Pumpkinhead (1989)

Dir: Stan Winston

Starring: Lance Henriksen

More Info: IMDB

Tagline: Cruel, devious, pure as venom. All hell's broken loose.

Plot: A man conjures up a gigantic vengeance demon called Pumpkinhead to destroy the teenagers who accidentally killed his son.





My Rating: 6/10
Would I watch it again? Nope.

Lance Henriksen was really the only reason I wanted to see this. He's usually great and is in this except when he gets REALLY upset and tries to maintain some Southern accent and it just doesn't work. Other than that he's tops and loads of fun. The setup & premise were good as were the kills by Pumpkinhead. He's a gas.



One kill has Pumpkinhead 30 feet up in a tree with some chick and then he drops her onto a large rock in front of her friends. Cool! The blue light show you get everytime Pumpkinhead shows up gives you the idea that he works for the Pink Floyd concert tour; lights flashing all over the place looking oh so cool.

Overall it's a decent, better-than-average, horror flick with GREAT special effects (no surprise since the director has been a top SP FX guy in his field for many years) and fun kills but it seems to go on much too long. With a good beginning and ending the middle could have been trimmed of some fat to tighten it up. I'm glad I finally saw it so now I can move onto something else.