Pumpkinhead is a 1988 American horror film. It was the directorial debut of special effects artist Stan Winston. The movie was inspired by a poem written by Edi De Laurentiis. It is the first of two sequels to the film, the second being Pumpkinhead 3. The third sequel is Pumpkinhead 4, which is set in a different time period.
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Pumpkinhead is a 1988 American horror film. It was the directorial debut of special effects artist Stan Winston. The film has built up a cult following in the years since its release. The first in the Pumpkinhead franchise, it was followed by a direct-to-video sequel, two TV film sequels, and a comic book series. In the present, Ed Harley is a widowed father and owns a small store in the country. In 1957, Tom Harley waits inside his farm cabin with his wife and young son, Ed. A doomed man seeks sanctuary at Tom’s cabin, but Tom refuses and threatens to shoot him if he does not leave. Ed goes to an old graveyard in the mountains, digs up a corpse, and brings it back to the witch’s home. The witch uses blood from father and son to resurrect the corpse, which rises as a gigantic, spindly demonic monster named Pumpkinhead. Ed notices that Pumpkinhead’s head is turning more human, then realizes that he and Pumpkinhead are one: the only way to kill the monster is to die himself.
Later that night, the witch buries Ed in Ed’s grave, still wearing the necklace he made his son Billy, ready for vengeance and still ready for the next person seeking vengeance. The movie was inspired by a poem written by Edi De Laurentiis, and was made by The De Laurentis Entertainment Group, which also produced the TV film and TV series Pumpkinhead and The Pumpkinhead Movie, both of which were directed by Stan Winston, and released in 1988 and 1989. The sequel, Pumpkinhead 2, was released in 1989. It is the first of two sequels to the film, the second being Pumpkinhead 3, which was released the following year. The third sequel is Pumpkinhead 4, which is set in a different time period and is released in 2010. The fourth sequel, pumpkinhead 5, is due to be released in 2015. The fifth sequel, pumpkinhead 6, is scheduled for release in 2016. The last sequel, Pumpkinhead 7, is expected to come out in 2018.
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