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| Red Wings Auto Club | |
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| Red Wings Auto Club | |
| Continuity: | Pumpkinhead film series |
| Type: | Social group
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| Status: | Inactive |
| Leaders: | Caspar Dixon |
| Members: | Caspar Dixon; Ernst; Red Byers; Keith Knox |
| Enemies: | Pumpkinhead |
| First appearance: | Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings |
The Red Wings Auto Club is a fictional greaser gang featured in the Pumpkinhead film series. They appeared in the beginning of the 1993 film sequel Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings.
History[]
The Red Wings are a group of violent greasers that lived in the town of Ferren Woods in the 1950s. The ringleader of the group was a boy named Caspar Dixon. In 1958, five members of the Red Wings Auto Club, were driving around drinking beer. They went out near the an abandoned iron mine where they found a deformed boy named Thomas Parnell. Dixon was disgusted by Parnell's freakish appearance. The greasers bullied the frightened boy, but in short order, their bullying turned towards violence, as they began beating and kicking him repeatedly. Dixon himself cut and slashed at Parnell with a switchblade. Thomas Parnell fell into the iron mine and died. From a short distance away,
Thirty-some odd years later, the spirit of vengeance known as Pumpkinhead was summoned and was bound to Thomas Parnell's spirit. He sought to avenge Parnell's death by killing the greasers who had murdered him.
Pumpkinhead went after Ernst the farmer first. He dismembered him with his claws and impaled the rest of his body on a meat hook. The symbol of the Red Wings Auto Club was painted in blood across the barn. He then went after Red Byers, whom he murdered in his home shortly after Byers had sex with a woman named Nadine. Nadine survived, but was found in a fit of hysterics. He then attacked the Knox Brothers at their cockfighting tournament. He finally burst into the home of Judge Dixon, who tried defending himself with a handgun. He slashed at Dixon with his claws, then threw him through a window.
Members[]
- Caspar Dixon
- Ernst
- Red Byers
- Keith Knox
Notes & Trivia[]
- The subtitle of the film, "Blood Wings", takes its name from this group.
- The "Blood Wings" symbol painted in blood at Pumpkinhead's murder scenes was intended to identify victims as members of the Red Wings Auto Club. This is the only time that Pumpkinhead has ever left a calling card.
- The style, including the hair and jackets, are akin to many Stephen King greaser villains.
See also[]
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