The Pumpkin Karver (2006) Reviews

• I was an extra in this movie.

  bdearingerbooyah2006-10-25

  I agree with everyone else. This movie was extremely horrible. It was filmed about 4 years ago in my home town, palmdale, CA. If you look in the party scenes, i am the one dressed as the pimp in the purple costume. I have never been in a movie before so i was pretty psyched to see myself. This alone made the hour an a half worth it. I still wont recommend this movie to a lot of people. When i was in it the director told me it might not come out in the states, so when it did it was pretty exciting. If you are with your friends one night and you have nothing to do, and you are bored out of your mind, you should rent it. It makes for a good laugh and you can see how crappy the town i had to grow up in is.

• Terrible Story, Characters, Direction and Acting

  claudio_carvalho2011-12-31

  In the Halloween in West Minister, the teenager Lynn Starks (Amy Weber) is attacked by a man wearing a pumpkin face mask in the basement of her house. Her younger brother Jonathan Starks (Michael Zara) is carving a pumpkin in his room and hears her sister crying for help. He uses the knife to protect his sister, stabbing the assaulter. When they take the mask off his face, they realize that the man is Lynn's boyfriend Alec (David J. Wright) playing a prank on Lynn. One year later, the siblings are living in Carver, and they are invited to a Halloween party in the field. Lynn introduces her friend Tammy (Minka Kelly) to her brother, who is haunted by Alec, and Jonathan stays with Tammy. However, her former boyfriend Lance (David Austin) bullies Jonathan along the night. Meanwhile several youngsters are attacked by the Pumpkin Face that carves their faces. "The Pumpkin Karver" is a film with terrible story, characters, direction and acting. The plot is unoriginal and full of clichés; there are several slashers very similar to "The Pumpkin Karver", but the conclusion is awful. The characters are stupid and non-charismatic and the two guys dressed in white are annoying and unbearable. The direction and the acting are bad, and Michael Zara is very weak in the lead role. My vote is two. Title (Brazil): "Pumpkin Karver, a Nova Face do Terror" ("Pumpkin Karver, the New Face of Terror")

• Truly terrible

  superprincevince2008-04-05

  I'm sorry, but I cannot understand how anyone could possible enjoy watching this movie. Indeed, I am annoyed with myself for watching the whole of this terrible piece of trite. Okay, so the film starts off fine, for the first five minutes, and looks like it's going to be quite interesting... but then it descends into nonsensical rubbish! Key problems: The plot (if I can call it that!) - just does not make any sense! And the so called twist at the end is so obvious that it can't even be called a twist! The characters - The lead character whines and moans, and just becomes plain irritating - why the girl falls for him I have absolutely no idea! Add to this a bunch of totally annoying 'friends' (especially the 'stoner' mates, who are horrific!) who are all cardboard cutout prats. The acting - Words can hardly express how awful they are... especially the lead guy who is so bad I wanted to stick pins in my eyes. The writing - whoever wrote this should look very hard at themselves - a lot of it makes no sense - for example the old man, what the hell is he talking about?!?!? Overall: There is nothing for me to praise in this film, please stay away from it, this is one of the worst films ever made - I am amazed that it was ever put into production. Terrible!!!!

• The Worst "Movie" I Have Ever Seen

  sadisticlopez2006-10-21

  The only reason i gave it a 3 was because it made for a fun night amongst friends dissecting this horrible waste. The story is uninspired so is the directing, acting, writing, casting. Horrible film. The only good thing in it was the Jessica Alba look-alike and the old man. The film makes no logical sense. By the end you are so frustrated because the characters all go running around calling for "Jonathan" in the most obscure places like a silo, the woods, out-houses, and over all creepy places. The killings are quick and have no tie in with the "film." The people you want to see die don't die and the ones that don't deserve to die (the Jessica Alba look-alike) die. The Jonathan character spends the whole movie crying or worrying. This film is to be avoided. Yes, it is fun to watch REALLY bad movies and make fun of them, but this is so BAD that it really should be avoided for you may become violent at the stupidity being presented to you.

• You'd probably have other things to do instead of seeing this

  jpgonc2006-10-18

  Bloody hell! This is another flick straight to video and luckily, thrown up to the garbage bin soon thereafter. Story: A useless, headless, stupid and moronic guy have the idea to mask himself of a Jack-o-Lantern armed with a rubber knife and decides to go on a prank upon his girlfriend. He does this so well that the girlfriend starts to feel threatened and screams like a mad cow for help. His brother comes to her aid and kills the idiot not knowing the error. One year later they go to a new town (Karver) to start a new life. He then start to have hallucinations and visions of his sister' boyfriend masked as a Halloween prick (It looks like Darth Maul, really). Then they go to a Halloween party and then something starts to kill all the stupid dumb teens that abound everywhere partying nonsenses. Review: Pumpkin Karver brings boredom and clichés in every frame. Nothing new but to stack the shelves with low-budget flicks in hopes of cashing in on the holiday. The story is unoriginal, unmotivated and it's like a dull evening with uninteresting people. There's some twists in this that don't really make any sense and the real killings doesn't begin until an hour into the movie... And when the killings start you begin to watch strawberry jam all over you instead of thick blood. So, as you should know, cheap slasher films are always this: Low-budget ripoffs with no solid arguments, ideas and unsustainable story lines. Advice: Feel free to see it and take your own judgment but if you're an experienced and avid horror fan you'll be much more than disappointed and then... then it'll be too late for you... time spent, money spent.