Mexican director Guillermo Del Toro sure does love his bugs. It seems like he always finds a way to incorporate them somehow into each one of his films, so naturally he'd want to make an entire movie based on giant, slimy, disgusting, and deadly bug-like creatures. And where would be the best city setting for a story about nasty, sub-terranean dwelling mutant insects? The Big Apple, of course!

Basement contributor Matt Bellamy has taken it upon himself to watch and review at least one horror movie a day for the month of October . . . because he's awesome that way! Tonight, Bellamy tries to stay away from Pumpkinhead, but Pumpkinhead won't let him.   I just want to take this opportunity to pay my respects to effects guru, the late Stan Winston , who not only created the creature of "Pumpkinhead" for this movie but it was also his debut as a dire ctor! I think that when it came out in 1988 perhaps it had been hyped up too much ahead of its release and when it wasn't quite the knock-out horror masterpiece many were expecting, it was pushed aside and mainly forgotten by the masses. Who cares about the mainstream though when it comes to horror?? They're not the ones these types of movies are made for! 'Pumpkinhead' has gone on to become a cult classic (as well as ...