Spookley the Square Pumpkin
Spookley the Square Pumpkin is a 2004 Canadian direct-to-video animated musical fantasy film about a geometric pumpkin based on the book The Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin by Joe Troiano. It was made by Holiday Hill Farm and released by Kidtoon Films and Lionsgate. The Honeydoos, three singing honeydews who sing in the style of The Pointer Sisters, are also featured. Bobby Pickett makes a brief cameo near the end of the film; his hit song "Monster Mash" is mentioned in one of the musical numbers "Transylvania Twist". Troiano and Zahn had previously written new music for Pickett's 1995 film adaptation of Monster Mash.
Plot
Two bats who live at Holiday Hill Farm, bug-eating Boris and bug-loving vegetarian Bella, discover an unusual sight in the pumpkin patch and rush to inform the farm's scarecrow, Jack, of their find, which is a young, innocent pumpkin named Spookley, who is unusually square-shaped instead of round. Jack takes a liking to Spookley, but Little Tom, a small pumpkin attached by a vine to the much larger Big Tom, begins bullying and body shaming Spookley and claims that only round pumpkins are real pumpkins. However, Jack immediately puts a stop to Little Tom's bullying.
Cast
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| author | Tom Hughes |
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| director | Bernie Denk |
| editor | Muvico |
| genre | fantasy |
| keywords | bat body shaming bully burned alive candy corn edgar allan poe essentialism live at only round pumpkins are real pumpkins pumpkin pumpkin patch river scarecrow spider tree branch vegetarian vegetarianism |
| musicBy | Jeffrey Zahn Joe Troiano |
| producer | Jeffrey Zahn Mark Zander |
| productionCompany | Holiday Hill Farm |
| publisher | Kidtoon Films Lionsgate |
| theme | animated direct-to-video |