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Halloween Wars S15E04 (2025)
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00:00Previously on Halloween Wars...
00:03We made a six pack.
00:04Oven Coven slaughtered the competition to come out on top.
00:07The sugar one draws your eye in.
00:10While Wicked Sculptor's sugar spotlight failed and nearly sent them home.
00:14One, two, three.
00:15Now the final four teams attack the pumpkin spotlight.
00:19Pumpkin all day. Pumpkin all day, every day.
00:21I want everybody to be intimidated by the size of this thing.
00:23This pumpkin is massive. You know this is a pumpkin challenge, right?
00:26And take a stab at getting one step closer to $25,000.
00:31We have to step up our game.
00:33Halloween Wars starts right now.
00:42Team's poisonous perfection, under cakers, Oven Coven, and Wicked Sculptors.
00:48Surviving this Halloween War takes blood, guts, and hopefully more blood.
00:56That's what makes it so much fun.
00:58So to amp up the fun even more today, you're gonna put a spooky slant on a popular word game.
01:05Each of you will be given a noun, an adverb, and because this is Halloween Wars, a monster.
01:13Take those three words and create the most spine-tingling scene you can imagine.
01:19For your tasting element, you'll find a trio of assigned ingredients back at your stations.
01:26And you must combine all three.
01:30Wow, dude.
01:32In the skill spotlight today, the pumpkin carvers.
01:36Ooh!
01:38Your assigned monster must be carved entirely out of pumpkin.
01:43Wow!
01:45Seven hours!
01:46Game on!
01:47Go!
01:48Oh!
01:50Watch out!
01:51What's in the box?
01:52What's in the box?
01:53Mummy.
01:54Awkwardly.
01:55Cat.
01:56Okay.
01:58Frankenstein.
01:59Cautiously loved.
02:01That's all me.
02:02Werewolf, blood, and anxious.
02:04What do we got?
02:05Since we're focusing on pumpkins, you know, the werewolf is gonna have to be made completely out of pumpkins.
02:09Yeah.
02:10Are you nervous?
02:11That's good.
02:12It's gonna be fine.
02:13It's gonna be great.
02:14It's gonna be great.
02:15Is he anxious about not wanting to turn?
02:16Yeah.
02:17Maybe.
02:18Maybe he's got a family and he doesn't want to turn.
02:20A husband and wife build a shack where they lock him up every full moon before he turns into a werewolf.
02:26On this night, he had already started turning and the wife was anxiously trying to lock him away.
02:33What kind of things are bravely associated with hair?
02:36What if he was waxing?
02:39Waxing?
02:40I mean, it hurts.
02:41It hurts a lot.
02:42You have to be brave for that.
02:43Exactly.
02:44We decide to convey the bravely adverb by making our vampire not necessarily enjoying this waxing.
02:51He is bravely deciding to sit down and endure the pain of the waxing.
02:56Did you guys realize we're in like the top four?
02:58And it's pumpkin.
02:59And it's pumpkin.
03:00Lots of pressure.
03:02Have you ever tried taking a cat for a walk?
03:04No.
03:05No.
03:07It is very awkward because they don't want to go anywhere.
03:11We've decided to have a mummy with his two cats.
03:14They are scared of a baby dressed in a dog costume and some other things cats are afraid of.
03:19Like cucumbers, tin foil, water.
03:22And the mummy is awkwardly trying to bring them back together.
03:25He's a mummy, so you're going to need a lot of wrapping.
03:27Lots of wrapping.
03:28All right, Dave, this is all you.
03:30This is the big show, Frankenstein, all out of pumpkin.
03:33I'm thinking like almost like a four foot Frankenstein.
03:36How do you feel about cautiously?
03:38Maybe he has a pet.
03:39Maybe he has a pet.
03:40Frankenstein has always searched for unconditional love.
03:43So he's decided to cautiously create his own little fur baby, Sonny, in hopes that it will love him back.
03:48And the solar panels will charge up Sonny for Frankenstein.
03:51All right, ready?
03:52Let's go.
03:53One, two, two, two.
03:54Final three.
03:55Final three.
03:56Go, go, go, go.
03:57Perfect.
03:58Let's go.
03:59I'm going to roll my pumpkin in.
04:00You get your little hands off.
04:01Yeah.
04:02I feel like Quasimodo.
04:04Incoming.
04:06One, two, three.
04:08Girl power.
04:10Okay.
04:11I'm working on the tree branches right now.
04:14So this is critical because we need to get this completely coated in chocolate.
04:18We're going to cover our CT and then do a finish of brown icing.
04:23And then we'll put it on the board so that we can get our characters up.
04:27Last week, we didn't do so good in the sugar spotlight.
04:30We almost went home.
04:31So this week, we need to come back strong, show the judges what they know we can do.
04:36This week, we've been given not just two, but three ingredients.
04:40Chocolate, dates, and cardamom.
04:43Oh, I cannot forget cardamom.
04:45Three ingredients is so difficult because you have to balance all three flavors and make sure they all shine through.
04:51And with cardamom, it's really potent, and I'm not really sure how that's going to pair with everything else.
04:57That smells cardamomy.
04:58So I'm going to stick to what I know, which is cake.
