Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes
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| Written by | Jake West Barbara Werner |
| Directed by | Jake West |
| Starring | Doug Bradley Lance Henriksen |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom United States Romania |
| Language(s) | English |
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| Producer(s) | Brad Krevoy Pierre Spengler Donald Kushner |
| Cinematography | Erik Alexander Wilson |
| Running time | 91 minutes |
| Distributor | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment |
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| Preceded by | Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings |
| Followed by | Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud |
Pumpkinhead 3: Ashes To Ashes is a 2006 made for television sequel in the Pumpkinhead franchise of horror films. The film is directed by Jake West (Evil Aliens), who co-wrote the movie with Barbara Werner. It follows 1988's Pumpkinhead and 1994's Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings.
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[edit] Plot
Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes plotline follows more closely to the first film, with townspeople angered over the local mortician stealing and selling the organs of their loved ones and then dumping the corpses in a swamp, rather than cremating them. When the townspeople find out, they have the old witch Haggis summon Pumpkinhead through the mummified body of Ed Harley (played by Lance Henriksen, who reprises his role from the first film). Pumpkinhead then proceeds to go on his killing rampage murdering all those responsible for the desecration, while Doc Frasier (played by Hellraiser's Doug Bradley) hurries to murder those who summoned Pumpkinhead, which will effectively kill the demon in the process.
[edit] Cast
- Doug Bradley as Doc Fraser
- Douglas Roberts as Bunt Wallace
- Lisa McAllister as Dahlia Wallace
- Tess Panzer as Molly Sue Allen
- Emanuel Parvu as Oliver Allen
- Ioana Ginghina as Ellie Johnson
- Lance Henriksen as Ed Harley
- Radu Iacobian as Richie
- Catalin Paraschiv as Ronnie Johnson
- Dan Astileanu as Sheriff Bullock
- Aurel Dicu as Tiny Wallace
- Iulian Glita as Junior Wallace
- Lynne Verrall as Haggis
- Emil Hostina as Lenny
- Philip Bowen as Reverend McGee
- Valentin Vasilescu as Deputy Ben
- Bart Sidles as Fred
- Mircea Stoian as Agent Bensen
- Radu Banzaru as Agent Black
- Liviu Gherghe as Stan
[edit] Production
Initially announced as Pumpkinhead 3, it was filmed back-to-back with another sequel titled Pumpkinhead 4 in Bucharest, Romania. The films were renamed Pumpkinhead: Ashes To Ashes and Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud, respectively, before their release.
The film effectively ignores the events portrayed in the Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings sequel with Lance Henriksen returning as the ghost of Ed Harley, his character from the first film. Doug Bradley, well known to horror fans as the Cenobite Pinhead from the Hellraiser films, also stars in the film as Doc Fraser. The movie received mixed reviews with a lot of the criticism focusing mainly on the film's poor CGI.
[edit] Release
Pumpkinhead 3: Ashes to Ashes premiered on SCI FI on October 28, 2006.
[edit] Notes
- Pumpkinhead does not take on the likeness of any of its summoners, or Ed Harley as it did in the original Pumpkinhead film.
- Pumpkinhead is notably bigger in this movie and more muscular that the last versions, which involved it being more sinewy, but seemed to get smaller every time a summoner was killed until one was left leaving this Pumpkinhead the same size as the first.
- Ed Harley appears as both a ghost in Bunt's mind and as the physical remains which become the new creature. In his ghostly form he wears black which seems to indicate that in Bunt's eyes he is not a force to be trusted, and it represents his betrayal of Ed from the first movie.
- Brian Bremer, the original actor to portray Bunt does not return for this film. Though he was asked but could not appear due to other commitments.
- Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) has made this Pumpkinhead much more agile, and also given its tail prehensile properties.
- The movie also implies the idea of a female Pumpkinhead for Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud, because the witch Haggis buries one of the female summoners of the demon's corpses at the end.
- During the church scene Pumpkinhead lights the priest on fire. This is a parody of the belief that a demon, upon entering a church, will burst into flames. Rather than the demon bursting into flames, it was the priest.
- The Pumpkinhead creature was originally created by the late Stan Winston, one of the world's best known make-up and effects artists.
- Controversial Composer GSpider aka Garey Snider wrote trailer music while watching rough clips of the unreleased film.
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