{"id":39504,"date":"2023-10-13T00:41:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T04:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=39504"},"modified":"2023-10-13T00:45:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T04:45:05","slug":"black-pumpkin-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/13\/black-pumpkin-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Pumpkin (2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/BlackPumpkin2018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39505\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/BlackPumpkin2018.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/BlackPumpkin2018.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/BlackPumpkin2018-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/BlackPumpkin2018-2x1.jpg 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a>I could definitely picture re-watching Ryan McGonagle\u2019s \u201cBlack Pumpkin\u201d down the line. If anything it\u2019s so bathed in Halloween ephemera that it\u2019s a decent bit of background sounds for the respective Halloween geek. What holds it back though is that there seems to be so much behind the narrative that we\u2019re not informed on, thus there feels like a big chunk of the intend narrative is either cut out or missing. That\u2019s due to the fact that \u201cBlack Pumpkin\u201d is technically a sequel to the 2016 movie \u201cBloody Bobby,\u201d later-released in 2021 as \u201cThe Legend of Fall Creek.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, it\u2019s a sequel\u2014<strong><em>kind of<\/em><\/strong>. But not really\u2026?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Elliot (Dogen Eyeler) and his friend Laurence aka Pork Chop (Grayson Thorne Kilpatrick) accidentally awaken Bloody Bobby after going into Devil\u2019s Den to film something for a school project. As Halloween comes around, Bloody Bobby rises and targets the two kids, Elliot\u2019s sister Laurie (Ellie Patrikios), her friends and some partying people in the woods. However, someone has been waiting for Bloody Bobby to return, someone who has had dealings with the evil before.<\/p>\n<p>In either case, much of \u201cBlack Pumpkin\u201d feels missing, so a lot of important information is left out. This leaves so much of the events that unfold to feel inexplicable and random. Does the horror host who pops up on TV indicate the arrival of Bloody Bobby? If so, how does he do it? What\u2019s his connection? And what is Bloody Bobby exactly? Is he an avenging angel or a guardian of Halloween a la Sam from \u201cTrick r Treat\u201d? In either case, Bloody Bobby has a neat design to him, and his violent streak matched with his mischievous nature make him a fun villain.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s just not a lot of material to dig in to with this established mythology. \u201cBlack Pumpkin\u201d is essentially a slasher film with teens getting slaughtered on Halloween, and while normally that\u2019s fun, here it feels like Bloody Bobby is wasting his potential. In either case, \u201cBlack Pumpkin\u201d does have spontaneous bursts of fun, and neat kills. For fans of comedian <em><strong>Matt Rife<\/strong><\/em>, he even appears here as the boyfriend of protagonist Laurie. For all intents and purposes, \u201cBlack Pumpkin\u201d is a perfectly serviceable Halloween themed horror film. It\u2019s not perfect, but it kept my attention enough to inspire me to dig deeper in to the legend of Bloody Bobby.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3ZQOCdn\"><strong>Now Streaming on Amazon Prime Video.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I could definitely picture re-watching Ryan McGonagle\u2019s \u201cBlack Pumpkin\u201d down the line. If anything it\u2019s so bathed in Halloween ephemera that it\u2019s a decent bit of background sounds for the respective Halloween geek. What holds it back though is that there seems to be so much behind the narrative that we\u2019re not informed on, thus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[219,441,477,501,703,840,950],"class_list":["post-39504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-horror-month","category-movie-reviews","tag-comedy","tag-halloween","tag-horror","tag-indie-film","tag-mystery","tag-revenge","tag-slasher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39504"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41358,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39504\/revisions\/41358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}