Halloween Wars (2011–…): Season 10, Episode 3 - Monster Support Group - full transcript
There's a chill in the air
For the third frightful night
Of "Halloween wars"...
We want to terrify those judges.
...As four teams
combine cake, sugar...
Come on, come on.
...And carved pumpkin...
Oh!
...To give us nightmares.
At the end of tonight's battle,
One more team
will be eliminated...
Oh!
You are so much better
than this.
...While the rest
fight on for $50,000.
- Whoa!
- Whoa!
- Winner. Winner.
- Have fun.
And another terrifying battle
of "Halloween wars"
Starts right now.
Walking back in the kitchen,
We're feeling
really confident today.
Two in a row,
we're the team to be beat.
Welcome back
to "Halloween wars".
When it comes to Halloween
and horror movies,
One of the most
terrifying characters
Is the iconic mad scientist.
And when you're a mad scientist,
You can always make
your own companion.
And that's why
we want you to conjure
Your most twisted vision
of the mad scientist's new pet.
Remember, win this round
And earn an extra assistant
in the next round.
You have got just 45 minutes,
And the clock starts right now.
- Mad scientist, new pet.
- What are we going to do?
Gotta be a creature
of some sort.
I think a snake would be cool.
Maybe he lost his favorite pet.
He's going to stitch them
together with other animals.
Do three of them, right?
What about a dog face?
That'd be great... maybe we do
A scorpion in the back, too?
Perfect.
I'm heading for the patch,
I've got to get a pumpkin.
The mad scientist's
beloved dog dies,
And he wants him to live on.
So piece of iguana here,
some scorpion there.
Whatever works to make him walk.
Winner winner.
The pumpkin's got
a really good meat on it.
It's a nice, tight grain.
I am going to be
carving the iguana body.
I've got to find
just the right pumpkin
With the right curvature
Because I need to do this
in one piece
Because I don't have time
to patch seams.
I've got to really
cut in the details...
The ribs, the scales.
Then I've got to line it up
with the dog head
And the scorpion tail.
I need mine there
before they can put theirs in.
How far out the back
will your tail stick?
Is that good or bad?
Be better if it was up more.
- Shortening more?
- Yeah.
Steve's going to do
the tail and claws
For the stinging scorpions.
He's going to use
blown sugar for the tail
And he's going to do
pulled sugar for the claws.
- I'm needing three hands.
- Dan, can you build me an arm?
I'm on it.
You got to make that really
look like a zombie, right?
- Yeah. It's going to be scary.
- Zombie dog.
Haymu's going to be
doing the pug head.
She's going to take
a rice cereal ball,
Cover it in modeling chocolate.
She'll go to town
and put in the fine details.
She's going to color the
modeling chocolate as she goes
And then do a final
airbrush at the end.
You guys, I'm making
the big back part there
To go on dan's backside there.
- Oh, his tail.
- Yeah.
The hardest part
about this piece
Is getting steve's sugar
Onto my pumpkin
without breaking it.
Is it going to melt and fall?
But we might have to sit him
on top of this notch.
Amy, you think this is
big enough for the fish?
I think that's definitely
big enough for the fish.
Our mad scientist wants
to make his fish able to walk,
And what better way
to make a fish walk
Than combining him with a duck?
We've got to
make sure that we have time
To put this thing together.
Chad is going to carve
the fish body
And the duck feet
out of pumpkin.
He is going to take the natural
curve of the pumpkin,
In order to create
the curve of the fish,
To make it look like
it's swimming.
The curve looks awesome.
I'm going to start
carving the head.
I'm going to make the fish head
of cake and cover it in fondant.
I'm going to use
a few specialty tools
To add the gills
and all the details in the face.
How are the beakers
coming, janet?
Back in science lab.
Feel like med school
all over again.
Because we really want to set
the scene of a mad scientist,
Janet's going to make
beakers and test tubes.
I may have to adjust
the angle of it some.
I think this tail's
looking pretty cool, though.
I'm liking the way
this body is shaping up.
I just wanted to have
a little bit more height
Out of this cake.
The mad scientist
had his favorite cat,
His sweet little boo,
And so when boo
passed through the veil,
He figures that not only
will he bring him back,
He'll improve him a little bit.
Frankenstein cat.
So I'm thinking
lots and lots of wrinkles
And an ugly mug.
The hardest part is going to be
Getting the head
to articulate in a way
That doesn't look like
a butternut squash
Resting against a pile of cake.
That's pretty close.
Dead on. Nice.
I'll even it out
with the airbrush.
I'm going to match the fondant
to that butternut squash color
So that it's one cohesive unit.
Hey, I'm going to start
from blowing on the tail.
Cesar is taking pulled sugar
And shape it into
a long, sinuous tail.
Deane, how are you
looking on the cat head?
Scary as hell.
It's time to say hello
to your judges.
Award-winning cake artist,
shinmin li.
Hey.
Special effects makeup artist
And horror film director,
todd tucker.
Hey, guys.
And now it's time to say hello
to your guest judge.
From the smash hit movie
"annabelle comes home",
Please welcome katie sarife.
- Oh, cool.
- Wow!
Hi, everyone.
Her movie scared
the daylights out of me.
