Is Pumpkinhead actually good?

Pumpkinhead sits in the 71.8% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 71.8% of them.

How does Pumpkinhead compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Pumpkinhead lands in the 68.8% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Pumpkinhead's score based on?

202 calibrated reviewers stand behind Pumpkinhead's score.

1988

global pct

71.8

Film · 1988 · Films · 1980s

Pumpkinhead

Name: Pumpkinhead
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Released: 1988

Scored from 202 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

71.8%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

68.8%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

91.5%

AI-adjusted percentile

202 calibrated reviewers

Summary

After his young son is accidentally killed by a group of vacationing city teenagers, a grieving backwoods farmer named Ed Harley seeks out an old mountain witch to summon a terrifying demon of vengeance called Pumpkinhead. As the creature begins hunting down the teens one by one, Harley discovers a horrifying psychic bond with the monster and must confront the true cost of his revenge.

Released in 1988, Pumpkinhead is a fantasy and horror film.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 720 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 202 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 204 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.