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[[File:PumpkinheadDVDCover_8476.png|frame|Eh, maybe a little pumpkin-like.]]
 
 
{{quote|"''Keep away from Pumpkinhead,
''Unless you're tired of living,
''His enemies are mostly dead,
''He's mean and unforgiving,
''Laugh at him and you're undone,
''But in some dreadful fashion,
''Vengeance, he considers fun,
''And plans it with a passion,
''Time will not erase or blot,
''A plot that he has brewing,
''It's when you think that he's forgot,
''He'll conjure your undoing,
''Bolted doors and windows barred,
''Guard dogs prowling in the yard,
''Won't protect you in your bed,
''Nothing will, from Pumpkinhead.''" }}
 
''[[Pumpkinhead]]'' was special effects guru [[Stan Winston]]'s directorial debut and essentially deals with a monster that doesn't actually have a pumpkin for a head. The quote above is said to be by Ed Justin and the inspiration for this movie making it possibly the only movie Based On A True Poem. However since nobody has ever heard of anything else to do with this Ed Justin some people (by which we mean someone at [[The Other Wiki]]) wonder if he really exists, making this possibly [[Based on a Great Big Lie]] while not claiming to be based on any actual fact.
 
The plot is actually the fairly common "Man summons demon to seek revenge" horror plot. It has the common hallmarks: the [[Jerkass Victim|Jerkass Victims]] do reserve some revenge but he takes it too far (they did a hit-and-run on the guy's son), there is one guy who was actually trying to help the victim but is targetted for revenge anyway, the victims are a bunch of bland teens, cue [[My God, What Have I Done?]] and then [[Redemption Equals Death]].
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* [[Man On Fire]]: The death of the priest (batted on to a table full of candles by Pumpkinhead) in ''Ashes and Dust'', and how one of the Hatfields dies (firing his old shotgun while soaked in moonshine) in ''Blood Feud''.
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: Due to seeing and feeling Pumpkinhead's murders, the summoners often ultimately end up with this reaction by the end. So far, the only exception has been Molly Sue from ''Ashes to Ashes'', who tried to skip town while Pumpkinhead did his thing, outright stating she didn't care what happened when confronted.
* [[Mythology Gag]]: Watch the movie, look ''closely'' at Pumpkinhead, and you'll see a striking physical resemblance to a more-famous monster from [[Aliens| a certain film]] that Stan Winston helped work on two years earlier.
* [[Nonhumans Lack Attributes]]: There have been male and female Pumpkinheads. You'd never know.
** Averted on one action figure, which did have a sculpted flaccid penis and scrotum
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