Is this supposed to be scary?

Your brain has a lot of holes. Good grief.

I have little problem with the acting. Some of the city kids have awful moments, but Henriksen and the witch sell it. The story is very simple and I didn't notice holes myself, and you haven't brought any to my attention. It's also so incredibly annoying when people think a horror movie's worth is measured ONLY by how scary it is. In any film genre, people critique the story, the directing, the acting, the music, the special effects, etc. But when most people get to a horror film, they don't bother to evaluate any of that. They just ask themselves if it was scary or not. I don't understand it. Pumpkinhead has fantastic effects, a great story, and plethora of Halloween staples that make it essential viewing every October for me.

And Pumpkinhead is just what the locals call him because he's summoned with a relic from a pumpkin patch graveyard.

yes sir. and it is

While it is a "horror" movie it really more about the monsters within us all. A cold heartless act (hurting the boy) drives his father to seek justice when that's the last thing the boy or his father would truly want. Lance played from how he thought he might feel in the same situation. Thing is its truly about the blinding pain and want of revenge not justice, the creature is our dark self in a single minded drive for vengeance against all the teens not just the guilty, of course in the movie Lance's character faces and over comes his lust for vengeance and he pays the price. I think the reason it has such a following is we all see ourselves in both the monster and Lance. And to be honest the only reason I can think of how its scary is the idea that as the seeker you must pay, as the hunted there's no escape, just like in real life you can't run or escape your monster you have to face it. I hope I helped some. Maybe try watching again with those things in mind, and try to remember when it was made, we saw things a bit different than.

Not really big on horror films. Especially don't like the ultra violence generally associated with them (gory don't equal scary either, or good film making).

I've always liked this film. Basic premise is solid, and well-acted. When Henriksen is on point, he can be very good, and he's very good in this.

Credit to the film for keeping the violence level on low. It's actually rather restrained.

No, I never found this to be scary at all. But it was very atmospheric, and that can be extremely effective. It was here.

There are tons of movies like this, where they come up with a meh plot in order to get a bunch of people into a situation where a monster/psycho runs around killing them. It's not supposed to be perfect, just entertaining. I enjoyed it even though I was very aware that there were things wrong with it.

Then i suggest you try watching this movie at night when the moon is full. When the movie is over go outside and walk through the woods alone.

What holes does the plot have? It's a pet peeve of mine when people come to a board calling a film horrible and don't bother explaining exactly what way said movie is horrible. While it didn't scare me (no film truly has for many years but I enjoy watching horror more than any other genre so I still do), I still find it great. It is a story of a man who loses the one thing he truly cares about in life (his son) and how he tries to get revenge. That attempt for revenge ends up destroying him just as much as the people responsible for his son's death. I think the story is great and this movie has a wonderful atmosphere.

Burn, witch! Burn, witch! Burn! Burn! Burn!