Sunday, October 31, 2021

31 Nights of Halloween: Pumpkin Man

The Halloween celebration continues here, until just before Midnight and the beginning of the Day of the Dead! Here's another tale of a Halloween run-in with the supernatural!


Pumpkin Man (2021)
Starring: Brooklyn Robinson, Milla Kessler, and Noelani Pese
Director: Alex Magana
Rating: Seven of Ten Stars

Three friends (Kessler, Pese and Robinson) out committing some Halloween pranks and vandalism come to learn the truth about the legend of the Pumpkin Man.

the Pumpkin Man Cometh

Have you heard the urban legend of the Pumpkin Man? Well, don't worry if you haven't, dear reader, because filmmaker Alex Magana and his talented cast of teenaged actors are going to tell you all about it... and make you a believer!

"Pumpkin Man" is another fun trip into terror from the guy who brought us "Don't Fall Asleep", and several other shorts. Like so many of his films, this one starts in the middle of action and ends where the main story beats are sort-of resolved, but great mysteries and unanswered questions are still looming. If you've liked Magana's other films, I think you'll like this one, too.

You might really like it if you, like me, get angry at Halloween vandalism that damages the carved pumpkins and other Halloween decorations that people put work into so that the rest of us can be entertained. I always hope that Karma will get those vandals... so I rather wish that the legend of the Pumpkin Man was real....

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