When a group of rambunctious teenagers inadvertently kills his only son, Ed Harley seeks the magic of a backwoods witch to bring the child back. Defying superstition, he and the witch invoke the Pumpkinhead, a monstrously clawed and fanged demon.

In 1980, Richard Boyle, a veteran war photographer whose career needs a boost, heads for El Salvador to cover the civil war there. He forms an uneasy alliance with both guerrillas in the countryside who want him to get pictures out to the US press, and the right-wing military, who want him to bring them photographs of the rebels. After the murder of Archbishop Romero, the rape and murder of an American nurse and three nuns, and the death of a fellow...