Dolls, creepy dolls, and no...
Scary.
So, judges,
mad scientist, new pet.
What are you hoping to see?
I would love to see
pieced together animals,
Taking, like, zebra heads
on, like, bunny bodies.
Yeah, I just want to see
just different body parts.
I want to see something
that you wouldn't expect.
- It's got to be scary.
- It's got to be scary.
- Got to be scary.
- Yes, yes.
Got a name for this guy, jeff?
Poly-saurus rex,
How about that? I love it.
Our mad scientist,
he's a genetic mad scientist,
So he takes an iguana, a parrot,
And he threw a piranha
in there, too.
I don't trust the depth of this.
I don't want to break through.
I'm going to have to rely more
on paint for this, guys.
Derek's going to carve
the parrot head from pumpkin.
He looks angry.
That's what we want.
I have to make the body
out of rice cereal treat
Covered in fondant.
I came up
with this technique just now.
Making some feathers on the fly.
The transition from feathers
into scales,
I'll try to do the same thing
on the back of his head
With a pumpkin.
I've got to start
airbrushing this thing.
Joel, you good?
- I'm nervous right now.
I've got to
try to take this out,
And I only got one shot.
The beakers, in itself,
is a huge feat.
Oh, yeah, I got it guys.
You have to blow
the beaker ball,
Then he has to pour another tube
And attach that to
the blown ball for the beaker.
Guys.
Beautiful.
Joel, he is just good.
I hate to pressure you,
but don't forget my teeth.
Alright?
We chew up the competition.
30 minutes, guys.
I still got to make a mohawk.
I don't know if I'm going
to be able to get it done.
Cesar, how are we doing?
How's the mice?
Mice are coming along.
- Stay the course, baby.
- Stay the course.
We're going to come together
at the last minute, haymu,
And it's going to be great.
I trust you, big ogre.
Wow. That really does
look uniform.
Oh, I love it. I love it.
It's going to look cohesive.
I'm just going to put
some more stitches in here.
Boo is stitched together,
So I'm going to take
my groove tool
And then I'll make
little stitches.
And then once deane
has airbrushed it,
Those stitches should pop.
Deane is killing it
on this airbrushing.
It looks great.
- Going with a red head, right?
- Looks good, jeff.
When you're looking
at it aesthetically,
He is going to be
really colorful,
But that little bugger
will eat you alive.
Oh, nice. Okay.
We've got this one guys.
We've got it.
10 minutes left.
I'm going to airbrush the fish
a little bit of orange first.
Make sure that it looks
like that pumpkin
And then I'll add
in some details.
I think we got to
get those mice on there.
We've got to get
the tail on there.
10 minutes, you guys.
We got this.
We got this, you guys.
- Dan?
- Yeah?
So here, look?
We'll stick this over here
like this.
The hardest part is making sure
the pumpkin's in place
Because we're going to slot
the blown sugar tail
Underneath the pumpkin body
to hold it in place.
It's just going to be
held by gravity.
Six minutes left.
Really? I need to get
that back in.
We don't have a lot of time.
- Look out, look out, look out.
Steve tries to
join the tail to the pumpkin.
I look down,
And it sticks out the rear end.
I don't think it'll fit.
It looks bad.
Getting the perfect marriage of
sugar and pumpkin is impossible.
Oh, man.
We don't have a lot of time.
I need to get that stuff
back there.
Our team is making
the mad scientist's beloved dog
Combined with a piece of iguana
here, some scorpion there.
Pick up his back a little bit.
Teamwork.
Steve tries to join
the tail to the pumpkin
And it sticks out the rear end.
I mean, it looks funny.
Yeah, scoop it out.
Poke it under, steve.
I'm going to jam something
underneath him.
Just give me anything.
That'll raise him up a little.
We're painting,
we're trying to make it
Seamless from dark to light.
The color is matching.
We'll just airbrush it more.
Yeah.
Got five minutes left.
- Jeff, you doing good?
- Oh, that looks great.
I've just got to get
the feet on it.
Our mad scientist takes
some of his favorite pets
And combine them
into one creature.
- I've got to get the feathers on.
- We got to get the teeth on.
We've got to get
that on like now.
Here, jeff, got to get this on.
We can't shake
this too much guys,
Because that might slide off.
I'm painting h2o
on the water tanks.
I'm starting the second feet
right now, amy.
Awesome. Have you got time?
We got five minutes left.
- Oh, yeah.
Our mad scientist is literally
creating a fish out of water.
I'm just going to give you
some more bubbles.
Cool, that'll be awesome.
Can you hit these feet
a little bit?
Airbrush them down,
They're going to make them
stand out.
We've still got to get
the isomalt on the board.
Is that something
I could start on?
Sweet little boo
is stitched together
With bits of duck or lizard.
Let me see, where we are
going to put this tail.
This tail does involve
a lot of risk.
You slide that in wrong
and it shatters.
- It's a long piece of wire, man.
- Cut me a wire. Right there.
- Right here?
- Right there.
I'm providing a piece there
to bolster it up.
Okay. I hope that stays.
One minute left.
And then we throw
a little paint right there.
You guys, I've got
to put the beakers.
