Pumpkin Man(Sleepy Hollow High)

## Poster

**Pumpkin Man** is the main slasher villain from the 2000 horror film, Sleepy Hollow High

He is played by **Antonio Benedict**.

## Personality

Pumpkin Man is a ruthless monster whose only goal is to kill anyone it can find. It will invoke its victims to fight back when they attempt to take it on.

## Background

Pumpkin Man is a creature that was apart of Shannon’s dream while she was sleeping during her mythology class. The origins of the Pumpkin Man are unknown in the dream but appear to be taken directly from the legend of the Headless Horseman as Shannon lives in Sleepy Hollow. In her dream, the Pumpkin Man stalks through the woods, looking for victims for it to kill with its sword while riding its own horse.

## Biography

During one of Shannon’s dream, a Jogger was running through the woods until she ran into the Pumpkin Man’s horse where he appears and kills her with his sword.

Later, as Shannon sleeps during her mythology class, she dreams that she and four of her classmates, Diana, Bobbi, Jay, and Z, are taken to the woods where they must pick up the trash as punishment for their actions, such as Z and Bobbi’s hazing on another student, Justin, for snitching on Z’s drug deals while they wearing a pumpkin mask and a grim reaper mask. Once they arrive in the woods with one of the teachers, Mr. E, they start going through the woods to pick up the trash.

During the clean-up, Diana discovers a fanny pack where she finds cash inside after throwing the Fanny pack down a hill. As she tries to get back up the hill, she discovers the hand of a dead body and calls for help, only for the Pumpkin Man to appear and behead her.

Later, while Mr. E looks for Diana, Bobbi takes Z to another part of the woods to tell him that’s pregnant. As the two argue with each other, Z becomes shocked when the Pumpkin Man appears behind Bobbi and decapitates her with its sword, shooting blood on Z.

Z heads straight to the others and tries to warn them, while also being defensive with a gun, but they accuse him of killing Bobbi after discovering blood on the ground of where she was and seeing her blood all over Z.

With two students missing, Mr. E heads to the nearby gas station to call for help, but on his way on the trial through the woods, he sees the Pumpkin Man’s silhouette and believes it to be either Diana or Bobbi. However, the Pumpkin appears in front of him on its horse and Mr. E attempts to fight back. Unfortunately, Mr. E gets his arm sliced off and is killed by the Pumpkin Man’s sword.

During nighttime, Shannon and Jay set up a fire in the woods, much to Z’s objection. When he mentions about the Pumpkin Man, Shannon and Jay start to believe in him now and try to think who could be trying to kill them. After some thinking, Z thinks the Pumpkin Man is Justin, getting revenge for the hazing, since he saw his own pumpkin mask in Justin’s trunk earlier.

Just then, Pumpkin Man appears and Z shoots him with his gun until it falls down. Jay checks out the body to ensure it’s dead, but Pumpkin Man suddenly impales him on his sword, much to Shannon’s sorrow. Z tries to fight back against Pumpkin Man but it ends with him getting his head sliced down the middle. With Shannon the only one left, Pumpkin Man grabs her where she grabs his pumpkin mask and pulls it off, revealing his headless stump to her, much to her horror.

After pulling the mask off, Shannon suddenly wakes up from her nightmare where it’s revealed that it was all a dream and all of her friends are still alive.

## Kills

* **Jogger**: Killed by sword.(Off-screen)
* **Diana**: Decapitated by sword.
* **Bobbi**: Decapitated by sword.(Off-screen)
* **Mr. E**: Right arm sliced off and killed with a sword.(Off-screen)
* **Jay**: Impaled by sword.
* **Z**: Stabbed in the shoulder by a thrown sword and head sliced down the middle.