Good movie! Iβm enjoying catching up on old slashers I havenβt seen this Halloween season. Good night #Monsterdon, and thanks to @Taweret for hosting! Hereβs my foster kitten Bluebell, who joined me on the couch tonight.
"there's this long tailed reptilian alien demon that we all know about that can be summoned to murder a set of designated people. we call it pumpkinhead, it's sorta cute that way"
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the pumpkinhead displays a great deal of creative joy in its murders, rather than simply killing them and returning to the pumpkin platform, it hits the library, learning about the technological developments since its last summoning so that it can pull sweet jokes like removing the chain from a dirtbike when the moment calls for it #monsterdon
we're never gonna get creatures like this in movies again. just computer generated boring crap because its faster and cheaper
Is Pumpkinhead deliberately killing the least guilty ones first as extra punishment for the drunk biker and also Ed Harley?
#Monsterdon aaaand pumpkinhead fucks off into the graveyard
good night everybody <3
why does pumpkinhead make cicada sounds tho
Gonna tell you grandkids this is Pumpkinhead
#Monsterdon not an nra-approved way to use a gun
the pumpkin homonculus, the pumpunculus #monsterdon
If you put a dead child's glasses on them they reboot
So far this movie is a million more times like the Beef: It's What's for Dinnerβ’οΈ ads than any horror movie I've seen
Remember kids, denouement is for losers! If your character arc isn't wrapped up by killing a monster, it's not worth seeing! #Monsterdon
"we thought about having a denouement but then we remembered that we forgot to do any characterization the whole time" #monsterdon
A reckless teen helping the damned. A loving father caring for his son. Townfolk refusing to give the grieving dad the witch's location. Parents being honest with their kids about the danger. I mean... this is a positive portrayal of the locals. Not just a bunch of easy stereotypes. #Monsterdon
IS THAT the preacher from godmonster! of indian flats!?!?!?!@?!?!?!?!?!?!? #monsterdon
good guys are looking like
fingerless glovespants that end at the calfgum chewingbad guys are looking like
brown suitsmiling too muchhave their sunglasses come off in a fight
if we got joel and gypsy where the hell are tom and crow?
@arrjay #Monsterdon couldn't help myself
someone should really go and talk to that witch and nor let her just run a small assassination for gold business out of her bog #monsterdon
Lance Henriksen versus the tall spindly unstoppable monster with an elongated head
I feel like I've seen this before somewhere
@nev He's read Non-Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Disassembly #Monsterdon
#Monsterdon witch: "NO BACKSIES!"
"Daddy, I made you a present. It's gonna be significant in the third act, Daddy." #Monsterdon
So who else has been writing the poem this movie was "based on"
There once was a man named Ed Harley,
Who summoned a demon so snarly,
It killed some bad teens
And lit up the screen
While Ed was the one who turned gnarly
Is this the end of Pumpkinhead? The number of sequals would suggest no. Fun one. Thanks #monsterdon gang. If you're up for some made for tv terror #MondayActionMovie tomorrow at 8 P ET is featuring......Take care. See ya soon.
the father's grief is like a swap disk for the devil where the devil temporarily offloads some evil when the pumpkinhead is doing too much evil #monsterdon
It's from a Pink Floyd concert going on next hill over
Monsterdon: [chanting] Folk! Horror! Folk! Horror! Folk! Horror! Folk!! Horror!! Folk!! Horror!! Folk!! Horror!! FOLK HORROR!!! FOLK HORROR!!! FOLK HORROR!!!
@catzilla never touch children alive, injured or dead. they are likely cursed. #Monsterdon life tips
I'm not sure if this is a movie thing but do people *know* you're not supposed to move a person who's been hit by a car, and even if they look 100% dead to you, call 911 because they can be alive and you may be saving their life? So, like, DON'T BURY THEM IN A PET SEMATARY
what happened to fashion where we aren't all wearing these shits #monsterdon
This one definitely falls on the "good" side of movies, since my actual complaints are things like the time period. The hillbillies just being the local folk and not evil is nice, though.
I canβt believe my best #Monsterdon post EVER only got one like.
No I ainβt telling you which one.
Damn hippies.
is the moral of the story that if you accidentally kill someone to stick around and finish the job when the dad gets back? or what #monsterdon
the pumpkinhead welded a small iron plate to the camshaft of your dirtbike so it would sound all scrapy and scary when you started it up #monsterdon
I don't know y'all but I'm enjoying this more than I expected. It's very typical 80s horror, all the tropes and all, but the mood and the vibes hit just right #monsterdon #PumpkinHead1988
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Throwing
I tried #PumpkinHead once and got a seed stuck in my urethra
What happened to the church that only some of the studs and some lathe survived? I feel like nobody spent any time researching the failure modes of wooden structures built between 1900 and 1950. #monsterdon
Okay so hear me out....what if you just run, REALLY REALLY FAST
I mean it doesn't seem like it moves that quickly
no! he is the drifter in They Live! !!!!! that's where i recognize that voice from
Pumpkinhead leaves a message for the teens
his ass does not even have a pumpkin head #monsterdon
#Monsterdon "all i wanted to do was drink and drive with my friends! how did all this happen TO ME?"
