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Halloween Countdown ’08: Whatever-O’-Lantern Contest Results!

We're having a few friends over tonight, mainly to see how much alcohol it will take to make horror movies we've seen 75,000 times continue to seem fresh and exciting. Thanks to the power of a laptop and diverted attention, I'll drop by for the SNT no matter what shape I'm in. A brief scan through the TV listings confirms that there aren't too many spooky movies on tonight, but if you're desperate, check out Return to Halloweentown on Disney at 9 PM EST, and The Crow at 10:30 on TMC. I'm leaning more towards a poker night with the windows open and the jukebox blaring.

Getting down to business, it's time to name the big winners of the Whatever-O'-Lantern contest! For those having trouble remembering the specifics (which would be odd since the specifics are still clearly listed on the main blog page), I challenged everyone to make a jack-o'-lantern out of anything other than a pumpkin. A little over fifty of you gave it a whack.

Choosing a winner was hard. Very hard. While some of the entries featured a nigh-perfect level of execution, others were just so off the wall that it seemed criminal not to pick them. Still, at the end of the day, my eyes kept turning back to one specific entry, not because it took the creator a hundred hours to forge, but because it was the only one that made a swimming pool look Halloweeny...

Your big winner is Wes, who cut up a few garbage bags and floated the pieces over his swimming hole to create the weirdest Whatever-O'-Lantern in X-E history: The "Pool-O'-Lantern!" Wes will be happy to learn than his skill in cutting up garbage bags and floating the pieces over a swimming pool have guaranteed him the grand prize of A Nightmare on Elm Street DVD box set!

Our first runner-up is Emosewa, who created this marvelous spread of random food items with pumpkinny faces carved on. It's the "Smorgasbord-O'-Lantern!" With everything from olive-o'-lanterns to egg-o'-lanterns, I couldn't possibly omit an entry that featured no less than twenty Whatever-O'-Lanterns from the winners' circle. Emosewa wins a random horror DVD of my choosing! Emosewa should pray it isn't Ghoulies IV!

Since I'm apparently a sucker for expedited YouTube videos set to ridiculous music, our second runner-up is Ricky H., for his wonderful "Dancing Pepper-O'-Lanterns" video. Fortunately for Ricky, the second runner-up gets the same prize as the first runner-up.

Congrats to the big winners! After the jump, check out twelve more entries that really warmed my soul. You might think some of 'em are even better than the winning lanterns. As it turns out, making jack-o'-lanterns out of things other than pumpkins is a pretty subjective thing, and it's really difficult to judge. My apologies to all of the non-winners...you still did fantastic and weird work.


"Snacks-O'-Lantern" -- Created by Jerrod


"Ridiculously Gory Fruit-O'-Lantern" -- Created by JJ


"Fan-O'-Lantern" -- Created by James FW


"Pepperidge Farm Goldfish-O'-Lanterns" -- Created by Sharen S.


"Pop Tart-O'-Lantern" -- Created by Steven S.


"Spider Watermelon-O'-Lantern" -- Created by John O.


"Pizza Box-O'-Lantern" -- Created by Matt


"I Don't Know What Kind Of Fruits These Are-O'-Lanterns" -- Created by Polkalessons


"NES Play Action Football-O'Lantern" -- Created by Krepta


"X-Entertainment-O'-Lantern" -- Created by Fox


"Cake-O'-Lantern" -- Created by Thomas & Hoverbored


"Potato & Pineapple-O'-Lanterns" -- Created by Bill

These spotlighted entries were chosen purely at random -- many others were just as amazing, and I'll show you some more of 'em tomorrow!

Posted by Matt on 10/04/2008. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 187 comments

The dancing pepper-o-lanterns are ridiculously cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Chestnuts roasted by Lucky Mesmer @ 10/04/2008 7:57 PM

I find it amazing that someone destroyed a NES cartridge for this contest. He/She should’ve won just on principle. That Spidermelon one is awesome also.

I do know that Halloween 2 and 3 are on back-to-back tonite on HBO Zone starting at 12:40 pm central.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 10/04/2008 7:59 PM

Thank you one and all, especially Matt for choosing my doofy idea as the winner. The garbage bags actually aren’t floating on the surface of the pool. I tried that, but they wouldn’t stay in place long enough. They’re on the bottom of the pool, weighed down by sandwich bags full of blue aquarium gravel.

Chestnuts roasted by Senor Booyah @ 10/04/2008 8:03 PM

senor booyah, that is even more impressive.  that shows true determination and grit.  You are my ShorDurPerSav.

Chestnuts roasted by Rev. Back It On Up 13 @ 10/04/2008 8:06 PM

JLAJRC: That destroyed NES cartridge saddened me as well. I wonder what the gory fruit-o-lantern’s eyeball area is made of? Peeled cherries?

Chestnuts roasted by DarthPez @ 10/04/2008 8:13 PM

Thanks for featuring the cake-o’-lantern, Matt!  The best part was, I got to eat the whole thing myself!… at least I would have if it hadn’t gone stale…

Chestnuts roasted by Hoverbored @ 10/04/2008 8:17 PM

Great entries everybody!  I love the ones with the spooky lighting.  I’m glad that Ruthless Toothless Paul the Pineapple made an appearance.  But Bill, why does whatever o carving need alcohol in your blood?

