Review - Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud

Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud left me feeling a bit confused . . .

. . . the time line seemed to be a bit off to me. I mean the Hatfields and the McCoys?

I suppose it may have been an attempt to demonstrate that hatred between families is bad and all but I just found it distracting. Maybe Pumpkinhead should go back and settle the score between the Capulets and the Montagues . . .

But I digress. This film was full of guts and gore which was a mark in the plus category for me, but as for the story - eh I wasn't all that impressed. In reality though how much can you do with a fourth installment in a franchise that doesn't really have that many avenues to go down. It's a classic tale of revenge and how it eats a person up inside. So here's my advice kiddies - let it go . . . there's a lot to be said for Zen.

As for the return of Ed Harley (Lance Henricksen) from the original Pumpkinhead, I found that to be a bit odd because it seems to me that this story happened before Harley's time although everyone in the film kept commenting how this was all started by Ed Harley. My time line issue may have had something to do with the whole Hatfield/McCoy thing - see told you it was distracting to me. Must've been all those cartoons I watched as a kid. Oddly enough Old Man Hatfield (Richard Durden) reminded me a lot of all of those cartoon caricatures of the Hatfield patriarch.

There was also a back story of Sherif Dallas Pope (Rob Freeman) and his dealings with Pumpkinhead five years earlier. Seems he wronged some poor slob who called Pumpkinhead on him - hence his overflowing knowledge on the Pumpkinhead phenomena and how to stop it.

So in conclusion, I have to remind myself that this was a SciFi Original then I leave feeling pretty okay about the film. As SciFi Originals go, this wasn't half bad. Fair amount of cheese, typically SciFi Original bad acting and just slightly less than horrible writing add up to make Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud a "watch if you've nothing better to do" movie.

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Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud Movie Cast and Credits

Directed by
Michael Hurst

Writing credit
(in alphabetical order)
Michael Hurst

Cast (in credits order)
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
Elias Ferkin ... Billy Bob Hatfield
Iulia Boros ... Mama McCoy
Maria Roman ... Sara McCoy
Bart Sidles ... Andy Mills
Alexandru Geoana ... Town Boy #1
Cristi Feter ... Johnson
Fanel Ursu ... Johnny Pope
Aurel Boata ... Charlie Hatfield
Daniel Tomescu ... Dale Hatfield
Dicu Marian ... Wayne Hatfield (as Marian Dicu)
Ion Carangea ... Jimmy Langford (as Ion Caragea)
Florin Barcun ... Danny Hatfield
Adrian Pavlovschi ... Hatfield Boy #1
Daniel Pasleaga ... Hatfield Boy #2
Mihai Ionita ... McCoy Boy #1
Vasilescu Valentin ... McCoy Boy #2 (as Valentin Vasilescu)
Isabela Melinte ... Young McCoy Girl #1
Catalina Alexandru ... Young McCoy Girl #2
Stephen Dryer ... Band Member

rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Roxana Andronescu ... Bride

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