Badass city biker folks run over backwoodsman Lance Henriksens kid, and he invokes a hillbilly demon called Pumpkinhead to seek the ultimate revenge.
Despite elaborate monster effects co-ordinated by director Stan Winston and some interesting bits of rural folklore, this is essentially just another Friday the 13th style lets-kill-off-some-teenagers-one-by-one movie which doesn't work nearly half as well as any of the more illustrious predecessors.
The monster, which resembles a scarecrow version of the Alien alien, is impressive, but the plot plods on in by-the-numbers fashion.