Review, Pumpkin Head 2:

I went to Wal-mart and picked up some $5 movies since I needed to update my collection and one of the dvd's I bought was a 4 pack combo which included 4 horror movies. One of the horror movies it came with and the one that I watched tonight was Pumpkin Head 2. I haven't seen the first Pumpkin Head but the sequel was just outstanding. I actually loved this movie and it was really good. Anyone who is in need of a cheesy, happy horror movie then you need to check out Pumpkin Head, I swear this movie is a classic in the making. Pumpkin Head 2 starts in the year 1958 where it shows a deformed boy Tommy playing in the field by his house. The cool popular guys which I like to call them the douche bag squad show up to bully Tommy. They begin to beat him with a baseball bat and hook him up to a chain, the main douche bag starts slashing him with his knife. All while this is going on Tommy's mother (I think it's his mother) is collapsed on the ground moaning in pain, it looks as though she can feel the pain Tommy is going through. The end up killing Tommy then it switches to present day. A new family moves into town with their daughter Jenny and her dad as the town's sheriff. Jenny becomes friends with a group of kids who like to call themselves bad asses cause they drink, smoke and ditch school. Jenny starts dating Danny which doesn't make her dad happy with all the obvious reasons and he forbids her from ever hanging out with them. Later that night Jenny sneaks out of her house to meet up with them and they cruise down the road acting all crazy having a good time. Danny thought it would be fun to drive with his headlights off and ends up hitting a random old lady that was walking along the road. They jump out of the car yelling all freaked out and they come to find that the old lady is gone and she's no where to be found. Danny tries to convince them that they should leave cause she's most likely fine since she got up and walked away. Jenny wasn't having it since a hit and run is a big deal so they head down to her house cause Danny knows where she lives. They get to the old lady's house and they start searching through her house to see if they could find her. The come across some weird voodoo like spells and props and realizes that the vile of blood and the spell on the table is to bring the dead back to life. Danny decides to keep it and puts it in his pocket and the old lady shows up. Jenny informs her that they were just looking to see if she was alright and that they didn't see her out on the road and they were very sorry. They head out of the house but the old lady stops Danny and tells him to give her the vile of blood cause it's very dangerous. He doesn't want to give it back to her so he tries to get out of the house but she blocks him and tries to grab it out of his hand. Danny hits her over the head with his flash light and heads out the door.

Once they get out to the cemetery that's located in the old lady's yard they dig up a grave to perform the spell to bring back the dead. Oh my hell are you people really that stupid?! If you had a spell that could bring back the dead don't try to do it, even if you didn't believe in it don't try it cause you don't know what type of stuff your dealing with. Stupid idiots! After they perform the spell and nothing happens they leave the cemetery and find that the old lady's house is on fire. Jenny starts freaking out saying they need to go in and help her but they grab her and they head off to Danny's car. The next morning their all worried about what's going to happen cause they feel responsible for the fire. What they don't know that when the fire was spreading the old lady cries out "Feel the wrath of PUMPKIN HEAD!" during that night Pumpkin Head came back to life cause it looks like that spell actually worked. The local farmer walks into the sheriffs office telling him that he's back and he's here to seek revenge. The sheriff of course has no idea what he's talking about but the farmer tells him to ask the Mayor and the judge what's going on. That night Pumpkin Head returns to the farm and kills the Farmer. While he's killing the farmer it shows the old lady in the hospital having something on the line of a panic attack and she has them every time Pumpkin Head kills a person. Isn't she attached to monitors that let the nurses know that she's having a panic attack or if she's in stress? I guess they weren't plugged in. The next night it shows him going after a couple that just finished their nightly "bump in the night" shin dig and he kills the man and leaves the girl, which I don't know why cause I would of killed her too instead of letting her go. The Sheriff and the mortician try to figure out what's going on and who's causing all these murders. They stumble across the local legend of Pumpkin Head and the Sheriff starts to believe that HE'S causing the murders but it just doesn't seem possibly. Jenny and Danny and their friends are all freaking out since everyone in town is getting murdered but Danny in sits on everyone keeping their mouths shut. The murders keep on going and the Sheriff puts all the pieces together since everyone who got murdered is connected in a way which leads him back to the legend of Pumpkin Head and how he's really Tommy seeking revenge on the kids who killed him. The movie continues with Pumpkin Head killing everyone that was involved in his murder including Danny and his friends but letting Jenny survive since her dad saved his life once when they were kids. The local towns people ban together and kill Pumpkin Head while it shows flash backs of Tommy's death. This movie had some similarities of Friday The 13Th. Both Tommy and Jason were deformed and killed by the local kids who always picked on them. Tommy died in 1958, Jason died in 1959 and they both came back to seek revenge on the people who wronged them.

The moral of this story is that you should never pick on someone just because they look different then you cause it's not only mean and wrong but you never know if their going to turn out to be another Jason Voorhees. Why can't kids just get along and be friends, why do they have to be rude to one another and bully other kids around? Give peace a chance man. I give this movie 5 out of 5 Skulls