Wonderful character development!

Thanks for the memories!

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

This film was very hard to rate. For a low budget horror flick, it wasn't bad, but it could have been so much better.First, it spent entirely too much time with the actors just acing stupid. Lots of hot girls running around, but the guys were just plain dumb. It wasted a lot of time that could have been spent on horror. After all, it is a Halloween slasher film.The old man was one of the best parts of the film. Now, he was really creepy. Lance (David Austin) and his buds were just like Draco Malfoy and his crew. You just wanted them to get their due.The pissing on the head bit was certainly original - and funny.Less silliness and more slashing.

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!!!!

Jonathan(Michael)is tormented by the tragic death at his hands, when he accidentally murdered his sister's boyfriend, thinking he was protecting her from a real killer during a really stupid prank gone awry. Lynn(Amy Weber) decides it might be best if they packed up and headed for a Halloween party in the boonies..the country farm plantation town of Carver for some much needed fun away from the horror of the past. Jonathan is receiving frightening supernatural threats from the person he killed and several teenagers are dying at the hands of a psycho in a warped pumpkin mask with a carving blade. Is the killer actually Lynn's dead boyfriend, who might've received a passage from hell to torment Jonathan? Could the killer actually be nutty, belligerent farmer Ben(Terrence Evans)who owns the plantation and has the unique ability to carve pumpkins skillfully?The kind of cheap slasher horror crap you expect with added moronic premise of a possible fiend from hell manifesting himself through Jonathan. The characters are the annoying boozer types you expect..it's too bad not enough them meet their doom. Cheap horror effects do not help matters. Amy Weber provides some much needed eye candy, quite well built in her tight jeans and smallish shirt. Minka Kelly as Jonathan's love interest Tammy provides a worthy heroine to root for. Not much to recommend about this one, except the setting provides old farm houses, steel sheds & silos for the killer to roam and hide. Unusual for this type of slasher flick..no nudity to speak of. Not as many death sequences either, and most of those are unsuccessfully lame or off-camera. Terrence Evans is quite over-the-top as farmer Ben, always ranting and raving like a loony regarding everyone's lack of the ability to carve..not to mention the jargon he spits about Jonathan's evil taking over. There are actually kids in this film named Bonedaddy and Spinner..so if that doesn't inform you what kind of movie awaits nothing will.

What makes " The Pumpkin Karver" a great little film? When you can make a film of this quality for little or no money tells it all. The talent lies with the writer/director Robert Mann Jr. The Pumpkin Karver is a case study for any up an coming film maker. The late Jack Warner, of Warner Brothers Studios once said; a financial success is an artistic success. It is my understanding that the distributor" First Look" jumped all over this picture as soon as they screened it. The day the Pumpkin Karver showed up in the market place, people started buying it, renting it and enjoying it. The real win here, is for the viewer. Coming down the line soon, Robert Mann's next three films, which are in the making now, have solid budgets attached to them. They will take six months each to make, not six year; and yes, the first of the three films out will be a super Horror/thriller. Any writer/director who can take a penny and make it look like a dollar on the screen will be making films in this town for a long time to come. The secret is; to make high quality, cost effective films over and over again. Very few writer/directors can do that. Robert Mann Jr., has discovered this secret. I for one am investing in this young talents next three pictures.See you at the movies.....