This film is so atmospheric, and I loved how it’s an urban legend horror movie that is largely about grief and loss, and the futility of getting revenge. Lance Henriksen gives a great performance as an angry father whose son was killed in a hit and run by out of town teens, and calls upon a monster called Pumpkinhead to exact revenge, as an extension of his grief and anger. But even all the bloody killings doesn’t ease him, it only gives him more physical pain, as a metaphor for his grief killing him inside.
It’s a stunning film directed by special effects legend Stan Winston, with a truly imposing monster creation, and it really stuck out as a unique and eerie horror film that truly affected me.
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