Awesome Halloween

Need a quick and easy costume for Halloween? Steve Wintercroft makes polygonal mask templates that fit on A4 paper or card stock. The designs are blank, so feel free to spice them up with colored paper or doodles.

Maymo and Penny are a couple of lemon beagles. They (or at least their owners) seem to like dressing up for Halloween. This year, they tried on many costumes, and receive a wide variety of treats in exchange for their humiliation.

A seemingly innocent photobooth lures subjects in to grab some old-school selfies, then scares them half to death in this simple, yet effective Halloween prank. It never gets old, does it? (Thanks, Eli!)

For the third straight year, Jimmy Kimmel asked parents to play a cruel prank on their kids and tell them they ate all their Halloween candy. Some of these kids are going to be scarred for life. And Kimmel better watch his back.

Leave it to the rocket scientists of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Labs to take pumpkin carving to the next level with these crazy creations from their 1-hour contest. We know it’s a squash, but our favorite has to be the barfing fondue monster.

It took vocalist Dan Buckley about five nights to record all of the 66 different voice tracks he used to create his cover of Danny Elfman’s spooky holiday classic This is Halloween from The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Cyriak is known for making some crazy animations, so we would expect no less from him with the release of his short Halloween clip, showing off his scary new costume. You’re better than us if you don’t jump from your seat.

Nathan Barnatt dusts off the skeleton in his closet and does a little Halloween dance that starts out with his usual liveliness, but gets a little creepy in the middle. The track is from Ryan Gosling & Zack Shields’ Dead Man’s Bones.

Rather than running away in fear, punching pranksters in the face seems to be a common thread in these hilarious reactions to scary pranks which you should not try this Halloween (unless you want to get punched in the face).

(Gore) Conan O’Brien turns off the lights to check out some creepy PC horror games for the Halloween episode of Clueless Gamer. What the heck was with that Slender game? Looks about as thrilling as Penn & Teller’s Desert Bus.

Halloween is almost here, so you’d better be ready to take on all the goblins and monsters soon to be roaming your neighborhood. Mario and Fafa are here to teach us how to survive. Wait. That’s not what this video is about?

(Gore) Start your Halloween celebration early with a very special rendition of the holiday classic Monster Mash, as sung by the characters of The Walking Dead – sorta, kinda. Well at least they deliver on actually mashing some monsters.

YouTuber EdwardsLandingLights is back with another meme-tastic Halloween light show for 2014, syncronizing his home’s outdoor lighting with Ylvis’ ridiculous viral hit The Fox. What the fox say? Gering-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding!

(Gore) Morphsuits and Mark Rober make costumes that work with a mobile app that displays creepy clips, like moving eyes or human organs. The iOS and Android apps are free, so you can use them in your own costumes.

Originally from the Halloween 20th Anniversary VHS Set, this collectible puts a morbid twist on the snow globe. It shows Michael Myers attacking Laurie Strode. Skip to 4:35 in the video to see the globe. Thumbnail image via I-Mockery.

We’re assuming that this was a Halloween costume, but we’ll never know if that was really Aladdin and his flying carpet gliding through campus. Our three wishes: hoverboards, hoverboards, hoverboards.

YouTuber bangakang and his friends brought some goodwill and cheer with their unusual Halloween “costume”. They came as a door – a house? – and gave away treats instead of asking for some.

Apparently the cast of Breaking Bad love their show so much that they stay in character even during Halloween. Just not the ones that they play. Bryan Cranston’s got the Hector frown spot-on.

Let’s take Halloween out with a grin by enjoying Nathan Pryor’s Pumpktris, a fully playable version of Tetris in a pumpkin, with 128 LEDs for the display and bonus game controller stem. (Thanks James!)

This awesome Aliens power loader costume was built by Jason Smith, and makes it look like it’s being piloted not by Ripley, but by his baby daughter. The Alien Queen doesn’t stand a chance.

Most people light up their pumpkins with a little votive candle, but Youtuber DaveHax prefers to fill his with toilet paper and kerosene – resulting in a spectacular, but relatively contained fire show.

Pop violinist Lindsey Sterling returns with her latest clip, a Halloween-themed short filled with dancing zombies – a catchy, modern tribute to Michael Jackson’s Thriller. Needs more Vincent Price.

A fun and Tim Burton-esque Halloween animation done by Auge de Vries by painstakingly carving 400 individual scenes into candle-lit pumpkins and stitching them together frame-by-frame.

Motion design artist Friedrich van Schoor shot footage of spiders running around a scale model, and then projected the shadows through the windows of an actual building.

Liven up a night of jack-o-lantern carving or that upcoming Devil’s Night Halloween bash with one of these. It’s a simple project and we can’t help but feel that pumpkin ales were meant to flow this way.

Villafane Studios claims that it’s “home of the most gorgeous pumpkins on the planet” and from what we’ve seen we believe it. Funny, grotesque and scary, these carvings are a real treat to look at.