In his Pumpkinhead poetry, Ed Justin said, “Keep away from the Pumpkinhead, unless you’re tired of living,”
Pumpkinhead is an American supernatural horror film directed by Stan Winston, a skilled special effects artist, and based on the poem. It was released in 1988. Pumpkinhead, also known as the Monster of Vengeance, is a hideous, terrible creature summoned by anybody desiring vengeance on those who have mistreated them. When the monster is summoned, it begins ruthlessly slaying individuals one by one.
Despite the fact that the film did not perform well at the box office, it has become a cult classic. The initial film was followed by Pumpkinhead ll: Bloodwings, a direct-to-video sequel to the 1988 blockbuster Pumpkinhead, as well as Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes and Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud, both of which were produced into movies. In 1993, “Pumpkinhead: The Rites of Exorcism” was released as a comic book series, and in 1995, “Bloodwings: Pumpkinhead’s Revenge” was released as a computer game.
Let us take a look at each story one by one.
Pumpkinhead: The Original Movie Released in 1988 -Explored
The story commenced on a tense night in the year 1957, terror looming over the family of Tom Harley as he waited with his wife and young son Ed in his cabin. A terrified man came running and sought shelter at Tom’s cabin, but Tom refused his plea as it would endanger his family. Young Ed, horrified with what was happening, watched through his window as he caught a glimpse of the man being brutally killed by a distorted creature.
Young Ed Harley had grown into a handsome man owning a small store in the country and was forced to leave his young son, Billy, alone while running for errands. A group of teenage campers, while riding their dirt bikes, caused fatal injuries to Harley’s son. Only one of them was compassionate enough to stay with the injured boy till his father returned, while the rest fled from the spot.
At their cabin, the campers quarreled among themselves about informing the police. Joel, responsible for the boy’s fatal injuries, was already on probation for a similar incident, hit one of the friends unconscious, and locked the other two to prevent his friends from informing the cops.
Harley went to the supposed witch with his son’s body, but she conveyed that she would not be able to bring his son back.
A devastated Harley requested the witch for vengeance, who agreed, but also warned him that revenge would come with a terrible cost. He followed her orders and went to an old graveyard in the mountains, where he dug up a distorted corpse and brought it back to the witch. The witch took the blood from Harley and his son and resurrected the corpse, which rose as the gangly, monstrous creature, the Pumpkinhead.
Meanwhile, Joel repented his actions and decided to surrender to the police, but the monster had already arrived for revenge. One of the girls, Maggie, was hypnotized by a voice calling her name and followed it outside the cabin. However, Steve brought her out of the trance but was attacked and killed by the Pumpkinhead, while Harley experienced the entire murder through the monster’s eyes.
While the campers searched for Steve, Maggie was captured by the clawed hand of the monster. As Ed started experiencing the fiercely, horrifying murder of Maggie, he was unable to bear it anymore and rushed to the witch to stop the demon from further violence. But the witch laughed in sarcasm and informed that the Pumpkinhead could not be stopped unless its vengeance was completed and warned Harley that he would die if he interfered in the monster’s mission.
Joel tried to confront the monster with a knife, but it slammed him aside and dragged off another camper. Harley arrived at the spot and shot the Pumpkinhead, but as Joel leaned to check, the monster stabbed him with Joel’s rifle and killed him. The three remaining campers begged the local people to help them, but they denied help as they didn’t want to endanger their lives, as the monster had marked the campers for revenge.
Bunt, a local boy, decided to help the remaining two campers, Tracey and Chris and took them to an abandoned church. There Bunt narrated the legendary story of the Pumpkinhead, stating that he is summoned by someone who seeks revenge on people who have wronged him, and the monster kills all the people targeted for revenge. If anyone tries to stop the Pumpkinhead, he also becomes its target. Consequently, the Pumpkinhead attacked Chris, threw him against a tree, and dragged the body to Harley’s home, where Tracey, Bunt, and Harley were hiding.
Bunt became the next target of the Pumpkinhead as he had helped the campers. As Harley experienced the attack on Bunt, Tracey was horrified to find that his face had started resembling the monster. She escaped outside and found Chris struggling to escape as the demon attacked Bunt. Accidentally Harley stumbled and got stabbed in the arm by a pitchfork when both he and the monster cried aloud in agony, and the monster released Bunt.
Harley noticed that with time, the Pumpkinhead’s face is assuming a more human form, and suddenly he realized that he and Pumpkinhead are one entity and the only way to destroy him was to kill himself.
