{"id":163648,"date":"2025-09-23T14:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T14:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/163648\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T14:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T14:20:10","slug":"r-l-stines-pumpkinhead-movie-gets-october-streaming-release-on-tubi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/163648\/","title":{"rendered":"R.L. Stine&#8217;s Pumpkinhead Movie Gets October Streaming Release on Tubi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/r-l-stine\/\" id=\"auto-tag_r-l-stine_1\" data-tag=\"r-l-stine\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">R.L. Stine<\/a>\u2018s Pumpkinhead is ready to face off against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/halloween\/\" id=\"auto-tag_halloween_1\" data-tag=\"halloween\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Halloween<\/a> competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/tubi\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tubi_1\" data-tag=\"tubi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tubi<\/a> Original feature is set to debut on the free <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/streaming\/\" id=\"auto-tag_streaming_1\" data-tag=\"streaming\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">streaming<\/a> service Oct. 17, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned. The cast includes Bean Reid, Adeline Lo, Kevin McNulty, Bob Frazer, Matty Finochio and Seth Isaac Johnson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tR.L. Stine\u2019s Pumpkinhead centers on teenage Sam, whose family\u2019s move to Redhaven is made worse when his brother Finn disappears \u2014 and no one else remembers that he existed. Sam joins friend Becka and eccentric Rusty in the race to find Finn and break a harvest curse before Halloween ends. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tJem Garrard (Slay) helmed the film from their own script that was inspired by Stine\u2019s The Haunting Hour. Garrard executive produces alongside James Mattagne, Joan Waricha, Harvey Kahn, Yvonne Bernard, Dan Bernard, Allen Lewis and Rama Diallo.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-hollywoodreporter-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/PH_D12_LC0335R.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"730\" width=\"1296\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tR.L. Stine\u2019s Pumpkinhead<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Tubi<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cR.L. Stine\u2019s Pumpkinhead is a playful blend of good fun, big scares with an element of adventure that taps into everything audiences love about Halloween and young-adult horror,\u201d\u00a0says Tubi chief content officer Adam Lewinson. \u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to collaborate with the legendary \u2018master of fear,\u2019 R.L. Stine, as part of our growing slate of YA storytelling that bridges generations and delivers fresh, genre-driven entertainment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAdds Stine, \u201cThere\u2019s something rotten inside these pumpkins \u2014 and it isn\u2019t pumpkin meat! I\u2019m so happy to see one of my most terrifying Halloween stories brought to chilling life in this new movie.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tStine is the best-selling novelist known for such horror book series as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/goosebumps\/\" id=\"auto-tag_goosebumps_1\" data-tag=\"goosebumps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Goosebumps<\/a> and Fear Street. R.L. Stine\u2019s Pumpkinhead hails from production company Front Street Pictures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"R.L. Stine\u2018s Pumpkinhead is ready to face off against the Halloween competition. The Tubi Original feature is set&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,44305,54162,344,107948,2708,36505],"class_list":{"0":"post-163648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-goosebumps","12":"tag-halloween","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-r-l-stine","15":"tag-streaming","16":"tag-tubi"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}