I got to put the beaker, and
we can't touch it after that.
- Okay.
- I got it. I got it. I got it.
I got it.
- I feel a little fishy.
We're done. We're done.
This is actually
the best angle right here.
5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
Hands off your displays.
- Nice. That actually looks good.
- Whew, lord.
In this small scare,
we asked you to show us
Your spookiest
mad scientist's new pet.
Ghoulicious,
introduce us to your new friend.
This is boo.
The scientist decided that not
only would he reanimate him,
He would improve him a little.
The head is made out of pumpkin,
the body is cake.
We have a sugared lizard tail,
And we have some pulled
sugar mice for him, as well.
He's really cute
in, like, a scary way.
I like the stitching a lot.
The detail on the stitching's
really cool,
And I like the detailing
on this guy's face.
I just would have
liked him to be
In a slightly
more active position
Or it kind of looks like
he might be taking a snooze.
Well I feel like you guys
Are finally getting
proportions right.
I'm not crazy about
his body language.
He's very passive,
And I think it would be
a lot more interesting
If his head were reared up
a little higher.
Now, cesar, you are
so much better than this.
The tail is just super sloppy,
And the mouse doesn't resemble
a mouse to me at all.
It's a nice sculpture.
You got a lot of character
In the body, in the face.
If you go in
and just make those eyes pop,
It's going to help
your character
Because my eye is going
to go to that eye,
And instantly I'm going to start
to enjoy this piece.
Ghoulicious,
thank you very much.
Crave diggers, you're up.
Our mad scientist decided
to combine an iguana
And a parrot and a piranha.
The head is pumpkin,
the tail is our cake portion.
We have sugar feathers that
he ate and also sugar beaker.
I like how you have the tail
going into the bird's wings.
You go from the green to
the blue and a nice transition.
You have to be careful
of positioning.
At first, it kind of felt like
that feather was a nose.
A little confusing for me.
Normally, I'm not such a fan
Of such a static position
Because he's just absolutely
straight up vertical,
But what you did
is you leaned the head forward,
And that brought it
to life for me.
As someone who's acted
in the "conjuring" universe,
The monsters
are the coolest parts.
One of the things that makes him
so interesting is the detailing.
It really feels like
almost a monster gone awry.
Thank you, crave diggers.
Candy corners.
So our mad scientist
was very jealous
Of all of his friends being able
to walk their pets,
And he figured, "why not?
I'll just take my fish out."
So after a few failed attempts,
he finally created gillian.
The white striping in the center
is just everything.
It really just brings it alive
and it breaks up the colors
So that you can really
see the detail
That you put
into the body there.
Where you guys are kind of
falling a little short,
Actually are your smaller,
kind of decorative elements.
I think the sugar beakers
just look really rough.
It's a lot of fun. As far as
the actual character itself,
You have some movement
in the body, which is nice.
If you're going to position
the display this way,
You need to have the head
pointing at us so we can see it.
I like that you kind of
created a scene with this.
I think that's really cool.
Candy corners,
thank you very much.
Mummies' rejects.
Carl is a mad scientist
whose favorite family pet
Was struck down
way before his time.
He scours the country
to find creature parts
To stitch him back together.
The head is rice cereal
and modeling chocolate,
The tail and the front pincers
are blown sugar,
And the body is pumpkin.
I love, love the scorpion claws.
Those are so cool.
I also really like
his under bite.
If you had told me you were
going to make a blue dog,
I would have said
that might not work,
But actually
your color palette here
Works extremely well for me.
Now, the biggest issue
I'm seeing with this right now
Is the fact
that you have two front legs
That don't look
anything like legs,
But I do like this dog,
And I think
you guys did a very nice job.
I love that this character
has such presence.
I like the tail on the back.
I like that it comes
to a nice point,
But the face of it
is just too heavy for me.
It's a really big wad,
And it doesn't make
a lot of sense.
Mummies' rejects,
thank you very much.
Lots of cuddly creepiness
to contemplate.
The judges will need a minute
to think it over.
We deserve to win
this small scare.
We haven't won one yet.
I mean...
I feel we really deserve
to win this challenge
Because we've demonstrated
what a cohesive unit can do.
Coming up...
easy, man.
- Nobody breathe on this thing.
- We wanna terrify those judges.
When you do something,
we want to see it.
Take it up with nature.
For this small scare,
we challenged you
To show us
your most terrifying vision
Of a mad scientist's new pet.
The judges felt
there was one team
Who gave us the most
seamless combination
Of cake, sugar, and pumpkin.
Congratulations...
Crave diggers.
We win it. I mean,
our first small scare,
And we get
that extra assistant now.
Finally got one.
Let's face it.
Life as a monster is tough.
Chasing after people
all day long is exhausting,
And when you try to let loose
at the dance club,
Everybody just runs away
screaming.
That's why we want you
to show us the beastly bonding
That goes down
at a monster support group,
Whether it's a weekly
werewolf poker game
Or a cooking class for vampires.
Just make sure it's healing
and of course...
Terrifying.
And make sure to lay out
some devilishly delicious
doughnuts
For a mid-meeting pick-me-up.
Each of you will be given
one assistant,
And, crave diggers,
You get double the help
You earned from your win
in the small scare.
