Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings Movie Review
The movie starts in 1958, where we see a deformed boy named Tommy, the son of the famed legend Pumpkinhead, killed by a group of teens. We fast-forward to modern day (the early 1990's in this case) and Pumpkinhead has returned for revenge. This straight-to-video followup to 1988's Pumpkinhead kind of strays away from the story we know and builds its own story--more baffling, it seems to ignore its own story near the end, leaving a convoluted mess. Pumpkinhead himself looks different (there may be a reason for that), but is still impressive.
But is it Pumpkinhead?
Lance Henriksen, the star of the original film, doesn't return here--our lead in this one is Andrew Robinson (Hellraiser) as Sean Braddock, and my goodness, is he ever awful. If you ever hear the term "overacting" and wonder what that means, check out Robinson's performance in this movie. Aside from Robinson, there are a few other performers we recognize in this movie--Soleil Moon Frye (Punky Brewster) has a supporting role, Kane Hodder (Friday the 13th movies) and Linnea Quigley (Night of the Demons) both have brief appearances, Ami Dolenz (Ticks, Ferris Bueller, a TV show based on Ferris Bueller's Day Off that I, somehow, remember fairly vividly) plays Sean's daughter Jenny, and J. Trevor Edmond (Return of the Living Dead 3) plays Danny, Jenny's boyfriend.
Our cool couple
This movie was shot in just 3 weeks, and it shows, as the entire feel of the film is very rushed. Edmond and Dolenz, who, incidentally, is the daughter of the drummer and singer for The Monkees, Micky Dolenz (Halloween), both turn in decent performances considering how one-dimensional their character are. The movie just sort of plods along, made interesting by the occasional Pumpkinhead appearance, until the very end. It is here that we find out Pumpkinhead IS Tommy, even though it is already established Tommy was Pumpkinhead's son--I have no explanation for this other than to assume we never actually saw Pumpkinhead at all in this movie, and there are now two of them out there (I know how the original film ends, but did anybody believe he was actually killed?). Pumpkinhead II isn't a terrible movie, but it certainly falls well short of the original.
On A Scale Of One To Ten: 5
Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings Movie Trailer
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