{"id":39522,"date":"2023-10-04T00:45:54","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T04:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=39522"},"modified":"2023-10-03T22:34:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T02:34:35","slug":"pumpkin-man-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/04\/pumpkin-man-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Pumpkin Man (2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Pumpkin-Man-2021.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39523\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Pumpkin-Man-2021.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Pumpkin-Man-2021.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Pumpkin-Man-2021-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Pumpkin-Man-2021-1x1.jpg 1w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a>There\u2019s nothing like a really good feature film about Halloween, but sometimes there\u2019s also nothing wrong with short but sweet Halloween tales. \u201cPumpkin Man\u201d from Director and Writer Alex Maga\u0148a is a simple and short horror tale that works wonderfully as a treat for the holiday.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On Halloween Night, three teenage girls are pranking one another and decide to start smashing pumpkins. One of the friends warns that smashing pumpkins before midnight is bad news, as it\u2019ll conjure up the Pumpkin Man, an ancient deity who takes human souls as replacements for the smashes pumpkins. Despite her protests, the smashing ensues as they dismiss her warnings as goofy urban legends.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPumpkin Man\u201d is deep down a lot about respecting rituals and certain spiritual ideas. While it is definitely a horror movie first and foremost, it feels very inspired by RL Stine, who often writes stories about people that get comeuppance for show clear lack of respect. I wish the narrative could have been longer, and allowed the concept to breathe more with a better run time. Build up counts for a lot. But Alex Maga\u0148a works on a small budget, so she pulls off some clever feats with such a small window.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, the movie gets its point across well and does a great job giving us a horror monster that we never quite see. Despite that, the effect of the Pumpkin Man is fun and the pay off is deliciously spooky. Alex Maga\u0148a has a talent for working with small budgets and limited settings, and \u201cPumpkin Man\u201d is yet another really good horror tale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s nothing like a really good feature film about Halloween, but sometimes there\u2019s also nothing wrong with short but sweet Halloween tales. \u201cPumpkin Man\u201d from Director and Writer Alex Maga\u0148a is a simple and short horror tale that works wonderfully as a treat for the holiday.<\/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":[441,477,501,703,938],"class_list":["post-39522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-horror-month","category-movie-reviews","tag-halloween","tag-horror","tag-indie-film","tag-mystery","tag-short-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39522","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=39522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39524,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39522\/revisions\/39524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}