A bunch of townsfolk are
killed and left for dead as a madman
working in a mortuary named Doc Fraser
(Doug Bradley) seems to do experiments on
the corspes and then throwing them in the
swamp.
This enrages the loves one's especially a
mother of a child named Molly Sue Allen
(Tess Panzer) and meets up with a
backwoods witch named Haggis (Lynne
Verrell) to help her as she brings two
other townsfolks named Ellie Johnson
(Iolana Ginghina) and a man who was
nearly left for dead in a swamp named
Richie (Radu Iacobian) in which Haggis
uses their blood to summon up a corpse
that becomes Pumpkinhead to seek revenge
on Doc but this creature seems to kill
anyone in it's path and the three of them
feel it's anger and pain.
They must find a way to stop it but each
time when one of the three is murdered
Pumpkinhead ends in pain and Ed Harley
(Lance Henricksen) haunts a superstitous
local named Bunt Wallace (Douglas
Roberts) about his fate since him and his
wife named Dehliah (Lisa McAllister) are
helping Doc with his evil deeds but feel
that they have no choice but to continue
on.
Some good chasing scene's around
the forest along with some skeletal
bodies near a swampy area.
There's a good shot on someone running away and hiding in
some hay at a barn with Doc Fraser and others looking around and then
stabbing at him with a pitchfork with
looked impressively done imagining a
bully wanting to hurt you to death.
A good camera shot looking down
on Doc pulling out a
liver from this person acting like a
mad scientist which will make you cringe
for sure.
We spot a good shot on Richie crawling out of a swamp and
then running in the middle of the raod
and stopping a vehicle with many good
camera takes on this.
A good close up shot on Molly Sue Allen kneeling down and crying
after spotting her child's corpse as well
as many good shots on dead corpses being
dragged side by side with other corpses.
We spot a good conversation sequence with Molly Sue Allen trying to find some information out of Haggis and acting
cold about it all.
There's good shots on all Molly Sue, Ellie Johnson and Richie walking to the Haggis swamp house with a
good shot on her rocking in
her chair near a fireplace as well as
showing a shot on Molly Sue kneeling down
near her and this witch grabbing
her wrist.
There's many good close up shots on the
three having the sides of their fingers
slit with blood being put in a cup.
We spot a good cheesy shot on Tiny Wallace lying as a corpse and awakening from the
blood spilt on him and turning into
Pumpkinhead with the three tripping out
and being knocked unconcious. Alot of
these moments looked like a remake on
the original but was done a bit cheesier
and not as dark looking either.
We spot many good creepy conversations
between Ed Harley haunting Bunt Wallace with him getting
spooked.
There's a good discussion with Bunt towards Dehliah Wallace in a
jail cell talking about Pumkinhead's
vengeance as well as a cheesy shot on a
door breaking down and the Pumpkinhead
figure approaching with a shot on a deputy trying
to shoot this beast as well as both Dehliah and Bunt freaking out and
trying to get out of the jail cell in
which the moments looked slightly corny
during this moment.
There's a good moment with Dehliah freaking out towards Doc about Pumpkinhead returning and him getting sleazy towards her trying to
comfort her which looked
well done.
A good discussion between Bunt and Doc talking about what
happened in the first film with the
situation they're encountering with
Pumpkinhead right now with a shot on Ed standing a distance behind Doc on what Bunt was saying.
Nice shot on Tiny Wallace climbing
up a tower along with the Pumpkinhead
figure about to attack.
We spot a cheesy moment with a reverend preaching and then Pumpkinhead
figure crashing from one of the windows
and wreacking havoc. It just didn't seem
to work.
We have many good camera takes on Bunt trying to remove a corpse from the
steeple on top of a roof without trying
to fall.
A nice wicked manipulative
attitude with Doc towards Bunt and Dehliah about
him leading them to safety with them
acting like basket cases as it looked
believeably dysfuntional.
There's a nice moment with Oliver Allen getting demanding towards Haggis about what is all happening which was
energetically done.
There's a good moment with the Pumpkinhead
figure attacking Ronnie Johnson with Dehliah laughing away making
this scene look truly twisted.
Nice moment with Doc putting poison in a needle and then being
forceful with Richie by
putting a needle in him along with a good
shot of the Pumpkinhead figure crashing
through a wall.
A good moment with Molly Sue looking
possessed and pointing a gun at Doc and suddenly acting like she's
suffocating.
Bottom line is that this is a sequel that took
place right after the first flick with
many cheesy moment but it was well done
too. Since watching this one the previous
sequel was just a story of it's own. We
see the character Ed Harley as a ghost
which was very necessary and Haggis the
witch returns too but however the scene's
weren't as dark looking like in the first
film due to a lower budget and the CGI
effects were a wee bit off but this seems
to be common with sequels during the
millenium to cult classics which happened
nearly two decades beforehand.
Alot of the scene's looked like a remake
from the first flick but at the same time
I thought it was neat and a tribute to
the first flick since the makers wanted
this one to be perfectly clear it is a
sequel to the first one. We spot some
good flashback sequences to the first
flick too to top it all off.
For all you fans of the first one you may
get a kick out of seeing this one but
again you may think to youself I've seen
this before in the first flick since
there's not many new twists in this one.
Call me corny but I still dug it.
The acting is
fairly descent as lead actor Doug
Bradley (Doc Fraser) proved he can wear many
other hats than his demonic Pinhead
character and instead plays an evil mad
scientist of some sort. He was very good
with his evil words. He was the kind of
fellow you wouldn't want to deal with and
made that very clear with his
performance.
Douglas Roberts (Bunt Wallace) does well with his
paranoia on the Pumpkinhead legend as
well as really acting unnormal and
supersititous like. He had the right
goofy looks too to top it all off. This
guy was a true character actor
regardless.
Tess Panzer (Molly Sue Allen) showed good crying
emotions to her part as well as some nice
energy too but at times she seems to lack
in some spots like when she had to get
tough and it looked a bit stale.
Otherwise she stood out quite well for
her role.
Emanual Parvu (Oliver Allen) brought a nice deep
southerness to his role as a tough
looking hillbilly and showed good
aggressions too for when he needed to be
along with acting adventureous too.
It's great to see Lance Henricksen (Ed Harley) returning from the grave as a ghost this
time showing a nice ghostly presence with
his icy and cold speaking. He showed nice
dark expressions to his part and really
came across intimidating like too.
Supporting actor Catalin Paraschiv (Ronnie Johnson) was
a little too over the top as a drug
dealer and seemed overly goofy and too
comedic. I mean there's a time and place
for everything but he really wasn't too
convincing.
Lynne Verrell (Haggis) this time plays the
backwoods witch named Haggis and she does
come across evil and wicked looking and
her behavior was somewhat dark but she
doesn't outdo the original actress at
all.
A person is dissected with
skin being torn off him
A kidney is pulled out of a victim
A face is smashed near a jail cell with
blood gushing out
A man is impaled on a steeple of a church
Pumpkinhead's tail has stabbed a few
people and bloodily too
There's numerous
terrific score's for this film like the
deep violin music as well as the chanting
and some organ music too with the rusty
sound effects which all of this sounded
fantastic composed by Rob Lord who
can really go places with what he has to
offer. |
