PUMPKINHEAD Reboot in the Works

One of cinema's most vengeful creatures could be coming back to the big screen, as a Pumpkinhead reboot is currently in the works and could start filming as early as next year.

EW reports that Peter Block, executive producer of the Saw films, Holliston, Frozen, John Carpenter's The Ward, and numerous other horror movies, has purchased the rights to the Pumpkinhead franchise that kicked off in 1988 with Stan Winston's directorial debut and continued in three sequels (the latest one being 2007's TV movie Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud).

Along with writer Nate Atkins, Block has put together a screenplay for a Pumpkinhead reboot (at this time titled Pumpkinhead) that has the same spirit of the first film without being a shot-for-shot remake. Block is currently searching for the right director to helm the reboot, and he'd like to begin filming in early 2017.

With special effects wizard Winston at the helm of the original movie, the franchise's first film is known for boasting some of the genre's most memorable practical effects, and Block wants to instill the reboot with that same palpable approach, telling EW:

"We think that it’s going to be a nice slow reveal, lots of scares and lots of action in the beginning, and a great creature in the end, which everybody should be able to look at and say, ‘Oh, that’s Pumpkinhead!’ It’s not like you’re all of a sudden going to find that it’s some amorphous, nebulous, CGI wispy thing. You’re going to know it came from the Pumpkinhead family lineage.”"

We'll keep Daily Dead readers updated on further details regarding the Pumpkinhead reboot. In the meantime, what are your thoughts on the new take?