Pumpkins

I recently viewed Pumpkins (2018), a United Kingdom film available on Tubi. The story revolves around a farmer who undergoes a transformation into a vengeful figure after a prank gone wrong, targeting those responsible. When a group of survivalists mistakenly camp on the wrong farm, they face an unexpected and sinister encounter.

Directed by Maria Lee Metheringham (A Vault of Victims), the cast includes Dani Thompson (Christmas Slay), Craig Edwards (The House of Screaming Death), Maria Lee Metheringham (Control) and James Bayes (World on Fire).

Pumpkins is a classic, low-budget thriller that borrows elements from the Halloween and Pumpkinhead franchises, creating a somewhat chaotic blend. If the film had offered compelling kill sequences, it might have held more value. Unfortunately, it suffers from subpar acting, awkward background music, and a lack of noteworthy kill scenes. Some moments with the killer mimic obvious Michael Myers poses were also strange.

In summary, there are few redeeming qualities in this movie. I would give it a rating of 2.5/10 and strongly recommend considering other viewing options.

I normally love indie horror films or 'bad' movie's in general, however I feel like the movie ended abruptly . Like I still don't even know what happened in this movie. This was bad

This movie appears to have been written by a group of eight year olds attempting to make a scary movie, but can't agree on what should happen. One of them got his older brother to film it with mom's iphone, because he's a ninth grader. The writing is awful, the acting is comical, the props came from Party City, and the majority of what i can guess was about $200 budget was spent on the killer's mask and the beer they drank at the wrap party. They must have ran out of money after they filmed the pub scenes because the film just abruptly ends with no explanation of why the killer killed some people and left others to live. I laughed through most of the movie. I went into it not knowing anything about it and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. If you enjoy films that are trying to be serious but just come off as comedy this is perfect for you. Do not go into this film expecting to see the next great classic in the slasher genre.

To make a decent horror movie you don't actually need a decent budget. You need a decent script, you need decent actors and - more than anything else - you need a decent talent behind the camera who know how to utilise all the tricks of cinema to generate and maintain suspence, tension, mood, atmosphere and - above all - tension.

Pumpkins has none of these things.

What starts with a set-up that might have worked if played as a comedy but is instead played dead straight, proceeds to follow up the lack of jokes with a lack of anything you want from a horror movie. It doesn't even have a decent ending - it just ends with no sense of resolution or even a final confrontation. Another character gets killed off, many more still alive, we get a few shots of night time roads and then ... it ends. No idea what the heck that was supposed to be - the only thing I can guess at is that they were shooting it in order and then ran out of budget so just stopped.

There isn't a single redeeming feature to this film. Utterly astonishing in quite how bad it is.

If you are looking for low budget horror, everyone involved has made better movies - search out their IMDb profiles and find something better there. Literally anything will do; this is the career low point of everyone involved.

Oh jeez, not another British horror. You got your mumblers, and you got your obscure slang.

Story goes like this: Old man loves his pumpkin patch. A couple hooligans like to trespass, throw rocks at him, and taunt him with songs (seems like there's a song for everything in this). Anyway, they come back and draw on his pumpkins, the old man keels over, and dumps growing agent into the ground. He re-emerges as some sort of a mutant pumpkin man, who proceeds to kill everyone in sight for the remainder of the movie.

Apparently he's got a lot of land, because he ventures pretty far out to kill trespassers, but then he goes to the pub for more killing, and in the stinger, he's about to kill a trick or treater, out at someone else's house! I think this plot is limited to "Mutant pumpkin man goes on killing spree."

Wow, does this movie have a non-ending. I'm assuming time and/or money factored. It just ENDS. I had to rewind to make sure I didn't miss something. A couple pumpkins roll into the yard? And that means? One kid is cleaning out a pumpkin, and it takes his fingers off. Yep. Killer pumpkins.

I'm not sure what planet they got this quote from, but the box says "Wild, Over the top, and Totally horrifying!" I can safely tell you, three things this movie is NOT, is (1) wild, (2) over the top, OR (3) totally horrifying.

I've boosted my score for pretty much one reason: Pub-maid Pam, played by Dani Thompson. She is one super fox... Who can't act. Her imdb profile photo is re-donk-u-lous. Oh, they do throw in a couple meta remarks. Yeah, I'm easy to please, though Pumpkins offers very, very little to the slasher genre.