That’s right! We’re starting this one off with some cheap jumpscares, but it’s been so
long since I’ve watched one like that, that I’m actually looking forward to some more of it!
This is Black Pumpkin, and for those of you that say horror season is over, you’re dead
wrong! Every season is the season for horror! Spoiler alert. While I might give you my opinion
on the film, that’s no substitute for watching it for yourself.
Links to the film are in the description. We open on Mr. Leavitt answering a knock at
his door at night. And just in case he wasn’t scared enough the first time, he calmly puts
on his glasses so he can at least see what’s going to give him a heart attack this time.
When he looks again, there’s no one there, and he turns to go back to his TV.
Of course, he’s got his bottle of alcohol there with him, but when he goes to pour
some in his cup, an aggressive knock comes from the door this time. This time,
he swings the door open and walks outside, but all he finds is his rocking chair rocking by
itself and a black jack-o-lantern sitting neatly on his porch.
After he blows it out, he heads back in and tries to find some medicine for his headache.
Of course, he’s out, so his next step is to get more ice for his drink. Second best
medicine for anyone in a horror story. Not to mention, he lays one of those ice
pickers down on the counter, and three seconds later, it’s gone. Does he notice it? Nope! So
at least we have an even better idea of what kind of horror we’re watching! One where the
characters deserve what comes their way since they’re so ignorant to the world around them.
A knock comes from the door again, except this time, Mr. Leavitt gets his shotgun.
That’s right. If I get jumpscared, you’re ALL getting jumpscared!
Shortly after, his daughter, Sarah comes home from work, and she talks to him like he’s right
around the corner. When she goes to check on him, she sees how the killer left him,
and she goes to open the door to run. When she does, she’s blown away by the rigged shotgun that
sits on the front porch. Then, someone comes into the house to collect candy that Sarah spilled,
and a weird commercial plays. Now, if I played every single clip I wanted
to show you, I’d end up showing the whole movie. So, this is a message to anyone that’s actually
watched this. This little jingle that plays here was so catchy that I want it as a ringtone,
and for those that don’t know, I guess you’ll have to watch it for yourself!
The next day, we are looking through the eyes of a mask as we sneak around a house.
It turns out to be Regan who is sneaking up on Laurie, and her little jumpscare isn’t
as good as she had hoped for. Suddenly, Barbara comes home, and she’s appalled
at the state the house and children are in. Meanwhile in the other room, Elliot is working
on a school project that he and his friend, Lawrence, are working on for school. It’s almost
like a middle school true crime show. Honestly, I would’ve watched it if those kinds of things
were all over the place like they are now. After Lawrence goes into the forest to nail voodoo
dolls to trees, he’s attacked by an older teen, and suddenly, two teens in a creepy,
pedo van chase after him. Lawrence escapes into town, but he’s still not free yet. He
jumps off his bike and hides behind an apartment building. Suddenly, Alex makes himself known.
Yes. First thoughts when you find a big middle school child hiding in your trash
cans? Pull a gun on them of course. Lawrence eventually thanks Alex for not killing him,
and Alex warns him to be careful the next couple days. Be careful of what? You?! The
whole conversation they have, he’s just standing there in a bathrobe with a gun in the air.
After Judd and Ace catch up to Lawrence, they start to torment him, but they make the mistake
of doing it in Laurie’s yard. She comes out to send the bullies away, and she tells them
to never mess with Lawrence again. I’m sorry. She sends off teenage boys in
her underwear, and she thinks that they’ll just never come back? Even Lawrence is getting a show
while he lies on the ground. He doesn’t look too upset about it either. Who just walks out of their
house like that?! Where’s her mother?! Eventually, everyone in the house heads
out for school, and Alex is seen spying on them from the tree across the street.
Something about what Lawrence said to him about Diablo's Den didn’t sit right with him.
Once at school, Laurie meets up with her friends, and the brothers show up to invite them all to
the Diablo's Den to smoke and party at a bonfire that night. After they leave,
everyone goes their own way, and the school day goes pretty normal for everyone.
Elliot and Lawrence give their presentation on Diablo's Den, and Lawrence mentions the legend
he heard from Alex earlier. When he mentions Bloody Bobby, the teacher gets a little concerned
and talks to them after he dismisses the class. When he finds out that Lawrence heard about it
from Alex, he warns the kids away from him. Now, everyone knows that the quickest way to make
a kid do something, is to warn them away from it in the first place. Especially a couple of
horror freaks on Halloween?! That’s a sure way to guarantee they do exactly what they aren’t
supposed to do. This movie is that good mix of low budget, bad, and cheesy, and I love it.