This last couple of days I have been trying to watch the first Friday the 13th on youtube but I get distracted.  I am going to take a nap (I spent all morning doing a youtube video while I should of been sleeping) and then come back and do SNT while watching it. 

But a couple of days ago I did watch Dr Giggles on youtube so that was cool.  I rented that movie as a kid once, and the other day was the first time seeing it.  I can’t believe the girl that plays piper in charmed and Mark from Roseanne are a couple in that movie.  Wild!  If you are into incredibly cheesy horror movies I suggest looking it up on youtube.  By the end of the movie I was tired of the horrible doctor puns though.  I kept on thinking come on, a killer wouldn’t be that into murdering people with hospital equipment.  Some people he would just flat out choke to death or something.  He doesn’t need to say a cruel joke everytime someone dies, that is my point.

Chestnuts roasted by Goob @ 10/04/2008 8:31 PM

Thanks Goob! Yeah, Paul is in the freezer. I make it a point to have some sort of severed head in the freezer. As far as drinking, I wield a knife a lot better looped. I’m like the Drunken Master.

Chestnuts roasted by Bill @ 10/04/2008 8:46 PM

Goob: I haven’t seen Dr.Giggles since I was a kid. I think it’s good.

Chestnuts roasted by ULTRAMAN @ 10/04/2008 8:47 PM

Senor: Great thinking on your part. That was very creative and just looks awesome.

RailPirate: I may have to find a way to use the polar bear in the next contest then. Oh well another one of lifes lessons…lol

Chestnuts roasted by slick316 @ 10/04/2008 8:47 PM

Ultraman: I would watch it now and then decide if it’s good or not.  I watched it when I was about 10 and at the time I thought it was creepy, scary and well made.  I think it’s because as a society we are told to blindly trust doctors and the thought of a doctor murdering you just for amusement was an extremely scary thought.  It was the first time I saw a condom too.  So yes watching that movie brought back some vivid memories.

Chestnuts roasted by Goob @ 10/04/2008 9:00 PM

anyone watching Return to Halloweentown?

Chestnuts roasted by snot @ 10/04/2008 9:01 PM

Hot damn! Made it to the runners-up again!

JamesFW: Sorry, my dogs got to eat the sausage o’lantern.

Chestnuts roasted by Jerrod @ 10/04/2008 9:02 PM

cause boy howdy if not, don’t start:  it looks completely horrible, and not in the good way

Chestnuts roasted by snot @ 10/04/2008 9:05 PM

come on!  the first SNT i’m here for and no one else is?

Chestnuts roasted by snot @ 10/04/2008 9:11 PM

Chill out, in an hour or two they’ll be a conversation.  Around 11 it’s busier.

Chestnuts roasted by Goob @ 10/04/2008 9:12 PM

hahaha. ok i will chill out.

Chestnuts roasted by snot @ 10/04/2008 9:15 PM

Congratulations to the winners, and to all the other entrants. Great work everyone…some really cleveer ideas in there. I really liked JJ’s gory fruit-o-lantern (with hanging eyeball!!) and polkalesson’s old Russian couple, even though both entries finished out of the money.

Chestnuts roasted by Flush it all away @ 10/04/2008 9:25 PM

snot: Actually, I did watch Halloweentown High last night. I won’t lie; I enjoyed myself.

Chestnuts roasted by McF @ 10/04/2008 9:26 PM

Goob: Iv’e seen Dr. Giggles a few times since the first time when I was kid, and I still think it’s a good horror flick.  Also that’s a pretty interesting way of lookin at the movie. And I agree, people trust doctors way too much.   Welp, i’m about to pop in some Leatherface and chow down on a philly cheese steak sammich, while enjoyin some Mountain Dew Revolution. =) Once again HAPPY SNT Y’ALL!!!

Chestnuts roasted by ULTRAMAN @ 10/04/2008 9:29 PM

damn.  i just wikied Halloweentown, and it’s a 4-movie series, starting in ’98.
this doesn’t make it any more appealing, though.

Chestnuts roasted by snot @ 10/04/2008 9:32 PM

Just watched the first Halloweentown movie via YooToob.  Meh, twas a decent yarn, but by far not a classic.

Chestnuts roasted by Captain Will @ 10/04/2008 10:09 PM

Whoa.  Sacrificing an NES game for the greater good. (X-E being the greater good, of course)

Watching ‘Halloween’ with the boyfriend right NOW.  Couldn;t wait any longer.  Gonna show it in my Secondary 4 English class, as a perfect example of ‘Slasher film’.  

Damn – wish I had the time to enter this one.  Please, Matt – tell me there will be more contests to come! (Best costume, perhaps…??)

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 10/04/2008 10:17 PM

Great entries everybody!I couldm’t put anything together for this one but maybe the next contest will be coming up soon.

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 10/04/2008 10:18 PM

SNT, FTW.
 
Hello my peeps~

Chestnuts roasted by Neg @ 10/04/2008 10:19 PM

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