You have got just five hours.
Get to work.
Alright, guys,
what do you think?
We've got to get them
in this round. First round...
We're winning
in the second round.
We can't lose anymore.
What if it was the
"odd eye fellow society"?
It's for monsters
that have an odd number of eyes.
In a world of binocular beings,
It's hard to have
an odd number of eyes.
Deane, you think you could stack
some pumpkins like that?
Pumpkin, pumpkin,
pumpkin, pumpkin.
I got a lot of pumpkin going on.
Whoa.
I'm just going to roll mine.
Deane is going to be
carving all of the heads.
You don't want me
to give you any faces, deane?
You can give me a face.
I'm using my...
What about this face?
What about this?
Oh, wow.
He's going to be carving
five pumpkins in five hours.
It's a lot of pumpkins.
I'm going to have
the cyclops here
For you pretty soon.
So I'm boiling the sugars.
I got yellow going,
I got metallic blues.
These eyes
that cesar has to pull off
Are a challenge
all of their own.
There's definitely an art to it,
And if you have black
for a pupil
And color for an iris,
And they're not
totally cooled off,
They run together.
That is fantastic.
I'm going to be doing
the bodies of the odd fellows
Using cake, rice cereal treats,
modeling chocolate,
And, of course, fondant.
It's ambitious.
Yay!
- Welcome back.
- How are y'all?
- Good, I'm rachel.
- Rachel!
We get that extra assistant now.
So now we have a lot to get done
That we plan on
in this next spine chiller.
We're going to go
for classic monsters.
We're going to pick frankie,
We're going to do
a female vampire, and a mummy.
We're going to make
a little swamp
Where they can just go
and sit and relax.
I think we'll be all right.
I can still get
that squared-off look.
Frankie's head is really square,
And he really wants to put
a lot of detail in it.
Cause I think some
bubbles on the pond
are going to be nice.
- So it looks like it's boiling.
- Yeah.
Can you make some
and cut them in half,
So they're like half popped
on the surface?
Oh, nice.
That'd be a great idea.
Joel, he's going to be pouring
the entire swamp out of sugar.
The surface of the pond
is really crucial
To make it look like
they're sitting in water.
Ha! This is my best
masterpiece ever.
Frankie's body's going to be
a different challenge
'cause he's not
wearing any clothes.
I'll sculpt him
out of modeling chocolate
And just give him
a good chiseled-looking body.
Abs are just like mine.
Look at that, incredible.
What do you think about this
For the top of the pillar
on each side?
I love it.
Okay, let me know
if I need to help
With that structure
on the bar.
Okay.
After a long day of vampiring,
Our vampires go downstairs
to their favorite bar,
Which is conveniently located
Underneath the local blood bank.
Chad is going to carve
a bat out of pumpkin,
And we're going to have that
hanging from the ceiling.
The taps behind the bar
are going to be bone,
So chad's going to carve
them out of potatoes.
He's going to do them
really, really early on
In hopes that they oxidize
And get that
really old, creepy bone effect.
So this is just
a bloom sheet gelatin.
I added a little bit
of simple syrup.
I want it to be slightly pliable
when it sets up.
Instead of having beer on tap,
We're going to have
blood on tap.
So we're going to use
iv bags from the blood bank,
And I'm going to make those
using gelatin.
So we're casting the sugar,
we're going to make up the bar.
Janet is going to make
the countertop out of isomalt.
It's going to be
a horseshoe-shaped bar
That she's going to have to cast
in several different pieces
In order to make it one unit.
Then she's going to add several
different colors of powder
After she pours it
In order to create
that swirled marble design.
What do y'all think
about this marbling?
- It looks beautiful.
- Yeah.
I'm going to try
to get him assembled
Then I'm going to go
to flinging hair.
We come up with three monsters
That are down
on their scare quotas,
So they go on a weekend
camping trip
To get their head
screwed on right.
This is one of
the biggest pumpkins
That I've ever been
able to carve.
We don't really get them
this big back home.
For rocket, the werewolf,
I need to find a thick pumpkin
Because I want the pumpkin
to support itself.
Trying to cool down
this black sugar
So I can do
some blown sugar ravens.
Steve is going to be
blowing the ghost out of sugar,
But first steve's
going to start blowing
A couple of crows in sugar.
He uses a little bladder
And he'll start airing it up
and shaping it as he goes
And he's got to constantly
put it back under the heat,
Bring it out of the heat.
So, guys, here's a raven.
What do you think?
Oh, looks good.
So haymu's going to make
her big monster out of cake,
Rice cereal,
and modeling chocolate.
She's going to make a stump
for him to sit on
So you can see him
above the fire.
I guess the texture and details
in every art piece...
Yeah, we really got
to step it up this time.
Get our first big win.
Four hours left!
We've got to hurry,
hurry, hurry.
- Alright, guys.
- Yeah!
Ahh! Come on!
- Teamwork, kids, teamwork.
- That's it.
We need to make sure
we win this one
'cause those crave diggers need
to be taken down a notch.
Monster support group.
What are you seeing out there?
I see lots of characters.
This is so exciting because
one of my favorite things
Is to see how these characters
interact with each other.