The creature attacked Tracey by grabbing her neck, but Harley shot him in the head. The Pumpkinhead temporarily collapsed on the ground but soon got up and grabbed Bunt again. Tracey finally took the gun as Harley begged her to shoot him, but she hesitated.
But as Harley got up and tried to attack, Tracey fired her gun, killing Harley and the Pumpkinhead simultaneously. Tracey, Bunt, and Chris stared in disbelief as the Pumpkinhead burst into flames. Late at night, the witch buried Harley’s disfigured body in Pumpkinhead’s grave. The concluding scene of the movie shows Harley’s corpse still wearing the necklace made by his son Billy.
Most horror fans look forward to a unique creature in horror films, and one such creature was definitely the Pumpkinhead which was immensely successful in spreading its impact, especially haunting the children of the 80s and 90s. Stan Winston’s creation of the Pumpkinhead was a great hit though the movie itself sank in the box office.
Fortunately, the film found a growing audience via cable airings, and the Pumpkinhead gained major popularity. The film also gained major positive feedback from the critics especially appreciating Winston for his unique creation of Pumpkinhead, and though the plot and acting were not remarkable the film kept the audience interested while terrorizing the children.
PUMPKINHEAD 2: Blood Wings – Released in 1994
The movie started in the year 1958 in a small backwater town named Ferren Woods. An old blind witch, Ms. Osie, was seen feeding a deformed orphan called Tommy, who in fact was the offspring of Pumpkinhead. While Tommy was being fed, a group of six teens noticed him and stopped by. They were convinced that he was a kind of demonic creature, and they started chasing him with knives and baseball bats. Finally, they managed to corner him at an old iron mine, thrashed him, and dropped him into the mine, killing him brutally.
After 35 years, Sheriff Sean Braddock arrived at the town with his wife and his daughter Jenny. Sean was a friend of Tommy before he was slaughtered by the six teens. Sean had grown up in Farren Woods and had returned to the town only after being offered the job of the sheriff. He had served as a police officer before while his daughter Jenny had got herself into lots of trouble with the law, especially with her father.
At school, Jenny met a group of unruly kids, one of them being Daniel “Danny” Dixon, whose father was one of the teens who had participated in Tommy’s murder and had become the town’s judge. One night the teens sneaked out and stole Sean’s car, only to hit Ms. Osie accidentally.
When they went to her cabin to check her condition, they found a spellbook and a vial containing blood. Ms. Osie was trying to resurrect her dead son Tommy, and when she found the teens intrigued with her things, she ordered them out, but Danny hit her and fled with a vial of blood.
Danny and his friends dug out Tommy’s dead body and used the blood while chanting the black magic spell and tried to resurrect Tommy imagining it to be a crazy prank.
In the meantime, Jenny noticed that Ms. Osie’s cabin was ablaze while Danny and his friends escaped. Ms. Osie was taken to a hospital due to severe burn injuries. Unknowingly to Danny and his friends, the spell attempted by them to resurrect Tommy was fulfilled, and Tommy was resurrected in the form of a Pumpkinhead. Soon Tommy committed a series of brutal murders including Judge Dixon’s friends who were involved in Tommy’s murder.
Jenny’s father, Sean, investigated the murders and arrived at the conclusion that led to Tommy being responsible for the murders. Even Ms. Osie, before death, revealed the clues and secrets to Sean and gave him a locket that might save someone from the Pumpkinhead. Thus Sean discovered the truth about Tommy turning into Pumpkinhead and the victims being killed, realizing that the next victim was supposed to be Judge Dixon.
Judge Dixon gathered a gang to assist him in finding and assassinating the creature which was responsible for the grisly murders of his friends, but before the gang could even arrive, the Pumpkinhead killed Judge Dixon brutally. After Tommy avenged his own murder, he turned his attention towards Danny and his friends as they didn’t offer any help to Ms. Osie and escaped.
So they became Tommy’s targeted victims. Sean and the Town doctor desperately started looking for Jenny and her friends and reached the woods. In the meantime, Pumpkinhead had already murdered Danny and three of his friends, and his next target was Jenny.
Tommy chased Jenny to the iron mine, the same place where he had been chased 35 years ago. However, Tommy considered that Sean had been a friend in their childhood and Jenny was actually innocent of hurting Ms. Osie, so he let Jenny go, allowing her to reach her father safely. But the gang arranged by Judge Dixon reached the site and shot Tommy back into the mine, the same place he had died 35 years ago.
