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Netflix releases R.L. Stine’s Pumpkinhead folk-horror

8/11/2026

Summary

Story summary

Netflix released R.L. Stine’s Pumpkinhead in the United States on 17 Aug 2026 on Digital HD and DVD.
Sam (Bean Reid) steals Farmer Palmer’s (Kevin McNulty) pumpkin, trapping Finn (Seth Isaac Johnson), and must break the curse by Halloween midnight with Becka (Adeline Lo).
Writer-director Jem Garrard shot it in a folk-horror style influenced by The Wicker Man, Stephen King and Tim Burton, with a pumpkin, a scarecrow and a forest hermit played by Matty Finochio.

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Story summary

Netflix released R.L. Stine’s Pumpkinhead in the United States on 17 Aug 2026 on Digital HD and DVD.
Sam (Bean Reid) steals Farmer Palmer’s (Kevin McNulty) pumpkin, trapping Finn (Seth Isaac Johnson), and must break the curse by Halloween midnight with Becka (Adeline Lo).
Writer-director Jem Garrard shot it in a folk-horror style influenced by The Wicker Man, Stephen King and Tim Burton, with a pumpkin, a scarecrow and a forest hermit played by Matty Finochio.