05:01I'm going to make a chocolate and cardamom orange cake soaked in a sticky toffee with dates with a dark chocolate ganache and an orange Italian buttercream.
05:11Two years ago, I got eliminated in my first episode.
05:14My tasting element was fantastic, though.
05:16And then last year, got third place.
05:20At this point, if I don't win, it's starting to get pathetic and sad.
05:24Okay, cake is going in the oven.
05:26Pumpkin spotlight, that means that I'm going to be, I'm going to have to do a lot of pumpkin.
05:31And that means that I have to build a really, really strong armature or structure to hold my pumpkins so that they don't come toppling down.
05:39There's a lot of pressure, even if we have an incredible scene, but my element that I build isn't the spotlight, we could still go home.
05:48Because we have the word awkwardly, our character needs to look awkward.
05:53Rebecca wants this character to have a lot of movement and to be mid-pose.
05:58Starting on pumpkin now.
05:59To make the mummy structure, I'm taking big pieces of a large pumpkin, flattening one side and gluing that onto my structure.
06:06He's looking beautiful right now.
06:08We got vampire, and I have to make him all out of pumpkin.
06:12This week is definitely the week that I want to kill it and want to take in a win for our team.
06:18I'm going to carve our main character as a vampire, who is going to be getting waxed.
06:23Paulina's already hard at work.
06:25She's using butternut squash, slicing it in half, and using that as the limbs.
06:30We really want to learn from last week's challenge and make sure that we're able to sculpt with an item.
06:37Butternut squash has a natural shape that mimics the different body parts, so I think that it will allow me to get the shapes of the body really quickly.
06:47How's it going on the chair?
06:48It's going well.
06:49Excellent.
06:50I'm at the cushion right now.
06:52You cannot be standing getting waxed.
06:54So Kareen is starting on the chair out of rice cereal treat and fondant, and Jamie is putting together our door to the wax salon.
07:03I actually poured my hot ice malt onto a vinyl sheet, and that vinyl sheet is a little bit more heavy duty, and you get like crazy clear ice malt pour when you do that.
07:13Oh, look how clear my window is.
07:15Wow.
07:16I am starting with the nicest pumpkin I have seen in a long time.
07:22He's beautiful, and he's really thick.
07:25It's a big week for me, and I am very nervous about it because it's like if I don't perform and we go home, I'm going to feel like it's all on my head.
07:34These are going to be the legs of the werewolf.
07:37I've never done a standing piece before, and it's got to be solid, and it's got to hold up to the weight of the pumpkin.
07:43Marg, it's all you today.
07:45I'm feeling the pressure this week because I'm doing a figure out of pumpkin, and I do armatures, but usually it's just the head that's the pumpkin, not the rest of the body.
07:54So anything can go wrong, and everything might go wrong.
07:57This is the pumpkin spotlight, so I've got to bring it home.
08:00You're going to kill it.
08:01We're going to kill it.
08:02I think everyone in this building is younger than my kids.
08:07Younger than your kids?
08:08Younger than my kids.
08:09Not younger than me.
08:10Younger than my kids.
08:11I'm pretty sure.
08:12How old are your kids?
08:14My oldest son is going to be 45.
08:17So there you go.
08:19Okay.
08:20I like being young.
08:22Marg is so badass.
08:24Like, she's 67, and she's doing this on, like, girl.
08:28Amazing.
08:29Amazing.
08:30I'm going to go ahead and do the trees.
08:33I will be doing the backdrop.
08:35I'll get the door going, okay?
08:36And Nails is going to start off with a door made out of sugar.
08:39So I'm just cutting these to fit the 12-inch things.
08:43So I'm just torching the knife a little bit, making a score, tapping it off.
08:47These are the rivets to accentuate to show that the door is extra reinforced.
08:53Last week, it was my spotlight.
08:55This week, it's Margie.
08:56She hasn't really made big standing pieces yet, right?
09:00So, but I said, don't worry.
09:02And it's in her hands, and I'm here to cover the spread.
09:06Right now, I'm preparing the sugar to pour into the windows.
09:10Kim starts with the backdrop, and we've decided we want to kind of have a warehouse feel.
09:15I am starting with our carrot cake.
09:18Our ingredients that we got were carrot, ginger, and caramel.
09:22Natalie is known for her complex tasting elements.
09:25She's creating a layered ginger carrot cake with a smoked bourbon pecan caramel and a butterscotch buttercream.
09:32And surprise in this one, our tasting element is actually going to be the Franken-fur baby.
09:36I have some fresh ginger that I'm going to grate just to finish in my carrot cake and get that in the oven.
09:42I'm excited about the flavors because they all do go together very well,
09:45but they can be challenging because sometimes the carrot can get lost,
09:49or the ginger can be overpowering, or it can just end up being too sweet, which I don't like.
09:54So hopefully, we can mellow it all out and marry them together nicely.
09:59Put this in the oven.
10:01We're in the final four.
10:02We want to be in the final three.
10:03We're coming off a win.
10:05They put me in my element, the pumpkin spotlight.
10:07I'm going to start off by cutting off a big chunk for Frankenstein's chest.
10:12This is the pumpkin spotlight.
10:13It's got to blow the judges away.
10:15I want to go huge.