Pumpkinhead 2: Blood wings by Jeff Burr might not be as legendary as its prequel, but the film definitely had its moments. Here unlike its prequel, the Pumpkinhead was not summoned for vengeance, but the teens meddling with black magic resurrected Tommy, who was murdered years ago. Greg Nicotero, Bob Kurtzman, and Howard Berger did a commendable job by making this savage monster look extremely grisly.
There had been some special effects which were worth watching. The plot was quite interesting and had a lot of potentials, but unfortunately, it was not executed perfectly. Andrew Robinson featuring as Sheriff Sean Braddock, did the best job while the remaining cast managed to pull the film along. The monster in this movie was apparently far more aggressive than the Pumpkinhead in the previous movie and assassinated the victims more fiercely. Considering the movie’s low budget, it definitely offered quite a thrill and suspense for the horror fans.
Pumpkinhead 3: Ashes to Ashes – Released in 2006
Bunt Wallace, the character from the original Pumpkinhead story who had helped the victims from the Pumpkinhead, was suffering from a nightmare, where some unknown creature chased him through the woods. When Bunt fell into a pit full of mud and skeletons, the creature was shown as none other than the Pumpkinhead, who marked his forehead with an ‘X’ sign with its claws.
Bunt was awakened by Doc Fraser, a local mortician under whom Bunt worked. Doc was revealed as a cruel, heartless person responsible for kidnapping and killing local people to steal their organs and hiding the dead bodies in the swamp. While Bunt was hiding the body, he encountered the ghost of Ed Harley.
One day, while Doc was removing organs from a body, a stranger chanced upon Wallace’s house and witnessed the incident along with Dalmiya and Junior Wallace, Bunt’s siblings. Doc’s men immediately captured him and removed his kidney while Bunt dumped his body in the swamp. But this stranger was still alive and while he tried to escape he landed and fainted in front of a car. A lady named Molly got out of the car and tried to help the stranger when he narrated everything he had seen in the Wallace residence. Molly took the stranger to the police station and recounted the stranger’s experience to the sheriff.
While the stranger succumbed to his injuries, Molly and the sheriff reached Wallace’s house and arrested Bunt, Daliya, and Junior while the main culprit, Doc, remained untouched.
Meanwhile, the police started digging up all the dead bodies in the local area which had been dumped by Bunt and his gang.
While searching for dead bodies, an officer reached the spot where the body of Pumpkinhead was buried and accidentally dug up its body, considering it a normal corpse, and kept it with the other bodies. In the meantime, the officers brought another child’s corpse, which unfortunately was Molly’s long-lost child. While Molly was devastated with the death of her child, on the other hand, the witch appeared at the place and took the Pumpkinhead’s corpse stating to the officers that it didn’t belong there. Eventually, Molly visited the witch and requested her to resurrect her child, but the witch refused, stating that she was unable to bring life to the dead.
Later Molly visited some of her friends whose parents had also been murdered by the organ dealers and asked them to approach the witch for revenge.
Thus Molly, Richie, Allie, and Ronnie went to the witch for vengeance, and the witch uttered the same sentences as the first movie that vengeance would come at a terrible price. But the four friends were desperate for revenge, and so the witch collected their blood and poured it on the dead body of the Pumpkinhead. Immediately Pumpkinhead was alive while the four friends fainted. The monster reached the police station where Bunt, Daliya, and Junior were imprisoned and instantly slaughtered Junior. The four friends experienced the ghastly murder as they had been indirectly connected to the Pumpkinhead. Bunt and Daliya somehow managed to escape and reached Doc’s house, explaining to him everything about the Pumpkinhead. The Pumpkinhead reached Doc’s house and killed one of his men.
While the friends were experiencing the murder, Oliver saw them and reported everything to Doc about the four friends and their connection to the witch.
Doc and his gang hid somewhere under a church, and Doc asked Bunt about the ways this monster could be stopped as Bunt was already experienced with Pumpkinhead. Bunt narrated his past incidents stating the fact that he was alive only because Ed Harley, who had summoned the monster, was killed hence killing the monster. Doc eventually was invited to a ceremony held in the church in memory of the murdered victims. Suddenly Pumpkinhead appeared at the ceremony and started brutal murders of anyone crossing his way. The church was engulfed in flames, and consequently, Ronnie died there while the Pumpkinhead, connected to Ronnie, became unconscious.