You know what? I’m starting to too. That night, a bunch of people head up to
Diablo's Den to have a good time, but it ends up being kind of lame. Eventually,
it ends up just being the two couples, and Ace can’t stop smoking it up. Meanwhile,
everyone else is relaxing at Laurie’s house, but Elliot finds some more information on Alex.
Told you! Elliot makes Lawrence come look at the clips he’s
found about Bloody Bobby, and they realize that the Leavitt family had been murdered in the same
house they live in now. Meanwhile, the crew up at Diablo's Den run into the voodoo dolls Lawrence
put up before, and they realize that they look a lot like Ace and Judd. The crew plays around
with them and ‘kills’ the dolls before heading back to their little suarez at the bonfire.
Back at the house, Laurie tells the boys not to believe everything they find on the internet,
but they find it a little hard to let this one go. Over at Alex’s house, it seems that he is
connecting Lawrence and Elliot to the legend of Bloody Bobby now. As he watches the clock
countdown to midnight on Halloween morning, we cut to Judd’s van rocking in the woods.
Rule number one of horror! Do not be a virgin, but also don’t have sex! You gotta find that
middle ground, or you’re in for a bad time. After they’re done, Judd is left alone in the van,
and we see a hand grab the hatchet from the tree with the voodoo dolls.
When we cut back to Judd, he’s struggling to get a beer when he hears something.
So cheesy! Look at it! I love it! You’ve got to love a good horror movie that doesn’t take
itself too seriously. This film knows what it is, and it’s embraced it wholeheartedly.
Back at the fire, Ace is still trying to make moves on Laurie’s friend, but she just can’t stand
that he hasn’t picked up on the obvious hints. After she tells him off, he starts
to get a bloody nose, and he wanders into the woods to try and find her. Soon, everyone is
lost on their own in the woods, but Judd’s van has different plans as it runs over the one girl.
Why haven’t I heard of Bloody Bobby before?! I would’ve loved to watch
something like this around Halloween time.
Soon, Ace is found with Bloody Bobby tearing him to pieces. Guts are being pulled out, and
he dies in agony. The final girl gets tied up and doused in lighter fluid before Bloody Bobby lights
her on fire with a marshmallow. That’s right. A flaming marshmallow! Have you ever seen death by
marshmallow? If you have, put the movie in the comments, because I would love to see that.
Back at the house, Barbara makes the kids understand that they are not to
eat any candy until she checks it, because there are a lot of perverts out there.
Me neither, Regan! That sounds like the kind of candy you would’ve gotten offered
in Judd’s van in the shady part of town. In town, Alex comes out to read the morning paper,
but when he reads the headline, he can’t believe what he sees. He heads inside to
check his security camera, and he finds out that Bloody Bobby delivered his paper personally.
As everyone gets ready for their Halloween day, the Peterson family goes about all of their normal
routine. On the other side of town, Laurie’s friend gets ready to go to the school dance,
but breaking news comes on the tv about finding two teen bodies by Diablo’s Den.
She tries to call her friends, but she ends up getting a call from Bloody Bobby instead.
That weird children's laughter is always perfect for a scary movie. There’s nothing
more unsettling than a demon child. As she goes to answer a knock at her door,
she finds a black jack-o-lantern, and she finds it smashed the next time she opens the
door. As she gets more freaked out, she realizes that someone is messing with her, and she hopes
that it’s her friend. When she makes her way back upstairs, she finds a body in her desk chair.
We’ve seen death by Halloween lights before, but seeing him grab them from the background
while we’re focused on the body was a nice little touch to keep us on our toes.
Eventually, her neck snaps, and Bloody Bobby answers a phone call from Laurie.
Laurie hangs up and comes out to take a picture with her siblings before Barbara leaves for work,
and they all say goodbye. After Elliot takes Regan trick or treating, Laurie prepares the house for
her big night with her boyfriend. As knocks come from the door, breaking news comes on, and Laurie
misses it while she hands out candy. I feel like this was set before the COVID
pandemic. I literally had no trick or treaters the past two years.
Were y’all busy on Halloween night? Knocks come from the door again, and Laurie
opens the door to Bloody Bobby. She thinks it’s just another trick or treater and tells
him Happy Halloween. When he keeps knocking after that, he’s gone each time until her boyfriend is
finally the one that’s knocking. As she lets him in, they begin to start their hot and heavy night.
