

Ed stumbles out of the barn but is accidentally stabbed in the arm by a pitchfork. He then drags Chris back to Harley's house, where Tracey, Bunt, and Ed have taken shelter.

Chris's dirt bike fails to start after Pumpkinhead removes the drive chain he lifts up the bike, with Chris still on it, and throws it against a tree. If anyone tries to stop Pumpkinhead or help his victims, that person becomes marked, too. Bunt relates the legend of the monster Pumpkinhead, explaining that the monster avenges one who was wronged. A local boy, Bunt, helps the two remaining campers, Tracey and Chris, reach an abandoned church. Ed arrives and shoots Pumpkinhead, but when Joel checks to see if the creature is still alive, it grabs a fallen rifle and impales him with it. The three remaining campers unsuccessfully beg the locals for help. Joel confronts Pumpkinhead with a machete, but it swats him aside and drags Kim away, whom it drops from a fatal height. The witch, however, tells him that nobody can stop Pumpkinhead and Ed will die if he interferes with the killing spree. He returns to the witch and begs her to stop the monster's actions.

While the campers search for Steve, Pumpkinhead drags away Maggie, and Ed again experiences the ensuing murder. Ed experiences the murder through the monster's eyes. Steve brings her out of her trance, but Pumpkinhead kills him. Seemingly hypnotized, she follows the voice outside the cabin. One of the girls, Maggie, hears a voice whispering her name. The monster, however, has already arrived. The witch uses blood from father and son to resurrect the corpse, which rises as a gigantic, spindly demonic monster referred to as "Pumpkinhead" by the locals.īack at the cabin, Joel begins to experience remorse for his actions and decides to turn himself in to the police. On her orders, Ed goes to an old graveyard in the mountains, digs up a corpse, and brings it back to the witch's home. Instead, Ed says that he wants revenge the witch agrees to help, but warns him that vengeance comes with a terrible price. Joel, who is personally responsible for the boy's injury and is on probation for a similar incident, rips out the phone cord, knocks one of his friends unconscious and locks him and a girl in the closet to stop them from contacting the authorities.Įd goes to see a witch and offers her gold, but she says that she cannot wake the dead. At their cabin, the campers fight about whether or not to call the police. One teen, Steve, stays with the boy until his father's return the rest flee the scene. A group of teenage campers stop by at Harley's, and, while riding their dirt bikes, they mortally injure Billy. He leaves his young son, Billy, alone while he runs an errand. In the present, Ed Harley is a widowed father and owns a small store in the country. Watching through a window, Ed witnesses the man caught and killed by a monster. A doomed man seeks sanctuary at Tom's cabin, but Tom refuses and threatens to shoot him if he does not leave. In 1957, Tom Harley waits inside his farm cabin with his wife and his son, Ed.