But, Doc and Daliya saw the Pumpkinhead burning in the church, but Bunt conveyed that the monster would not die easily. But as Doc became aware of the fact that Pumpkinhead can be stopped by killing the hosts, he made a plan to murder the four friends who had summoned the devil. Allie and Oliver requested the witch to stop the demon, but the witch, as before, stated that the Pumpkinhead would not stop unless its vengeance was totally achieved. Doc, meanwhile, had planned to murder Richie by injecting him with poison.
The Pumpkinhead was trying to attack the Doc when he killed Richie with a poisonous injection while the Pumpkinhead connected to him fainted too. The Doc’s next target was Molly, and while the Pumpkinhead again tried to attack Doc, he shot Molly, rendering the monster unconscious, and approached the final host, Allie.
Meanwhile, Bunt truly repented his actions and started putting the dead bodies in the burning machine with Allie and Oliver while he chanted “Ashes to ashes,” praying for the souls to rest in peace. Doc reached the place and tried to shoot Allie, but Bunt intervened and somehow saved Allie. The Pumpkinhead reached and this time succeeded in killing Doc and then grabbed Dunt and Oliver, but Allie sacrificed her life in the burning machine to kill the monster and save her two friends. Finally, the witch carried the dead body of the Pumpkinhead and buried it where it belonged.
Pumpkinhead 3: Ashes to ashes should actually be considered as the direct sequel of the 1988 Pumpkinhead classic, as all the characters and places from the first film are included in the story, while Pumpkinhead 2 indeed had no continuity from the first film. Director Jake West managed to provide the horror fans a decent entertainment within a low budget.
The film released in 2006 is definitely better than its apparent prequel, but it is not of the same standard as the first film. The fantastic performance of Doug Roberts is worth mentioning and is responsible for holding the movie together.
The monster of this film looks different from the first Pumpkinhead, but it is consistent with the mythology as the person who summons the Pumpkinhead becomes the next Pumpkinhead. So the monster of this movie is created from the mortal remains of Ed Harley. Some of the film’s special effects are good, but the quality of CGI is not commendable. With proper editing and visual effects, this Jake West film would have received more positive feedback from the critics than it actually did.
Pumpkinhead 4: Blood Feud – Released in 2007
The movie commenced with a pair of bikers driving away from the fierce Pumpkinhead. One of the men hit a tree branch and fell from the motorcycle as the monster grabbed him, and as he was being killed, another man in a log cabin was seen experiencing the murder by the demon. The other biker, Dallas, ran to the log cabin and begged the person who summoned Pumpkinhead to stop it, but the monster smashed through the window while Dallas tried to shoot the monster with a tiny pistol. When Dallas realized that the bullets of the pistol had no effect on the Pumpkinhead, he decided to kill the summoner and shot him, while the Pumpkinhead also vanished. Ed Harley’s spirit appeared and warned Dallas that Pumpkinhead would be back and there would be nowhere to hide.
After five years, the movie focused on an ongoing marriage ceremony of the McCoys where the Hatfields created a ruckus and vandalized the event showing the permanent feud between the two families. Jodie Hatfield, the youngest member of the family, was quite fed up with the constant hostility and often protested the wrongdoings of her naughty brothers.
Jodie’s father explained the backstory of the perpetual feud stating that the McCoys owned a motorcar that ran over Jodie’s uncle, hence paralyzing him for a lifetime. The McCoys were supposed to give the car to the Hatfields for amends, but they never handed over the money the Hatfield owed, hence starting the feud. The main problem was that Jodie was in love with Ricky McCoy, who was also tired of the ongoing enmity between the two families, though they were both aware that their families would highly disapprove of their affair.
The only persons who approved their affair were Jodie’s uncle and Ricky’s sister Sarah. Sarah accompanied her brother and kept a watch while the two lovers made out in the forest. The Hatfield brothers happened to confront Sarah in the woods and attack her. While fleeing for her life, Sarah tumbled down, cracked her head against a tree, and eventually succumbed to her fatal injury.
The brothers then forced Jodie away from Ricky while tying him to the back of their truck and dragging him along the way to kill him. But Ricky was alive, and he also found the dead body of Sarah in the forest and carried her to the witch’s hut, begging her to bring Sarah back to life. But as usual, the witch Haggis replied that she was unable to bring back life in a dead body. Here she is pestered by Ed Herald.
