Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud (2007)

When true love between two young lovers are threatens by their families violent feud, there only chance at peace leads them to summoning the monstrous pumpkin head, who brings even bigger horrors.

Director:

Michael Hurst (as Mike Hurst)

Writer:

Michael Hurst (as Mike Hurst)

Stars:

Bob Gunter, Amy Manson, Bradley Taylor

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Bob Gunter	...	Pumpkinhead
Amy Manson	...	Jodie Hatfield
Bradley Taylor	...	Ricky McCoy
Claire Lams	...	Dolly Hatfield
Rob Freeman	...	Sheriff Dallas Pope
Ovidiu Niculescu	...	Bobby Joe Hatfield
Peter Barnes	...	Papa McCoy
Lance Henriksen	...	Ed Harley
Elvin Dandel	...	Tristan McCoy
Richard Durden	...	Old Man Hatfield
Alin Constantinescu	...	Emmett Hatfield
Razvan Oprea	...	Brett Hatfield
Rudy Rosenfeld	...	Abner Hatfield
Lynne Verrall	...	Haggis
Calin Puia	...	Tommy Hatfield

Storyline

In a Virginia forest village, true love between Ricky McCoy and Jodie Hatfield is sabotaged by their families' long-standing bitter feud. Despite sheriff Dallas Pope's grim warning, actually from bitter experience, it will only eat up his sole, Ricky resorts to vengeance on all standing in his way by appealing to pumpkin-head, a magical forester monster, who unleashes ever greater horror.

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Plot Keywords:

love | forest | vengeance | sheriff | pumpkin head | 

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Taglines:

Vengeance Will Be His

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Genres:

Fantasy | Horror

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong horror violence and gore

Details

Country:

UK Romania USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

10 February 2007 (USA)

Also Known As:

Pumpkinhead IV: Love Hurts

Filming Locations:

Castel Film Studios, Bucharest, Romania

Company Credits

Production Co:

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Motion Picture Corporation of America (MPCA), Lost Junction Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

95 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

Follows Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes (2006)

User Reviews

Problematic but still the best of the three sequels

I enjoyed the original Pumpkinhead, but the three sequels are not as good. The best for me was this one, though Ashes to Ashes isn't bad either. Blood Wings was severely lacking for me. What I did like about Blood Feud was that it wasn't too bad visually. The effects are a little better than they were in Ashes to Ashes, the scenery is appropriately eerie as well as looking beautiful and the photography is thankfully not as frenzied. The music is haunting, what ties this movie with the original are used well and while the titular character doesn't show up for at least 40 minutes, while not having the impact he makes in the original, he is at least frightening. Lance Henrikssen is very good, he puts a lot of effort into the role and it shows. However, I was largely uninterested with what was going on until he showed up. The story of the Hatfields and McCoys is clichéd and often unbelievable, and is further hampered by plodding character exposition, and even then the characters felt under-written. The writing is rather trite and sometimes cheesy and most of the acting apart from Henrikssen is poor, sometimes even amateurish. All in all, the best of the three sequels but also could have been much better. 5/10 Bethany Cox