We spend an obscene amount of time focusing on characters that are never interesting, and put there in front of us just to die, while Pumpkinhead is shown, but kept in the shadows to prevent the audience from noticing the sub-par special effects present for the wider shots of the beast. And just to pad the story long enough to fit the running time, our characters stop to explain what occurred in the first film. This gives the new audience a chance to relive a better film, it gives the writer a chance to pad the run time, and it gives those who know full well what the lore entails a chance to revel in its repetitiveness.

“Ashes to Ashes” is basically just a series of torturous sequences in which a town seeks revenge, then bitches when the revenge methods go through, then discover they can’t control the monster, and now has to stop it; this may seem like a well laced sub-plot as it was in the original, but here it's just arbitrary conflict to stretch the film. Meanwhile, we’re pulled into the endless nonsensical ramblings of our villains who exchange bouts of faux-witty dialogue back and forth. Pumpkinhead is sadly depicted as a man in a costume, an obvious puppet head, and awful computer effects.

And when I say awful, I mean awful, the long shot of Pumpkinhead on the side of a church climbing its walls is so conspicuous and shoddy it will take you out of the film immediately, as it did me, and when he finally wreaks unholy havoc on church goers, he looks like a terrible computer game mock-up used for pre-production on the actual big budget film. Essentially, there’s nothing really good about this cheesy sequel, and Henriksen attempts to resurrect his career. Gee, I can't hardly wait for "Pumpkinhead 4."