10:16I'm going to carve the biggest Frankenstein that Halloween Wars has ever seen.
10:20But before I can even start carving this pumpkin, I got to get all the pieces onto our structure.
10:25This is my 12-year reunion at Halloween Wars.
10:28From season three to season 15.
10:31I don't have the trophy on my wall yet.
10:33To finally win Halloween Wars is like the apex pumpkin title.
10:37Pretty much the most important competition of our craft.
10:42It would mean everything.
10:43So winning is absolutely vital.
10:46Making a Franken-Punkin.
10:50Yes.
10:51Teams, six hours left.
10:53All right, let's go, guys.
10:55Already six.
10:56We're in really great shape today because I think these are some of the strongest carvers we've had to date.
11:02So this is going to be a tough competition for us to judge because I think they're all going to be bringing it.
11:11What do you think?
11:12Do you think this one's a little better?
11:13I prefer the biggest one.
11:14The one on your left?
11:15Yeah, the biggest.
11:16Yeah, the bigger one.
11:17Yeah.
11:18We have to convey the bravely adverb.
11:20You're a machine today.
11:21I mean, come and look at David.
11:23Why is he so slow?
11:24I mean, we can't all be winners, okay?
11:27We got a whole figure without a head already.
11:30Well.
11:31Well.
11:32I'll work on it.
11:33I'll get back to you.
11:35I'm making the vampire's face right now, and we're making a face that is kind of in pain.
11:42He's kind of braving out, getting waxed.
11:45So what's super exciting about Halloween Wars is most of the time when I'm carving for clients,
11:50we're kind of doing, like, business things and locos, and I don't get to do creepy things as much.
11:57So I love the creativity and the free brain.
12:00I'm a professional pumpkin carver by night and a paralegal at a law office by day.
12:05I would love to have that Halloween Wars champion title to really help boost my business and, in turn, support my family.
12:13I would love to be able to carve and sculpt full time.
12:16Oh, look at his face.
12:17It's so good.
12:18Five hours to go.
12:19What?
12:20You guys in a good spot?
12:21Yep.
12:22So right now I am making the caramel sauce and the butterscotch.
12:25For my smoked bourbon, that's going to be mixed with some pecans.
12:29That's smoky.
12:30Our assigned ingredients are carrots, ginger, and caramel.
12:34Natalie is creating a layered ginger carrot cake with a smoked bourbon pecan caramel layer and a butterscotch buttercream.
12:41I've worked for a lot of really high-end restaurants where I had to create the menu and come up with different techniques and different elements and just constantly making new desserts.
12:53So I think with this tasting element, I have that experience of working with different flavors and being able to really create something unique.
13:02I love the idea of a little bit of smoke in here just to break up those flavors that sort of feel kind of familiar to us.
13:09Yeah.
13:10I think it's really, really intelligent.
13:11The spice of the ginger and then the earthiness of the carrots.
13:14I think this is going to be very interesting.
13:16I'm cautiously optimistic.
13:18I'm anxiously waiting.
13:20I am bravely approaching this.
13:24This is going to be a good round.
13:26Looks more like a pig.
13:28The basic body shape looks like a cat.
13:30Okay.
13:31Sabrina is responsible for our cats and our baby character, made out of rice cereal and modeling chocolate.
13:37So we're just going to cover him with the modeling chocolate.
13:40Awesome.
13:41Afterwards, we can sculpt and add details.
13:44I think I'm feeling okay.
13:46There's a lot of progress on my mommy.
13:48I'm going to start carving this very like grotesque mummy face.
13:52It's going to be like a skull under the wrap.
13:54I'm an artist by trade.
13:56I used to teach high school art.
13:58Got out of that.
13:59Now I'm a woodworker and I work as a tattoo artist.
14:03In this realm, I do feel like I need to kind of prove myself and show that I can like run with the big dogs and do what everybody else is doing and like maybe make a name for myself in the pumpkin carving world.
14:17I'm going to get started on the tasting element.
14:20A little melted butter.
14:21Here we go.
14:22My ingredients are cranberry, orange, and clove.
14:25But when you're given three different ingredients, you really have to figure out how to make them all be standalone ingredients but dance together.
14:32So we're going to go with a nice crunchy spice graham crust with the clove.
14:35We're going to do a nice silky white chocolate orange zest vanilla mousse.
14:39And then we're going to top it with whole candy cranberries and a little bit of candy gingers.
14:43We're mixing the chocolate into the egg yolks, the heavy cream, vanilla beans, and orange zest.
14:49Had the orange zest in the heavy cream to sort of help that flavor develop a bunch.
14:54Going to the freezer.
14:56Okay.
14:57Here we go.
14:58Get these sugared.
14:59Coat those in a little bit of egg whites.
15:01You don't want to do too much.
15:02Just enough to shine them.
15:04And then sugar.
15:05Nils is doing this cool technique where he's sugaring the cranberries and bakes them.
15:10I think so that we can get the pop of biting into the cranberry but still like a bit of the crunch from the sugar.
15:15Yeah.
15:16Wow.
15:17In we go.
15:18Right now I poured the initial sun and now I'm making the rays that come off from it.
15:24So I'm going to pull these and then attach it to the sun.
