Matisse van Rossum’s review published on Letterboxd:
Meh. I feel about the same way about Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings (which is a stupid subtitle) as I did about the original. It's just a lot of wasted potential. When I started watching this film, I hoped that it would take the opportunity to execute a good concept better than the original Pumpkinhead, but I wasn't hopeful, which is good, because it certainly didn't. It's just a lot of the same. As before, the creature looks great, but the kills are basically the same as in the first one, give or take a couple. Seriously, how many times can we watch a big scary monster just slap people around like bitches? As terrifying as the creature is, I wanted to see some people get torn apart and scattered all over the place, and the closest it comes to that is one guy getting his head pulled off. It's all just kind of one big disappointment.
The script is worse than the first one, and the story basically makes no tie-ins to the first one either. It seems to be an almost completely unrelated film, which feels sloppy. The cast is... interesting. Punky Brewster, the dad from Hellraiser, and Roger Clinton all in one place, so that's pretty special. There's a fair amount of overacting, but unlike a lot of bad horror films, this doesn't really come off as funny, just kind of lame. Overall it's an uninteresting sequel in an underdeveloped franchise.