Review #72: Pumpkinhead (1988)
This review was originally written in October 2019. October Horror Movie Review #20: Pumpkinhead This is one of those movies that I know I'd heard of as a kid, but never seen. And now that I've seen it I don't even know how I heard of it because I can guarantee nothing from this movie was part of the collective consciousness of my youth (whereas everyone knew about Jason in the hockey mask with a machete and Freddy wearing a sweater and killing you in your dreams, even though I never saw those movies until I was an adult). Pumpkinhead is a story about a man whose son is accidentally killed by some fast-talking city folk come ridin' their bikes up and yonder, so he employs the talents of an old witch to get revenge. She summons Pumpkinhead, a being of pure vengeance, who goes on a killing spree- but as the bodies pile up, the man starts having second thoughts, and in trying to undo the summoning he finds that he and the monster have more in common than he thought... This...