15:28So this is what we refer to affectionately as pumpkin bacon.
15:31It even looks like bacon.
15:33This stuff covers any gaps, makes your seams disappear.
15:36This pumpkin is massive.
15:38I want everybody carving pumpkin to look over and be intimidated by the size of this thing.
15:42But carving these big pumpkin monsters, it takes time.
15:45It's got to be precise.
15:46All the proportions have to be on.
15:48All right, we got to have Frankenstein's neck.
15:50He's got to have the bolts in his neck.
15:52If we're going to make the biggest pumpkin monster here, he's got to be accurate.
15:55I'll double stress the biggest monster here.
15:58I mean, this is crazy.
15:59It's like three times bigger than anybody else's here that I can see.
16:02You know this is a pumpkin challenge, right?
16:04You guys know that?
16:05Just wanted to make sure everybody was clear.
16:08You know, we were all here for the announcement.
16:10Thanks, David.
16:11Oh, David.
16:12He's crazy.
16:13Did I mention that these pumpkin monsters are itty bitty?
16:15Yes, David, we see that.
16:17We know.
16:18Did anybody catch that?
16:19I am starting on the dessert.
16:21So for our tasty ingredients, we got maple, rum, and apple.
16:25This is a little bit of rum extract to like kick up the rum even more because I got to make the flavors stand apart from each other.
16:32I'm making a maple butterscotch budino with a rum caramelized apple compote and a cornflake crunch.
16:41I'm going to be making a maple butterscotch pudding.
16:45So right now I'm cooking maple sugar and I want to cook it to like almost the point of caramel so you get a nice deep flavor inside of our butterscotch pudding.
16:54Jamie is making our tasting element look like slugs because the slug slime is used for the waxing.
17:02Good old slug innards.
17:04My only concern when I look at what Jamie's making is, is this going to eat a little sweet?
17:09She's using butterscotch and maple and rum and apple.
17:14That's a lot of sweetness in one bite.
17:16I'm just going to run this to the freezer.
17:19My mummy doesn't look like a mummy yet, but it's coming together.
17:23For our tasting elements, we got dates, cardamom, and chocolate.
17:27So I'm going to be making a chocolate cake and then a sticky toffee date soak for the cake and an orange buttercream.
17:37I am using all brown butter today for flavor.
17:41Brown sugar.
17:42We got our toffee soak right here.
17:45Looks beautiful.
17:47I really hope that they're not just going to use the date as like a sweetener.
17:51Once you take that texture out of the equation, it is hard to spot it as a date.
17:56So I'm hoping that Emily uses some of the texture of the date in her tasting element so we get a bit of that chew.
18:04Something that really helps us understand, date is the star here.
18:08Our piece is mummy and cats.
18:11And so we've decided that they're going to be walking in the park and the cats are freaking out because there's a baby there.
18:17But just for a little bit of fun, we have a trash can in our park.
18:21Trash can is almost done.
18:23I'm going to paint it silver.
18:25Only four hours on the clock.
18:27We got this.
18:28We got this.
18:29We do.
18:30We do.
18:31Okay.
18:32So I'm just working on the head, the nose.
18:33I'm going to get that on in a minute.
18:34I'm going to start putting on the fur.
18:36To make the fur texture for the werewolf, I'm using serrated potato peeler that you would make ripple chips with.
18:42And I'm digging into the pumpkin.
18:44So I just want fur, you know, maybe a little bit here, a little bit there.
18:48Then I take a V cutter and I go backwards so that some ends will stick up and hopefully they'll all look like they're one.
18:56So how are we going to make anxious come across on this?
18:58I think the wife, you know, she's anxious that she's not going to be able to close the door in time and it's already in full mood and he's already turning, you know?
19:05We want to feel very worried.
19:07I want to bring out the fear in her face and the worry because, you know, she's trying to hurry up and get the door closed before his transformation starts.
19:15Okay, I'm covering the back of her head brown and then we put her on the wall.
19:19I almost hear anxiety more than I see it, right?
19:22Absolutely.
19:23You can sense someone's breathing, they make noises, and so this is a difficult one.
19:26And interestingly enough, this team has chosen to put that not in the main character, but in the supporting character.
19:34I think it's risky.
19:38There you go.
19:39She's on.
19:40She looks worried.
19:41Anxiety.
19:42We have the werewolf in the front.
19:44We have his wife, who is the anxious character, but she's in the back towards the door.
19:48So I'm worried that they're putting a lot of that attention in the back where we may not see it.
19:53I want the wife to be the anxious one.
19:55I feel like it would be difficult to make the werewolf look like he's anxious.
19:59Like, what is he going to be scared of?
20:01I'm going to use buttercream for her dress to make it 2D to go into the background.
20:07The wife running for the doorknob will also be partly 3D because I'll be making the wife's head.
20:13But her dress will be blended into the backdrop, so I'll make that part 2D out of buttercream.
20:18And her hands or legs will be reaching out, made out of modeling chocolate.
20:22Let me do one more throw for her dress, actually.
20:25Yep, that's fine.
20:26Teams, you're looking at 3 hours.
20:273 hours left.
20:28No!
20:29We got this.
20:30Oh, my God.
20:31There's 4 teams left, so we have to step up our game.
