11 Crazy Jack-o’-Lanterns to Really Give You the Creeps

Ray Villafane, the master pumpkin carver behind Villafane Studios, brought his skills to bear in creating this frightfully realistic copy of the Predator, from the film of the same name starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Beginning with two 1,800-pound pumpkins, Ray Villafane then transformed the behemoth vegetables into a life-size Halloween sculpture of ruin and terror. Good luck sleeping.

You don’t have to be a professional pumpkin artist to carve a seriously scary work of art. With a little patience, the right tools, and a twisted imagination, you too can create a fanged jack-o’-lantern that will make the little kiddies scream.

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Andy Bergholtz—an accomplished sculptor behind many well-known collectibles for Marvel Comics, Warner Brothers, Lucasfilm, and Hasbro—spent eight hours creating a replica of the Joker so realistic it seems physically threatening.

The winner of ExtremePumpkins.com’s annual Pumpkin Carving Contest, this jack-o’-lantern is particularly creepy. Just look at the hand reaching painfully out of the pumpkin’s cheek! Ouch!

Ray Villafane’s Medusa showcases his fascination with myth, while providing ample material for nightmares of epic proportions. Leave the lights on when you go to bed tonight.

Flesh-eating zombies have overtaken the flesh of this squash…and they’re coming for you next.

This unique pumpkin arrangement presents an unfortunate Halloween whodunnit and proves that some people shouldn’t be trusted near sharp objects.

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Fans of Marvel Comics recognize this alien warrior as a Skrull, an extraterrestrial shape-shifter and bane of the Fantastic Four. This face was sculpted from one pumpkin, without any added pieces, by the professionals at Maniac Pumpkin Carvers.

Had this pumpkin-head considered safety first, his home improvement project might have had a happier ending. 

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Don’t flip your lid over this exposed brain, a clever construction from the Skulladay blog. The smaller white pumpkin “cranium” is housed inside a larger orange pumpkin. 

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