Pumpkinhead has been a lovely surprise for me; in revisiting the film for the first time since being very, very small, my low expectations have been exceeded and I have found a new fondness for it.
It’s not a masterpiece by any stretch; but as a viewer going into Pumpkinhead with the assumption that it would be a flat retread of its creature feature/teen horror contemporaries, I was really happy to discover in it a simple, tight script and some…
Psycho is a beautiful film; economic, pretty and quite sad.
The plot is really lean, with every scene feeling essential to both its characters and story. Once Marion Crane decides to run off with her boss’ $40,000, there are moments throughout the film’s first half - her unlucky run-in with her employer, her conversation with the increasingly suspicious police officer - that are perfectly written to introduce more unease into her situation. The culmination of this tension is her murder,…