20:34We are making wings for our little flying goblins.
20:38Our little goblins are going to be the ones that are waxing our vampire.
20:43I'm using rice paper to make my wings.
20:46I'm using water to make it more flexible, then I'm drying it back.
20:50I'm going to install these little devices that are flapping wings.
20:54To build our goblins, Karine is placing the wing mechanism on top of the body,
21:00and then she's using rice cereal treat and candy melts to really firm it up,
21:05and then placing modeling chocolate over all of it.
21:08I'm going to try to attach my first set of wings.
21:14I need to know if it's working.
21:19Oh!
21:23Ta-da!
21:25Ta-da!
21:26I am working on coloring our vampire.
21:31Okay.
21:32We need to put him on.
21:33Yes.
21:34Yes.
21:35We have to put him on.
21:36Oh.
21:37Up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up.
21:39Okay.
21:40And stop.
21:41He's there.
21:43I need to put the hair on my guy.
21:47Okay.
21:48Making him hairy is important.
21:49Yes.
21:50So our three words that we got were vampire, bravely, and hair.
21:55So he has to have hair.
21:57So I'm using a tool I have to just pull up a little bit of the pumpkin to make it look like he has hair coming off his arms.
22:05And then we're going to just paint the tips of those blacks so that it's very contrasting.
22:10I'm really selling that he's hairy.
22:12Yes.
22:13More hair.
22:14More hair.
22:15Um, still got to paint that a mummy.
22:18What's your goal for starting to paint?
22:20I'd like to start painting it as soon as I can, but I don't have everything fully wrapped yet.
22:24Rebecca has so much to do.
22:26She's using very thin sheets of pumpkin and wrapping that around as the mummy wrappings.
22:32But we also want to make an isomalt pumpkin fountain.
22:35What can I help with?
22:36How do you feel about cutting into some pumpkins?
22:39You know what?
22:40I've never carved pumpkins.
22:41Do you want me to teach you some pumpkin ways?
22:43Yeah, tell me what to do.
22:44All right.
22:45If you can, kind of maybe trace it around on the tabletop surface.
22:50I'm still so focused on the mummy, I can't step away from that right now.
22:54So for the fountain, I'm having Emerly cut my pumpkins.
22:57Pumpkin!
22:58It would be cool to be like the first person to do this show as like a sugar artist, a cake artist, and a pumpkin carver.
23:05Three pumpkins.
23:07Beautiful.
23:09Last time, it felt like their board was a little empty.
23:12Now I'm like, this is going to be a very full scene because now there's this gigantic fountain.
23:17Not only is there a fountain, not only are there two cats and the mummy, but there's also got to be that little boy.
23:23And he's got to fit in there somewhere.
23:25What do we think?
23:26It is beautiful!
23:29These strips are because he's transitioning and he's ripping off his T-shirt.
23:33It says T-shirt is going to be shredded from hand to hand.
23:36Three new things that I've never done before.
23:38The big armature.
23:39The airbrushing.
23:40And animals.
23:41I refuse to do animals of any sort.
23:44And yet here I am doing an animal.
23:47The Under Cakers.
23:48Margie is really far along with her werewolf character.
23:52I'm really impressed with Margie.
23:53I mean, I love that she's going outside of her comfort zone.
23:56She's doing twice the work that she normally has done thus far, right?
24:01Normally she just gives us the head.
24:03She's doing a body and a head and she's making good time here.
24:07Just make sure your dude is popping off.
24:10It's pumpkin all day.
24:11Pumpkin all day, every day.
24:13Well, right now I'm making the fur baby's face and I'm just using Mr. Pointy, my favorite tool, to just kind of put some details.
24:23So he has a pig nose and we're working on allies right now.
24:26With a ginger carrot cake, Kim and Natalie are both trying to make the most lovable little Franken-fur baby on the planet.
24:32It's got all kinds of different parts, just like Frankenstein.
24:35He's got a koi fish tail.
24:37I'm actually using a pumpkin carving tool to make the little scales.
24:41They do have Frankenstein's pet.
24:43I hope Natalie and David are communicating, right, so that the Franken-pet doesn't look too, too tiny compared to Frankenstein's monster.
24:51I think I'm going to want to take this pet home.
24:54I know.
24:55But you can't because he's the tasting element.
24:58I know.
24:59We got a pumpkin monster that's almost three times bigger than anybody else's.
25:04We said pumpkin spotlight.
25:05They gave us pumpkin spotlight.
25:06I see a giant is what I see.
25:08Massive.
25:09A giant of a Franken-man.
25:11My one concern for David is because he is so huge, that means more paint, more texture, more detailing than any other character in the room.
25:20And TikTok, we don't have that much time.
25:23There's less than two hours left.
25:25And my favorite part, the most intricate part, the head, I haven't even started it.
25:29I realize I'm going to have to sacrifice a lot of the intricate details that I love to do just to get a finished piece up.
25:35Fastest head ever carved.
25:37We have to convey cautiously.
25:38At this point, I'm just trying to get a face in general.
25:41I know I'm sacrificing not only detail, but maybe the chance to get cautiously really conveyed in his emotions.
25:47He's looking like Frankie.
25:48He's getting there.
25:49Yep.