Meanwhile, Jodie faced serious consequences for her affair with Ricky and was severely warned by her father to never meet him again, while Ricky requested the witch to summon the Pumpkinhead and avenge all the family members of the Hatfields except Jodie. The witch once again warned the summoner that vengeance would come at a great price, costing his soul, but Ricky was determined to avenge his sister’s death at any cost.
Meanwhile, the ghost of Ed Harley appeared in Jodie’s room and gave her a hint of the terrible future that awaits them. In the morning, Jodie had a short debate with the local kids about the reality of the Pumpkinhead, which she thought didn’t exist. But the kids narrated the story of Ed Harley and his summoning of the Pumpkinhead.
Witch Haggis summoned the Pumpkinhead, which became alive and didn’t take long to hunt down the Hatfield brothers, ripping them off while Ricky was not only experiencing the murder but rather seemed to enjoy the brutality. Meanwhile, the monster continued its series of brutal murders, killing more Hatfield members one by one while everyone started noticing the strange behavior of Ricky.
Jodie, in the meantime, managed to reach the witch’s hut and confronted the Pumpkinhead there in broad daylight. But the witch consoled Jodie saying that it would not hurt her as it had been summoned only to hurt her family, but Jodie wanted to know how to stop the monster when Ed Harley appeared and told her that she had to do the hardest thing to stop the demon.
Meanwhile, the Hatfields were convinced that the McCoys were responsible for the mass killings of their family and attacked them, setting their house ablaze, leading to a massive fistfight between the two families. Suddenly they realized that Ricky’s mother was stranded in the fire, and Jodie was compassionate enough to rescue her. This soulful act of Jodie made the McCoys return the money they owed, thus ending the years of hostility between them.
Both the families got together with the sheriff to discuss the ongoing mass murders when Sheriff Dallas explained his experience with the Pumpkinhead stating that the summoner had to be killed to stop the monster. Soon Pumpkinhead arrived at the site and commenced its ghastly slaughters. Jodie was left with no alternative but to kill her lover Ricky to stop the Pumpkinhead as she was left wailing and heartbroken.
Apparently, Pumpkinhead 4: Blood feud was better than Pumpkinhead 3 as a film, but Pumpkinhead 3 emphasized well on the Pumpkinhead character. The movie was written and directed by Michael Hurst and released in 2007. The movie plot was consistent, but it appeared as though the Pumpkinhead was forcefully introduced into the movie. Ed Harley and Haggis’s presence maintained the continuity, but minute details were not incorporated in the film.
The film provided pretty good effects presenting special gory moments, and it also used the monster appropriately without much prominence as its prequels. The actors fared well, while it was good to see Lance Henriksen as Ed Harley and Lynne Verral as Haggis in most of the franchise. The movie has adequate horror flicks to reach a must-watch list for the horror fans while being the last of the Pumpkinhead franchise.
Demon of Vengeance: Pumpkinhead Explored
The Pumpkinhead, also known as the Demon of Vengeance, is the fictional character introduced in the 1988 horror film Pumpkinhead and its sequels. The creature was designed by Stan Winston and played by Tom Woodruff Jr and others in the original film, also known for portraying plenty of other monsters in films like Aliens. Mark McCracken played the role of the monster in the sequel but was not much appreciated, and so was Bob Gunter, responsible for portraying the monster in the last two sequels.
In the films, the demon can be summoned by anyone who seeks revenge against one or more persons who had caused the person to suffer terribly. Accordingly, the demon marks its targets and starts killing the targeted victims one by one brutally. No matter where the victims try to hide, there is no escape from the Pumpkinhead as it doesn’t stop unless all the victims are slaughtered.
As the marked victims die, the summoner will also feel the physical and emotional pain that the targets go through. This is the reason the witch always warned the summoners that vengeance would be achieved at a terrible price. It will cost their soul. Thus the only way to stop and kill the Pumpkinhead is to kill the conjurer.
The Pumpkinhead had always been associated with the older woman Haggis, whose motives were unknown. Only in the second sequel, the witch was called Ms. Osie, who might be different from Haggis and cared for the deformed child Tommy.
The Pumpkinhead must be unearthed by the witch or the summoner and needs the blood of one or more summoners along with magic spells from the witch to get invoked. More is the number of conjures in the ritual, the bigger and stronger the is demon.