Meanwhile, Regan, Lawrence, and Elliot are out trick or treating, and Lawrence notices
someone is following them from the shadows. As Laurie finds out that the kids are on their
way home, she gets her boyfriend up, and they head out to the dance. Lawrence still thinks
someone is following them, and he takes them through a shortcut through the church.
I would like to nominate Regan as this year’s new scream queen. The depth of her scream is heartier
than any other actress by far. Of course that’s sarcasm, but I like how she wasted
no time in letting that squeak out. Danger! Alex goes on to warn them about Bloody Bobby,
and he explains that Lawrence and his dolls are to blame for him coming back.
As the kids head home, Laurie rides with her boyfriend to the dance, but he almost runs
over Bloody Bobby in the middle of the road. When they get home, Regan admits that Alex scared
her a lot, but Elliot assures her that it’s all fake. Lawrence isn’t so sure about it being
made up, and they finally admit to each other that they are scared of it being true now.
When Alex gets home, he hears a knock on the door and opens up to see who it is.
I’m sorry. He just warned the kids not to answer the door if anyone comes knocking,
yet he’s over here answering the door with his gun out? If I’ve learned anything, it’s that
a gun is absolutely pointless when you’re being hunted by a vengeful spirit on Halloween. Unless
you’re a Winchester brother on Supernatural. There better be salt rounds somewhere in his house.
As Alex goes to go back inside his apartment, he is scared by the body
of one of the teenage girls, and he falls down the stairs and hits his head.
Back at the Peterson house, Elliot tucks in Regan, and he and Lawrence sit downstairs and
eat candy while watching old horror movies. They hear a sound come from Regan’s room,
but when they come in to check on her, Regan is hiding from something in her
window. The boys don’t see anything, and they head back downstairs.
They seriously did a good job of creating Bloody Bobby, and I’m very upset that I
didn’t know about this movie until now. Elliot throws a pizza in the oven for him
and Lawrence, and we can see Bloody Bobby stalking him from different points in the house.
We also see that the knife is gone from the counter, but of course,
he doesn’t realize it. Soon, the power goes out, and they hear a knocking at the door. Before they
can even get to it, the door is opened on it’s own, and Bloody Bobby appears behind them.
When Laurie is brought home by her boyfriend, they hear the boys screaming from inside, and he tries
to find a way inside. Lawrence takes a fire poker and hits Bloody Bobby off of Elliot, but when he
goes to pick up the demon’s mask, he gets cut on his hand. Suddenly, Laurie’s boyfriend appears
inside and helps them out of the house. When they hear Regan scream from her room
upstairs, Laurie and her boyfriend go upstairs to rescue her,
but they find something else instead. Speak up, Regan! You could’ve said something
as soon as they came through the door! No! She wanted everyone to get jumpscared too.
Bloody Bobby tackles Laurie and stabs her in the stomach before running past everyone.
The boyfriend goes to teach the demon a lesson, but he’s taken by surprise in the garage.
Bloody Bobby attacks him in the garage after he finds Laurie’s friend dead. He crushes
the boyfriend’s leg under the garage door, and he takes the lawn mower to the boyfriend’s face.
After a comical amount of blood is thrown onto the car, Lawrence makes a nice little one liner,
and the girls run back into the house to hide. When Bloody Bobby finds Regan, Laurie distracts
him long enough for Regan to knock out the demon with a hockey stick.
As they go to run out of the house, Regan makes it out, but Laurie gets trapped inside the house.
When the boys clean the windshield of all the blood, they find that Alex
has arrived with his gun. I’m not entirely sure if the
sight of a crazed Alex with a gun is a reassuring visual after seeing Bloody
Bobby take out people with lawnmowers. As Alex goes to save Laurie, Bobby stabs
him over and over before turning his attention back to Laurie. Just as he goes to carve her,
Lawrence takes Alex’s gun and shoots Bobby down. Soon the police show up, and they hear gunshots
come from inside the house. Just before the clock strikes midnight, Bobby kills Alex,
and the police find his corpse next to a trail of blood that leads out the back door.
In the present day, we see Larence is still the same Lawrence, and he sits watching old horror
movies while he eats candy. A knock comes from the door, and he slowly rolls to his
feet to answer it. When he looks down, he finds a black trick or treat pumpkin full of candy.
Always check your candy! I know a lot of people can’t
stand the lower budget, cheesy, B horror movies, but I’m actually a huge fan of them.
There is such a thing as a bad B horror and a good B horror. Black Pumpkin is a good one,
and I definitely plan on watching this more than once. Give it a shot and tell
me what you think of the song I mentioned earlier. Actually, the entire soundtrack
is a banger of electronic rock music. Thank you for watching, and I hope you
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