25:52Serena, how you doing?
25:53We're oranging up the cat.
25:55Serena tends to want to put a lot of time and detail work into her characters, but we don't have several hours to spend on each cat.
26:03Where's the cat face?
26:04Serena needs to sculpt both of our cats' faces, but she's taking too long painting that, so Rebecca has to step in and handle that.
26:12But she still needs to finish her mummy.
26:15But what can I help for a little bit?
26:17Can we do this?
26:18I need him brushed.
26:19With white?
26:20With white?
26:21Yeah.
26:22So I step in to help.
26:23So I've been doing a lot.
26:25Emerly is making a ton of progress, and the stress of not making all of the progress that we need from all three team players is really weighing on us.
26:33I am working on the shape of the baby that's crawling towards our cats.
26:38You need to do its face.
26:40It's just a blob.
26:41A blob.
26:42Because it's in a costume anyways.
26:43You don't see feet.
26:44Okay.
26:45Okay.
26:46Serena's literally been working on the bottom half of the blob legs for like 20 minutes.
26:50Okay, what's going on over here?
26:51Well, we can't attach the limbs until he's on the board.
26:54It doesn't need to be attached.
26:55Why does it need to be attached?
26:56It just sits on top.
26:57Pick it all up.
26:58Carry it separate.
26:59Nothing needs to be attached.
27:00It just needs to be able to get over here when it's ready.
27:02Okay.
27:03Okay.
27:04So we need the face.
27:05Okay.
27:06I need you to work faster, please.
27:09Okay.
27:10I'm going to start pouring ice out for the fountain.
27:13One hour left.
27:14You have one hour.
27:15Oh my God.
27:16Can you believe it?
27:18No.
27:19Serena?
27:20Can you work a little bit faster?
27:22We're running out of time.
27:23I'm trying.
27:24Just have the cover on brown.
27:29Okay.
27:30Okay.
27:31It's a little rough.
27:32The baby is a really important element to help tell our story and it is not looking good.
27:38It doesn't look great.
27:41So what can we do?
27:42It's a little rough.
27:46It definitely needs color.
27:48Are you going to be able to handle that?
27:50Maybe.
27:51I think Serena has gotten really bogged down with the details and has not been able to
27:56get everything that she needs to finished.
27:58Emily, we should get rid of the dog.
28:00The baby face, it's just not working well.
28:03Okay.
28:04Serena, I think this is taking too long.
28:06So let's go ahead and take that out.
28:08Maybe add a little bit more water.
28:10I think that will really help to sell what we already have.
28:12Okay.
28:13Sound good?
28:14Sounds great.
28:15Okay.
28:16Let's do this.
28:17And we have to drop a character.
28:19Unfortunately, time just got a hold of me.
28:22But I still think we have a very strong piece.
28:24I am making cucumbers out of blown isomal.
28:29We don't have the baby character, but I think with the cucumbers and we're going to have trash that's
28:34wafer paper, tin foil made out of chocolate, and the water.
28:37That will be enough to tell a full story.
28:39Almost finished with the cucumbers.
28:41And then I'll finish up the tin foil and let's fill up the trash can.
28:44Okay.
28:45I need to get to the trash can.
28:4730 minutes on the clock.
28:49It's a little thin, but it's working.
28:52Come on, just do two coats.
28:54I got to get the color on this thing.
28:56But there's highlights and shadows.
28:58Something this big sounded really good on paper.
29:00But at this point, I'm not so sure it was a good idea.
29:02Let's talk about Oven Coven.
29:04It just looks completely, like, monotoned.
29:08Yeah.
29:09It looks muddy.
29:10You know, the Frankenstein's monster, we're always associating that character with, like, a green face and a black suit.
29:15And right now, head to toe, he looks the same color.
29:18So I'm covering my cake in modeling chocolate so I can start hand-painting it to look like pieces of steak.
29:28Our three words were werewolf, anxiously, and blood.
29:32And we still need to make the blood.
29:34So on the floor would be the werewolf food, which would be steak covered with blood.
29:39We're making a giant hollow ham.
29:41It's a ham cloche.
29:42And we're gonna make it so the dessert can go under it.
29:45I'm taking rice cereal treats, nonstick sprayed the bowl.
29:48Gonna shape it out like a ham, cover it in chocolate.
29:51And then Tanisha's gonna spray it to look like a giant ham.
29:54Five minutes left.
29:55Five minutes.
29:56Only three.
29:57Oh, no.
29:58This is not good.
29:59You're okay?
30:00You're okay?
30:01I am freaking out.
30:02I'm working on making some used waxing strips with gelatin-treated wafer paper and some corn silk
30:09for extra disgusting hair awesomeness.
30:13It's really gross.
30:14We're gonna put him on, yeah?
30:16Yes.
30:17Like, push him in as far as you can, yeah?
30:20Like, yeah.
30:21I'm making our solar panels right now.
30:29One minute!
30:30We need to airbrush some of the cats.
30:33Just pick up the pace a little bit.
30:34Oh, I'm just, I'm trying to make his knuckles, like, even wider.
30:37Yeah.
30:38Almost done.
30:39Did you try that blush brush?
30:40Watch.
30:41Like, go in and act like you're, like, highlighting him.
