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On the 10th Day of Halloween, pumpkiny goodness.

By Burbanked on Oct 22, 2006 in Movies, Off the Rails | 1,096 views |

Now we couldn’t very well honor Halloween here at Burbanked without paying due praise to our friend the pumpkin. And by “friend” I mean “that thing we stab with knives and scoop out its guts and scrape away its innards and then cut chunky holes from its thick flesh and then broil what’s left of its insides to a red-hot flame for hours on end, all for our own twisted amusement”.

Yes…I just love this time of year.

Today’s first squashy link comes to us from ExtremePumpkins.com where they’ve got just a swell collection of innovatively carved pumpkins pictured in a number of dire circumstances. Featured above, of course, is the Aliens Pumpkin, which is ideal for children’s parties and old folks’ homes.

For a small fee, Zombie Pumpkins provides you with access to downloadable pumpkin-carving stencils that you can use to create classic movie-themed gourdheaded monsters such as Michael Myers, Jack Torrance, Hannibal Lecter and Joan Rivers (I may have made that last one up. Or…did I?)

Spectacular 3-D pumpkin faces? Sure, why not? This Web site (via Neatorama) gives a step-by-step tutorial to the creation of amazingly lifelike pumpkin faces, utilizing just a single pumpkin, a handful of clay sculpting tools, and roughly 72 pounds of patience, creativity and sheer artistic talent that you likely don’t have. Because if you did you wouldn’t use a tutorial, now would you?

You can find virtually everything on the Internet, right? So why not head over to Liquid Generation and carve yourself a virtual pumpkin? More or less totally pointless but clever and harmless fun. Just make sure you follow the directions!