Every single station
Has at least two or three
characters each,
Which is really cool.
- And they're so different.
These are creatures that
if I was to be in a horror film
With these things, I just would
be absolutely terrified.
I think our surface
is pretty good.
I like watching joel
work his magic.
Don't drop him. Don't drop him.
No, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no.
Well, let's get
that chandelier up there.
I know!
Janet is making the chandelier.
She's going to cast
several different squirrels
And then glue them all together
with more isomalt
In order to create
this 3-d shape.
Amy, how's it going?
I want to make sure
the judges recognize
That they're all
the same kind of creature.
Giving us critique
on the faces not matching up
And I want to make sure
that they match this time.
I'm making the characters
out of cake, fondant,
Rice cereal treats,
and modeling chocolate.
I tried to make him
a little extra creepy.
Definitely going for
spooky this time.
Yeah. I like the pointy
in the clothing
That you got going there.
The more nightmares
we give people, the better.
I want him to appear like
a scary werewolf,
But he's going to be
doing a funny thing
By holding the light
shining up at himself.
I want rocket to be sitting
with his legs crossed,
Holding a flashlight.
It needs to have
that playful side
Where he's looking at it
'cause they're at a retreat.
They're trying to get
their mind right.
That is one giant werewolf
Made entirely out of pumpkin.
This team actually is
the one team
That consistently gives us
a horrifying finished product.
I needed a step ladder
to work on this guy.
I'm too short!
Oh, that's nasty looking.
I am covering this arm
With more modeling chocolate,
rice crispy,
And now I'm going to add
a finishing layer of fondant,
And then I'm going to
detail it with some hair.
Deane, how big is
this pumpkin head going to be?
It's in the refrigerator.
Deane is carving all of
the heads of the odd fellows.
The pumpkin is too small.
I told you, I can't
make the pumpkins
a different size.
That's a really bad
problem, deane.
We've run into some problems
with proportion
Because I have scaled my setup
for a much larger pumpkin.
Was supposed to go on top.
I thought we talked about that.
No.
Unfortunately,
the pumpkin that we have
Is the pumpkin
that we've got to use.
The scale is way too small.
Take it up with nature.
It's not going
to get any bigger.
Damn it.
Listen, look, look,
stop, stop, stop.
I'm not sure how to fix
the scale problem.
Well I'm trying to figure out
now we've got a scale problem
Because the pumpkin
is too small.
Deane is carving all of
the heads of the odd fellows.
That's a really
bad problem, deane.
It's the way pumpkins grow.
I have scaled my setup
for a much larger pumpkin.
Unfortunately, the pumpkin
wasn't the right size.
Deane is already really behind,
so he can't start over.
I'm not sure how to fix
the scale problem, you guys.
Well, you're going to have to
Because the pumpkin
isn't going to get any bigger.
The pumpkin that we have
Is the pumpkin
that we've got to use.
So now I've got to figure out
How to build up
some of that volume
So that we have a creature
without a long neck.
And we're just
going to use those
To build it up a little.
I spent way too much time
On our vampire lady here.
I got to get her
some pointed ears, though.
We're going to
make a little swamp
With a more relaxed frankie,
The female vampire,
and the mummy.
He's going to be
kind of floating in mid-air.
- Is he going to fall?
- I hope not.
So crave diggers,
you have another piece.
It looks like a floating mummy
or a ghost or something.
And they continually defy
gravity with their characters
And always have motion.
It's very cool.
Ah, I'll tell you what.
First time mummy wrapping,
I'm not doing too terribly bad.
The tasting elements
are actually going to be
Spiced pumpkin cake doughnuts.
We roasted a pumpkin
straight from the patch
Over there with some spices.
And then we made
that into a cake doughnut
batter.
And then we did
a cream cheese icing,
With a little splash of bourbon.
Oh, beautiful.
He's going to top this thing
With candied pumpkin seeds
right from the patch.
Ohhh.
Mmm, you've got to
teach me that recipe.
Eric! Eric! Eric: Yeah?
Why so quiet?
Are y'all worried or what?
I'm as worried as I was
in the first two challenges.
We're halfway done.
I've got the torso, legs,
and the head of the wolf done,
So I still have two arms
and a tail.
- Haymu.
- What?
Need a hand?
Haymu has her big monster
built up to the head.
She's got it looking good,
But she still has
a lot of detail to do.
Steve has not quite started
his apparition yet.
Your ghost
better be there, steve.
Wizard's got his magic going.
Cut that wand right there.
This is the bottom part.
I'm going to make a top part
and then a head.
And then he's going to
have teeth coming out.
So he's got a lot
of small sugar work
And a lot of big sugar work,
But I don't think it's been
done on the show before.
- It's cool, right?
- I like those hands, too.
Monsters come out
to mingle in two hours!
Two hours, guys.
What do you think?
We need to start
getting stuff done.
It's going to be
time up before long.
- Dan, we need to hurry up!
- Stay, doggy, stay.
Jeff, I'm just going to
paint him all gray.
Now I'll go in and airbrush and
make them look similar to yours.
Okay? - Okay.
That's really cool.
What is that?
It's corn silk.
You had to dig deep
in the pantry to find that.