30:44Like, you're highlighting his cheekbones.
30:46Let me try it.
30:47Let me just turn.
30:48Come on.
30:49Put some makeup on.
30:50Yep.
30:51Just shine him up.
30:52Just lighten him up.
30:5310.
30:54Spilled blood.
30:559.
30:56So disgusting.
30:578.
30:58If you can get the picture.
30:597.
31:006.
31:01Clean up work.
31:025.
31:03I'm gonna get the tasting element ready.
31:054.
31:063.
31:07That's so nasty.
31:082.
31:09Panic mug.
31:10Panic mug.
31:11Panic mug.
31:121.
31:13Time's up.
31:15Great job.
31:17Yeah.
31:18Your ovens look so good.
31:19Sorry to thank such a mess.
31:20It was way too much pumpkin.
31:21I'm sorry.
31:22It shows, it shows light.
31:23Same.
31:24Sorry.
31:25If anything bad happens, it's my fault.
31:27I'll take, I'll own it.
31:28Up and coming.
31:29You played the Halloween Wars word game.
31:30What words did you get?
31:31The fun words.
31:32Frankenstein, cautiously, and love.
31:35Frankenstein has been cautiously looking for love his entire existence.
31:49He's gonna give it one last try and create his own love.
31:52His little Franken-fur baby.
31:53He even has to cautiously rely on solar power to power his little buddy.
31:58Frankenstein is all pumpkin, every bit.
32:00Fur baby is made of cake, as well as sugar solar panels with a little bit of cake.
32:06Sugar backdrop with the sun, all the sugar windows.
32:09David, you definitely went gigantic with your pumpkin.
32:12My favorite part of your character is actually the fact that you used the pumpkin shell for the hair.
32:17It looks super believable.
32:19Listen, this is such a large pumpkin piece that you went with the size, but not as much into the detail.
32:25When we think of Frankenstein's monster, we instantly think of like a darker suit and then like that recognizable iconic green face.
32:31So the color breakup is just not enough contrast for us.
32:35That Franken pet is so stinking cute.
32:39This.
32:40This.
32:41Why does this do it for everybody?
32:43It's at one ear and you're like, oh, I'll take you home.
32:46I think that there's some like implied caution here just because the pet is so small and so cute and he is so big and so large.
32:54So there's an implication there, but I think that you guys really could have put a finer point on it.
32:59What were your tasting elements you got?
33:00We got ginger, caramel and carrot.
33:03Right, Artie, go kill the animal.
33:05No, I'm just kidding.
33:06So I made for you today a ginger carrot cake with a smoked bourbon pecan caramel and then a butterscotch buttercream.
33:14Natalie, this cake is super moist.
33:17There are chunks of carrots in here, so that adds another texture.
33:20It's definitely leaning on the sweeter side, especially with the smoked caramelized pecans as well.
33:26I think I'm missing a little bit of the ginger.
33:28This is a delicious carrot cake.
33:30I think because you've got this added element of these smoky pecans, which are delicious.
33:35I don't know that the gingers stood a chance to really show up.
33:39Oven coming, thank you very much.
33:41Thank you guys.
33:43Wow.
33:44Good job.
33:45Good job.
33:46Wicked sculptors.
33:47What were your words?
33:48Mummy, awkwardly and cats.
33:51So Murgatroyd, he really enjoys spending his days curled up with his cats, but he decided to take them for a walk.
33:59Little did he know that they would encounter a trash can full of the thing that they are most afraid of.
34:04Murgatroyd is trying awkwardly to get them to continue their walk.
34:08Murgatroyd is made completely out of pumpkin, as is the fountain basins.
34:13There's isomalt as the cucumbers and the water.
34:17And the cats are made of rice cereal treats, coated in modeling chocolate.
34:21Tonight is the pumpkin spotlight.
34:24And Rebecca, I love your pumpkin character.
34:27I love all the parts of the body that are revealed outside of the wrapping, like the ribs here, you know, because of the crop top he's wearing.
34:34I see the awkward in his face, but because he got rid of the baby character, there's a big blank space in the front.
34:41If you had moved your armature or moved your character closer to the front, we wouldn't be left with such an empty spot in the front there.
34:48For me, one of the most successful parts of this entire display is that jaw.
34:54To me, that's like, like, to me, that's awkward.
34:57The other part that I think is really beautiful, Serena, is this front cat.
35:01I think you've got this beautiful arching of the spine.
35:03I know that you nixed the boy in the dog costume, and you focused here on the foil and the cucumbers and the water.
35:11I just don't know that the story is really loud and clear.
35:18Can you tell us what your assigned ingredients were?
35:20We got cardamom, chocolate, and dates.
35:22I made a cardamom and chocolate cake, and then I did a toffee date soak, and then I also have an orange Italian buttercream.
35:31Emily, I think you've given us a really rich, extravagant, almost, chocolate cake.
35:38I get the sweetness from the date.
35:40I wish you'd left bigger chunks of date in here.
35:43I think that the texture of your chocolate cake is very heavy.
35:47So I feel like the textures are not quite there, but the flavors are loud and strong.
35:54I liked it.
35:57Thank you so much.
36:00I...
36:03Okay.
36:04Poisonous perfection.
