring some rather intense chases here with the creature going after the gang through the woods which results in great moments at the cabin and the abandoned church which provide this one with some thrilling action, nice suspense and a series of chilling encounters all packed with great gore and bloody kills. Combined here with the spectacular special effects for the creature and it's enough to overcome the one flaw present which is the nonsensical action that occurs in the later half. Many of the scenes here make no sense and come at a complete reversal from what was told before. This is really the only part here that doesn't really work.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language and intense violent themes toward children.