Turn him right there.
That's awesome. Awesome.
Alright, guys, I'm going to get
started on the tasting element,
One part of
the tasting element, okay?
So for the tasting element,
Cesar's making
a graham cracker beignet
With a smoked chocolate crémeux.
You're smoking chocolate?
- You're smoking chocolate?
- I'm smoking chocolate.
- I ain't never smoked chocolate.
Well, I'll show you
how to do it one day!
...And a vanilla
toasted marshmallow top.
That's it, nice and toasty,
marshmallowy.
We've got to
get that top on there.
We've got to get the characters.
Alright, chad.
The judges love
that we do full scenes,
So we really want to add
a lot of components
To create
this elaborate bar scene.
Is that centered? Yes.
Chad has to hang the chandelier
very, very carefully.
Alright, let's get
that tabletop.
Have a little faith.
Look how beautiful that is.
- That is gorgeous.
I am grinding up the peanuts
for our tasting element.
For the tasting element,
we want to do
A play off of salty bar snacks.
Chad, I'm glazing the doughnuts.
They're almost ready,
Then I can have you guys
finish off the display.
So we're going to fill
the doughnuts with the red
caramel,
And then we're going to top them
with salted roasted peanuts.
We got this, you guys.
Come on guys, let's go!
We've got to go.
I'm just adding the hoof,
and then I'm done.
- Can we add it on the board?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah!
Haymu's piece is extremely cool,
extremely detailed,
But it's taken her a little
longer than expected to finish.
We need him on the board
So steve can put his
on the board.
Yeah, those look a little dark.
Oh, do they? Actually,
I think they're perfect.
Mm, okay.
Steve's come up
with a doughnut recipe
That I think is really
going to kill them.
It's a s'more doughnut
with chocolate ganache
And crushed graham crackers.
It should taste like
the world's best s'more.
Steve, where do you want to put
the tasting element at?
Ah, let's find
a spot that's open
So we can fill some space.
There's no support group
for losing "Halloween wars",
But one team's going to have
time to start one in one hour.
Come on, let's go.
Let's hustle. Let's hustle.
Just need to paint,
paint, paint, paint.
Making the bar tap handles,
And I'm painting on
the blood types on each one.
So it's like different flavors.
The marshmallow sticks
are right there
If you want to start
stabbing them
With marshmallows and eyeballs.
- Feeling the pressure, guys.
- You got it.
Last hour,
we're putting on lily pads.
Joel's working on the
dragonflies, getting them set.
I don't have time to just
sit here and hold this,
But I have no choice.
We're just trying to button
down all the little stuff
Before we put the heads
on these bodies.
- Got to bury the other teams.
- That's right.
Heather, my flames are ready.
My rocks are ready.
Logs are ready. Uh-huh.
I want everything done
before I start laying down.
Thanks, cesar. We got it.
We know, we know.
Deane, do you have
some heads for me?
I need to be left alone
for about five minutes.
I'm still not really crazy
about the bodies.
That's something that
they struggle with quite often.
They have great pumpkin faces
Because I think they do rely
quite heavily on deane.
Deane, we've got to
get it on there.
We've got to start spraying.
- I need to be left alone.
It's still quite a bit
to come together,
But yeah, it's the same
problem we've had before.
Their bodies look kind of
identical, so very static.
Very little movement in any
of these pieces at this point
And that seems to be
an ongoing theme for these guys.
- Let's go guys. Let's go.
- How about you, cesar?
I'm all set, I'm waiting
on you guys. Let's go!
Wonderful. Yay, cesar!
There's so many things to do.
I'm feeling like literally
chicken with its head cut off.
- Deane-o!
- I'll get back to you.
How are we looking?
Heather, my flames are ready.
My rocks are ready.
Logs are ready.
Wonderful, yay, cesar!
There's so many things to do.
I'm feeling like literally
chicken with its head cut off.
Deane-o, let's go!
Don't be messing with my money.
Deane, how's that
last head going?
It's coming.
I want everything done
before I start laying down.
There's no time
to fix or arrange
Or anything like that.
Really we just have
to keep going.
- There you go.
- We can do this!
10 minutes till you're done!
- Hold on.
- Okay, he's going down now.
That's good. Perfect.
Just be careful. Coming around,
coming around, coming around.
Alright. Just watch.
Just a little worried
about this guy holding up.
Nobody breathe on this thing.
You have one minute left!
What are we missing?
Hit the eyebrows
on the guy sitting down.
Coming through! Hot!
Put some buttercream
on the bottom.
- I'm going to add dry ice, okay?
- Dry ice. Yes. Do it now.
- 10...
- Careful!
- ...9, 8...
- Careful the wings, guys.
Come on you got
to hustle, hustle.
...7, 6, 5...
- Got the tasting element on?
- Scatter that.
...4, 3, 2...
- How are we looking?
- How are we looking?
...1! Hands off your displays!
- Looks good.
- Thanks. Thanks for the help.
In this spine chiller,
the judges wanted to see
The tender side of terror
In a monster support group.
Judges, let's take a look.
Mummies' rejects.
Tell us about your display.
Our three monsters decided to go
on a weekend camping retreat
To clear their heads.