36:05What words did you get?
36:06We got vampire hair and bravely.
36:10There's nothing more brave than a hairy vampire entering a wax salon,
36:15ready to accept his painful fate.
36:18The vampire is made out of pumpkin, of course.
36:20The goblins are a modeling chocolate and rice cereal tree.
36:23The glass door and the sconce in the back are sugar, as well as the goblins' eyes.
36:28Again, you just bring the funny, like every week, in terms of telling the story, giving us the emotion, hitting all the words on that list.
36:37You did it. Well done.
36:38I also love that you have this gigantic piece of pumpkin, balanced out by these sort of light and airy bumblebee-esque goblins.
36:48This is such an incredible piece.
36:50It's just such a great, beautifully sculpted character.
36:54That beautiful sugar door in the back there.
36:57The knuckles, if they were just a little tighter, and if you painted just the bones here whiter than the rest,
37:02if he would really look like he's just knuckling it.
37:06And what's your tasting element made out of?
37:08We got apple, rum, and maple.
37:11So I made some slugs.
37:13The slugs are filled with a maple butterscotch budino and with caramelized rum apples and a cornflake maple crunch.
37:23And it's all in a milk chocolate shell.
37:25I love that you poached the apples in the rum.
37:30They are complementing each other very well.
37:32And it doesn't eat too sweet.
37:34I do get like a little bit of the aroma of the maple without too much of the sweetness.
37:38So really smart there.
37:39I can taste the apple loud and clear.
37:41I can taste the rum for sure.
37:43I think you did a really thoughtful, great job here.
37:46Poisonous perfection.
37:47Great job.
37:50That went really well.
37:51It was good.
37:52Pretty good.
37:53Under Cakers, what words did you get?
37:56So the words we got were werewolf, anxiously, and blood.
38:01Waylon and Wanda have been handling Waylon's condition for the better part of a decade.
38:05Wanda creates his favorite foods and gets him locked before the moon comes up.
38:09This time they're running a little bit late and they are very anxiously waiting to close the door.
38:14The main character Waylon is made of pumpkin.
38:16The chalice is pumpkin.
38:17And then we have steaks made of cake.
38:20And Wanda is made of cereal treats.
38:22And the backboard is painted out of buttercream and fondant.
38:26The adverb anxiously is so difficult to convey.
38:29It's a risk that you put that emotion into the back character as opposed to your front pumpkin character.
38:35But her face definitely looks anxious.
38:38And Nils, I know this is not the sugar spotlight, but you gave us some beautiful supporting sugar pieces there.
38:43But I think the one piece that really stands out to me is this backdrop, Tanisha.
38:48So much texture, so many beautiful colors there.
38:51Margie, tonight's your night, honey, whether you like it or not.
38:55And I think you liked it.
38:56I did like it.
38:57I love the level of detail that you carved into your werewolf character.
39:02From the fur to the very impeccable musculature.
39:06One thing that I don't think works so well, I wish she was looking at her husband.
39:10Because I think then it would be very clear that the source of her anxiety is him.
39:15What were your assigned ingredients?
39:17Our assigned ingredients were orange, cranberry, and clove.
39:20So we have a white chocolate orange vanilla mousse with sugar cranberries, candy ginger on top,
39:27and then a graham cracker clove crust.
39:30I taste all three super loud, super clear.
39:34I love the tartness from the cranberry.
39:36I don't agree.
39:38Really?
39:39This never happens.
39:40What is going on?
39:41Artie, what do you think?
39:42I know.
39:43I feel like I don't taste the clove as much.
39:46Really?
39:47It is so bold and so brave.
39:49I just wish that the clove came through a little stronger.
39:52Thank you, Undercakers.
39:53Thank you, guys.
39:54Good job, guys.
39:58This challenge required your most ingenious level of creativity yet.
40:02One team was able to turn three simple words into a terrifying display that the judges couldn't look away from.
40:13Congratulations.
40:15Poisonous perfection.
40:16You're the winner of this challenge.
40:21Unfortunately, Wicked Sculptors and Oven Coven.
40:28Both of you took big risks, but your final displays left the judges a little puzzled.
40:34Wicked Sculptors, you each had real winning moments, and that jutting jaw really sells the emotion of awkwardly.
40:43But the piece as a whole still feels unfinished, with a big empty space right in the front of your display and a story that doesn't make sense.
40:51And now you find yourselves in the bottom two again.
40:54This week, the spotlight was on the pumpkin carver.
40:58And David, you took that challenge head on.
41:01We love the inventiveness of using the pumpkin shell for the hairline.
41:05Unfortunately, it does feel like the case of quantity over quality.
41:10And while we fell in love with his furry friend, we don't get cautiously here.
41:17Unfortunately, the team that won't be moving on is...
41:25Oven Coven.
41:28Looking back, I would have definitely made him smaller in hindsight just so I could have made it a much more refined piece.
41:34Congratulations, Poisonous Perfection, Under Cakers, and Wicked Sculptors.
41:39You made it to the semifinals.
41:41We'll see you next time.
41:45Next time, we are in the semifinal.
41:48The three remaining teams dare to enter an evil lair.
41:53I never did something this huge, but why not now?
41:56This could go either really great or really bad.
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