Review – Pumpkinhead

The title is a description of either the large-craniumed creature of evil summoned forth by revenge-bent hearts or those hapless souls foolish enough to pay for the privilege of watching this barker. Lance Henriksen stars as a hillbilly driven mad with rage when city kids accidentally squash his cute son in a motorcycle accident. After chewing his way through a big wad of rustic scenery, he enlists the aid of an old witch-woman (named – and I swear I’m not making this up – Haggis) who knows how to conjure Pumpkinhead, an avenging demon, to punish his boy’s killers. Though the demon itself is occasionally eerie and some of the folklore aspects of the tale are mildly interesting, for the most part this is yet another run-of-the-mill teenagers-pursued-by-the-boogeyman picture. See if desperate