There's no need to take a snack
Because you just dig up
a fresh cadaver
And have brain kabobs.
The wolf is completely pumpkin.
The apparition
is all blown sugar.
The monster in the back
is cake and modeling chocolate.
The crows, the fire,
And wrought iron fence
are sugar.
So what are we tasting today?
We have a s'more doughnut
that's deep fried
With a marshmallow filling
And a chocolate ganache that has
a tiny bit of brandy in it.
I like the texture
of the doughnut a lot.
Very, very light,
But still crispy
around the edges.
But it was overwhelmingly smoky,
So I didn't really
taste sweetness.
I didn't taste
the dark chocolate.
I just tasted smoke.
You guys literally have
three amazing creatures here
And what impresses me
more than anything
Is that one of them is pumpkin,
One of them is cake,
And one of them is sugar.
And the designs
of these characters
Are off the charts, you guys.
The fact that you created this
werewolf out of one pumpkin
And supported its own weight,
you have done him justice.
Haymu, I hate your monster
Because it's so scary
And I actually feel it
under my skin.
And when you create
a physical reaction,
Then you've really succeeded.
I would totally buy him
as a movie monster.
The boils on the skin,
it's gross,
Which is great
because it's horror.
I'm not a fan of the background
Just because it picks up
on the colors
Of the creature in the middle.
Thank you, mummies' rejects.
Candy coroners,
let's talk about your display.
After a long, grueling day,
The vampires all gather
in their favorite bar
In a basement of a blood bank.
The vampires themselves
are carved out of cake,
Rice cereal treats,
modeling chocolate, and fondant.
The bar top is made of isomalt,
As well
as the hanging chandelier.
And the tops of the columns
on the sides are carved pumpkin.
We are serving you
a salted blood clot doughnut
With a blood red caramel,
And then topped
with salted roasted peanuts.
The flavor didn't develop enough
in the proofing,
And that also created kind of
a dry and really heavy doughnut.
But I love the theme.
I love the savory peanuts
on top.
It's really, really appropriate
for the bar scene.
I love your color palette.
I love this kind of
aged feel everywhere.
I think this bar looks amazing.
I'm not crazy
about this character
In terms of the body position.
He seems a little bit
too big for the bar.
The positioning of his legs
Looks like
he should be sitting on a stool.
You have a bit of an empty spot
in the front here.
If you had brought those
two characters on the side in,
So that they were all part
of the visual,
It would have fixed that
and also lost
The empty space
in the front.
Katie.
It just looks like
it's a still from a movie.
They all kind of feel
like they have a story,
Which is interesting.
This guy over here,
Looks like he's had
a really rough day.
Thank you.
Ghoulicious, let's talk
about your display.
In a world
of snotty, binocular beings,
Being a non-typical eyed monster
is really kind of rough.
So these guys
like to take their woes
Out to the middle of nowhere.
The heads are made
out of pumpkin.
The bodies are made
out of cake and fondant.
The eyes are made
out of glass sugar.
The flames are made
out of pulled sugar.
And for the tasting element,
I did a japanese doughnut,
Filled it with
a smoked chocolate crémeux
With just a little
toasted marshmallow.
I wished your doughnut
were a little sweeter,
But what I did like
is I got that smokiness
And that actually just really
tasted like a campfire to me.
I think it's really clear
That these guys
are in a support group.
I love these amazing sugar eyes,
And then I love the campfire.
The flames are expressed
in the right way.
Now, deane, I think what
we love so much from you
Is really
your intricate pumpkin work.
And because you've done
five different pieces
Of pumpkin here,
you didn't get time
To concentrate on
just one character.
One thing that I like
about this right off the bat...
The way you have
the pumpkins stacked,
That was really cool.
One of the issues I have
Is you have
a giant black spot here
With nothing there.
It feels like the balance
of this piece is off.
I really like the expression
on these guys' faces.
They all kind of have
their own story going on.
I think it's a really cute
little campfire
With a group
of quirky characters.
Thank you, ghoulicious.
Crave diggers, you are up.
For our monster support group,
Frankie, dracula, and the mummy
Wanted to come out
for a day at the spa,
So they're sitting there
drinking some wine,
Eating some sweets,
And, of course,
the mummy decides
He's fixing to do a cannonball.
Both hands
are carved from pumpkin.
The bodies are made
from modeling chocolate
And rice cereal treats.
Mummy is made of
rice cereal treats
And modeling chocolate.
All the water, the dragon flies,
And the wine bottles, the glass,
that's sugar.
For the tasting element today,
You have
a spiced pumpkin doughnut
With a cream cheese icing
spiked with a little bourbon
And then some
candied pumpkin seeds.
Joel, the texture
of your cake is so moist,
And then you added
this crunchiness
So it was just really
well balanced
In terms of flavor and texture.
And, eric, you have
a lot of humor in your work,
And you create caricatures
that is truly spectacular.
I love this!
It looks like
such a fun little gathering.
The dragonflies
are just amazing.
The sugar works and the pond
is just really pretty, as well.
Your characters are always
really expressive,
Extremely fun to look at,
And your pieces always
have motion,
But I don't know
this hits the theme.
This feels more like
monster party.
All planning
and all that hard work.