#Monsterdon BADASS GOALS: dual-wielding meat clevers "Just in case God doesn't show."
#monsterdon She's an Artisan Crone. ;)
I've figured out where this movie is set: A 1980s Hollywood stereotype of Appalaichaorleansbama. #monsterdon
Many of us tonight would like to be an old person of the mountains the villagers are scared of but also respect
We're supposed to believe these city people are teenagers? Am I reading this right?
1988 was closer to 1957 (31 years) than we are now from 1988 (37 years) #PumpkinHead1988 #monsterdon
i'm not sure what's happening on the miru stream but i know immediately who is the good and bad guys by virtue of who is having the curly afro mullet and sunglasses #monsterdon
RE: https://mastodon.social/@ohiofi/115126588632559630
Disappointed that we didnβt get a close-up of Pumpkinheadβs nipples
A great Halloween classic! Thanks @Taweret and #Monsterdon for reminding me that demon-based vengeance is bad.
(Hollywood locust noise intensifies)
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And that's a wreck! Ed's ended life balances Pumpkinhead's murderous vengeance, as the careless killing of his son began it. Pumpkinhead's mortal form fucks off into the flames of hell while Ed takes his place in Pumpkinhead's own grave, poisonous vengeance awaiting exhumation. Ashes to ashes; dust to dust.
Thank you for hosting, @Taweret ! Thank you for the bingo card, @cherizilla !
This was a fun one. Good pick!
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Alright, so he fucked-off into the ground.
Thanks @Taweret for hosting, and to the whole #monsterdon gang for a fun ride through pumpkin land!
@jonny this entire movie has just been "so that happened" hasn't it
#Monsterdon hillbilly flamethrower. nice
#Monsterdon pumpkinhead understands modern machinery
#Monsterdon that is the ugliest pokΓ©mon i've ever seen
This reads like a campfire horror story
#monsterdon
I do like how the locals are just "yeah, there's this vengeance monster".
I think you probably need to let the authorities know your kid died and not just bury them yourself??????
A few of us watched The Frighteners earlier. That is a crazy great film that holds up perfectly to time. #monsterdon
We accidentally picked a good one again, didn't we
@nev Yeah, not a lot of emergency rooms in the Ozarkalachians
#Monsterdon this feels like going to talk to the voodoo lady in the secret of monkey island
#Monsterdon like most people in 1930s depression-era parts of the 1980s, he couldn't afford to take the boy to the doctor because he has no health insurance
#monsterdon Billy has gone to a farm upstate, to run and play with all the other dead children.
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dirt bikes better hit this kid not this doggo
@athena_rising I REALLY feel like they wanted this to be a period piece but couldn't afford it
I like how the creature effects is a team of people and not just one guy nobody ever hears of again like other Monsterdon fare
@Louisa Well, Pumpkinhead is mandated to go after the entire group. It's in his contract.
Haggis, you're too old for this shit. You need an assistant. #monsterdon
The moral of the story is that vengeance will make a demon of you, but at the same time I think there are many positives for summoning a vengeance demon on the right people.
for the 'greater good' you understand.
Hillbillies bury their dead monsters 6 feet *above* ground
hang on let me just impale myself on my pitchfork and abandon my entire plan #monsterdon
the pumpkinhead is clearly not affected by crosses, and even finds joy in using crosses in its arsenal of murder tools. the real tragedy of the movie is the human's inability to adapt their understanding of the monster beyond their natural reference frame of rural appalachian christianity and address its underlying needs, rather than condemning it to a hell to which it does not belong #monsterdon
Chekhovβs flame thrower (someone else called it earlier)
GWON GIT!
It turns out Pumpkinhead does not give a fuck about old churches
"Get off my land."
Finally some realistic Appalachian characters.
#monsterdon
Nice gun tropes played straight and subverted.
Like the Grizzly from Grizzly⦠and Yeti from Yeti Giant of the 20th Century⦠this Pumpkinhead fellow seems to change size frequently
Heβs having an βout of his gourdβ experience
#Monsterdon at least he's not burying the kid in pet semetary
Super into this orange witch ritual, all vibes #monsterdon #PumpkinHead1988
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ruh roh
@Taweret Maybe Lance knows that this way he won't get charged with murder?
obviously you should not under any circumstances dig into the pumpkin platform, even if you are aggrieved due to the loss of your son from the bandana dirtbike cityfolk #monsterdon
Things move a little slower down here in Pumpkinhead
[angry Bishop noises]
#monsterdon is there a wilhelm scream for dogs whining? If so do you think dogs watching these films are like "Oh it's that guy again, _great_"