Jacko (1995)

Linnea Quigley, Rebecca Wicks, Gary Doles, Ryan Latshaw, Catherine Walsh ... see more  , Rachel Carter , Tom Ferda , Bill Cross , Helen Keeling , Thor Schweigerath , Christina Connell , Lacy Kelly , George Castells , Bernie Fidello , Michael Walsh , Mike Conner , Katy Maznicki , Vic Savage , Ron Bernard , Rick Riggs , Rhonda Riggs , Dr. Tom Ferguson , John Carradine , Cameron Mitchell , Brinke Stevens , Dawn Wildsmith , Heidi Kneisl , Kerrylynn Dekanski , Joe Solari , Patrick Moran , Brian Bradley , David R. Watkins , Tracy Yarkoni , Justice Leak , Kevin L. Powers , April Glover , Cheri Christian , Sacha Dzuba

This Florida-lensed slasher silliness (not surprisingly produced by exploitation overlord Fred Olen Ray) is enlivened only slightly by posthumous cameos from John Carradine and Cameron Mitchell, as we... read more ll as appearances from B-movie "Scream Queens" Linnea Quigley and Brinke Stevens. The plot is basically a riff on the standard Freddy Krueger-esque supernatural-maniac formula, only here the unstoppable psycho is merely a lumbering ghoul with a big pumpkin for a head, awakened from a cursed sleep on Halloween night by the usual handful of obnoxious teenage morons. Amid confusing flashback sequences and some phony occult blathering (courtesy of the town witch), we're told that Jack-O is the incarnation of a murdered farmer who has returned to avenge himself by taking a scythe to his killers' ancestors, but this particular pumpkinhead's people-reaping spree seems to cover a much broader swath, including a crop of nubile young things -- preferably just out of the shower, or fresh from a randy romp in the local cemetery. Even allowing for a certain camp appeal, there's not an original concept to be found amid the abundant nudity and severed limbs. ~ Cavett Binion, Rovi