This fact is noted mainly in the third film, where four friends had conjured the monster, but with the death of each friend, the Pumpkinhead became shorter and shorter until it reached its regular height. People trying to stop the Pumpkinhead will have their souls cursed with damnation. They will also be marked as victims by the monster and eventually be killed.
If there have been any survivors from the previous summoning, the demon will first slay them and then proceed with its new victims.
The name Pumpkinhead is derived from its large pumpkin-like head and the fact that it is buried in a pumpkin patch. It had pale, wrinkled skin with eyes that resembled that of reptiles with no iris. Instead of a nose, it only bore a pair of nostrils that follow the wrinkled design of the skin above the mouth. The monster was completely hairless with a mouth revealing a few sharp, pointed teeth endowing it with a ferocious appearance.
There were two bulbous projections on its shoulders, and similar projections were also seen sprouting from its elbows and legs. The Pumpkinhead was characterized by long arms with claws that were used as its primary weapon. The Pumpkinhead’s legs were long and muscular, having extra joints and tree-toed feet with thick claws.
The demon had a long tail that ended in a fin-like spike. Pumpkinhead 2 featured the monster with completely pale, bloodshot eyes and all sharp teeth. The last two sequels used different costumes for the Pumpkinhead, where the creature appeared smaller with human postures.
The skin of the creature was shown hazily, green in color, and the bulbous projections it had were replaced with sharp spikes. The fin-like spike on the monster’s tail was also changed to make it look like its spikes rendering a more devilish look to the monster.
The Pumpkinhead is the personification of its conjurer’s hatred, the desire for vengeance, and unforgiveness, making it even more deadly and unforgiving. It seems to enjoy the grisly murders it performs and sometimes allows its victim to escape only to heighten the fear in its target and its amusement. The monster is sadistic and prioritizes anguish and terror in the killings.
It can never be distracted from its task and will never kill random people unless they try to stop it, while it will only stop when its mission of revenge is over or if the summoner is killed. There is no effect of any conventional weapon on its body as it will instantly regenerate from its injuries. But on many occasions, we have seen that if the summoner gets hurt, the demon gets injured as well, while in the third sequel, it is noted that every time one of the four conjurers died, the Pumpkinhead became unconscious.
But very soon, it regains its trial to hunt its targeted victims. The monster is smart enough to fool its targets or smash the cars and bikes of the victims to stop them from escaping. The Pumpkinhead has tremendous strength with which he is capable of murdering the people so brutally.
The costume of the Pumpkinhead used in the first 1988 film was most likely burned and disposed off after the film, but the costume used in the sequels is for sale at a website called Prop Store, in case anyone is interested.
Creation of Pumpkindead by the Master of Special Effects: Stan Winston – Explored
The producers of the 1988 Pumpkinhead horror movie, De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, had sent the script of the movie to Stan Winston, requesting him to create the design of the Pumpkinhead monster. But Winston was so interested in the script for his film directing debut that he told the producers that he would design the creature only if he was allowed to direct the film. While Stanford focused on the script, the artists of his studio designed the humanoid monster with a large head, withered facial features, and long limbs with clawed fingers. With Stan’s enthusiasm and encouragement, the sculpture of the Pumpkinhead was created by the designers Allen Gills, Shane Mahan, John Rosenbrant, and Tom Woodruff Jr.
From the sculpture, the artists and mechanics of Stan Winston Studio created the suit and the head. Stan Winston Studio also provided additional Pumpkinhead suits for stunt sequences, and with Stan’s expertise, everything was completed within a very low budget. It is an amusing fact that ‘Fun’ was the mood prevailing in the set of the horror movie Pumpkinhead.
Winston set up a humorous and light-hearted spirit in the studio, as everyone in the studio enjoyed it wholeheartedly. Now when the artists look back to those days and realize that everything was accomplished within $3 dollars, they are still amazed, while Pumpkinhead remains an ideal example of an effective low-budget classic horror movie.
Pumpikhead Reboot: Future Prediction
Horror fans can expect more of Pumpkinhead in the future as in November 2019, Peter Block assured the fans that reboot of Pumpkinhead was still in the works and final news will be announced very soon, though it was too early to predict any release date.
Block and Nate Atkins had co-written the reboot script of Pumpkinhead reboot, and Block also declared that it would not be a straight-up remake of the previous film, but lots of ideas had been borrowed from the original plot. Block also planned to use practical effects to pay tribute to Stan Winston, but at the early stage, further details of the storyline or casting have not been announced, and further updates are still unavailable