Well it was a good effort. The movie oozes Halloween spirit and pumpkin madness as promised. A good modern film addition for the Halloween season. However, it was not a sufficient effort to put it in the cadre of seasonal classics. For example, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, for Christmas, and the original 'Halloween' (Michael Meyers) movie for Halloween. This Pumpkin Man movie does not even come close to that, but being that there are actually limited actual Halloween themed movie choices out there, and the fact that this was a very solid attempt at first time feature film creators and actors, this movie is well, meh. However it delivers on Halloween themed suspense and occasional Pumpkin Man gore. So, it checks all the Halloween boxes, and does so fairly well. Acting was meh. Script and plot meh. Cinematography, sound(track), color, visuals, and overall Halloween ambience are pretty good to very good. It's not a great movie, but it is good edition to the Halloween holiday spooky season, and pumpkins a plenty. It is NOT a waste of time and could be a good movie to just have on the background during the Halloween holiday. That's just about the best compliment I can give it. It got a few extra stars on the rating simply for delivering on Halloween theme and not being terrible.
