Horror october #11
Oct. 11th, 2017 09:27 pmPumpkinhead was recommended to me by ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
killerweasel and I'm really grateful. They don't make 'em like this anymore. Based on the title and the opening scene I was expecting something a lot trashier, and if it'd been made in the early 80s instead of 1988 it might have been, but of course by now both Stan Winston and Lance Henriksen were fresh off The Terminator and Aliens (and Near Dark in Henriksen's case) and it shows. This movie may look kinda shlocky at first, but it means business when it takes the ol' obnoxious college kids vs vengeful rednecks plot to a place it doesn't usually go.
OK, so maybe creaturemaster Winston is a bit too fond of showing off his monster, and maybe most of the college kids don't get nearly the same character depth that Henriksen's character does, but this is still a very watchable movie from that brief period in the late 80s where horror was sort of trying to put on some muscles again before the 90s came along and, well, we know what happened then. Pumpkinhead. Salutations.
killerweasel and I'm really grateful. They don't make 'em like this anymore. Based on the title and the opening scene I was expecting something a lot trashier, and if it'd been made in the early 80s instead of 1988 it might have been, but of course by now both Stan Winston and Lance Henriksen were fresh off The Terminator and Aliens (and Near Dark in Henriksen's case) and it shows. This movie may look kinda shlocky at first, but it means business when it takes the ol' obnoxious college kids vs vengeful rednecks plot to a place it doesn't usually go.OK, so maybe creaturemaster Winston is a bit too fond of showing off his monster, and maybe most of the college kids don't get nearly the same character depth that Henriksen's character does, but this is still a very watchable movie from that brief period in the late 80s where horror was sort of trying to put on some muscles again before the 90s came along and, well, we know what happened then. Pumpkinhead. Salutations.