How could we miss
the theme on this? I'm worried.
The judges are going to form
their own support group
And process a winner.
We'll meet you back here
in just a few minutes.
There's so much great work here.
Our display is just not as good
as one of the others.
That's the hair-line difference
Between whether
we go home or not.
Alright, judges,
you're down to four teams.
They are all so dynamic.
We're getting down
to the wire now,
So these guys are really
trying to step it up,
And a couple of the teams
literally blew me away.
Now let's talk about
mummies' rejects.
Wow. Dan's werewolf
made out of pumpkin...
That is one pumpkin...
But that monster in the back,
in the middle, he's so creepy.
I'm definitely going
to have nightmares tonight.
Each one of these characters
are individually
Amazing on their own.
The fact that all three of them
Did one character each
impresses me to no end.
I love that they're all
different creatures
That all somehow fit.
The backdrop was
their biggest issue,
And if they had just
done something
That was a different color
so that I didn't feel like it
Was muddying the rest
of the piece,
It would have helped them.
Now, steve s'mores doughnut
Tasted like
a burnt piece of toast.
It was so smoky,
which is unfortunate
Because I actually think
his pumpkin
Was fried up perfectly.
Now let's
talk about crave diggers.
It looks like a really fun
monster mash party.
I really love those dragonflies.
The characterizations on these
characters are fantastic,
And the finishing on them
is amazing.
The paint jobs, the sculptures.
I think the one thing
that they lacked on this one
Is that the frankenstein
character is gone.
He's so dark that he just
disappears into that background.
Joel's sugar pieces.
Again, not only did he have
Those show-stoppers
in the dragonflies
And then those little
green bubbles in the swamp,
All sugar work, as well.
That pumpkin cake was so moist
And then topped
with the caramelized seeds...
That added a little bit
of savory, a bit of crunch,
And a little bit
of nuttiness to the flavor.
Let's talk about ghoulicious.
I like the humor in this piece,
And I really liked
that they look like
They are the odd eye fellows,
So that does look like
a support group to me.
However, I don't know
If they really thought
about the design overall.
And because he did
five different pumpkin heads,
The details are not really there
Because he had to work on
so many of them,
But I think they interpreted
the challenge
The best in terms of story line.
I feel like
he really stretched himself
By trying to do too many,
And then unfortunately
we had said before
That we want the bodies to be
the level of the heads.
I think he went the other way.
I liked the expressions
on their faces
And the quirkiness
of each character.
I like the three tiers.
Cesar's doughnut
is a little bit cakey,
But that's actually what you
expect
Out of a japanese doughnut.
It's different
from a western doughnut.
However, that being said,
I really loved his marshmallow,
And it had a little bit
of that charred edge,
Which really does
feel like a s'more.
Let's talk about candy corners.
Yeah, I mean, I just
really loved the
whole atmosphere.
Just seems like a really cool
underground speakeasy
I'd love to go to.
But I just wish that
they had brought
The two characters on the side,
Just brought them in so there
wasn't that negative space.
Janet created
some of the most ambitious
Sugar work I've seen.
Not to mention, I love
the blood clot doughnut idea.
However, I thought
it was a little
Just too dry and really heavy.
- It was really dry.
- It should be a lot lighter.
Alright, judges,
one team's going to win
And one team's going home.
- Yep.
- Mm.
Let's bring back our teams.
Teams, for this spine chiller,
We asked you to give us
your scariest vision
Of a monster support group.
In the end, the judges
felt there was one team
Who did all of that
A little bit better
than the rest.
Congratulations...
Mummies' rejects.
Can't feel any better.
We needed this win.
We're tired of being second.
Morale was getting a little low.
This is big for us.
That leaves three teams...
Candy corners, ghoulicious,
and crave diggers.
One of you
just didn't measure up.
I'm feeling, you know, hopeful,
But I'm also really anxious
'cause there are some
definite design flaws here,
But I think we pulled it off.
We put all this thought
into the details,
But we missed
the whole overall theme.
It's really, really, really hard
to say who's going to go home.
It really just depends
at this point
What the judges are looking for.
Ghoulicious...
I'm sorry. You're done
in this Halloween war.
This was a really
tough experience.
There was design mistakes made.
There's no doubt about it.
Congratulations, guys.
The next time you teams meet,
You'll be facing off
For a spot in the finale.
We'll see you soon.
We were capable of blowing
this thing out of the water.
Going to the next Halloween war,
We're going to push ourselves
to be the best.
This season
on "Halloween wars"...
What the heck is going on
with this stuff?
Make sure it's scary.
That little guy to me
is the best character to date
That you guys have done.
In order to make something
terrifying so beautiful,
It's absolutely incredible.
I give him a five-star
experience here
On "Halloween wars".
Atta boy.
I'm super excited to see
what they'll do.
For the third frightful night
Of "Halloween wars"...
We want to terrify those judges.
...As four teams
combine cake, sugar...
Come on, come on.
...And carved pumpkin...
Oh!
...To give us nightmares.
At the end of tonight's battle,
One more team
will be eliminated...
Oh!
You are so much better
than this.
...While the rest
fight on for $50,000.
- Whoa!
- Whoa!
- Winner. