How many jump scares are in Pumpkinhead?

Pumpkinhead has 5 jump scares, based on Watch Darkly's per-film jump-scare count.

What are some films like Pumpkinhead?

Films similar to Pumpkinhead on Watch Darkly include Hokum (2026), The Wretched (2019) — selected by cosine similarity on the curator scoring across fear, gore, atmosphere, and overall quality.

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folk-horror

Pumpkinhead

1988 · R · 1h 26m

A grim fairy tale.

When a group of teenagers inadvertently kill his only son, Ed Harley seeks the powers of a backwoods witch to bring the child back to life.

Plot summary via TMDB

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Jump scares

Pumpkinhead has 5 jump scares. Compare counts

Genres

fantasyhorrorthriller

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Details

Budget$3.5M

Box office$4.4M

Directed by

Stan Winston

Written by

Gary Gerani, Mark Patrick Carducci, Stan Winston, Richard Weinman

Cinematography

Bojan Bazelli

Music

Richard Stone

Starring

Lance Henriksen as Ed Harley · Jeff East as Chris · John D'Aquino as Joel · Cynthia Bain as Tracy · Kerry Remsen as Maggie · Joel Hoffman as Steve · Kimberly Ross as Kim · Florence Schauffler as Haggis

Production

DEG, Lion Films, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, United Artists

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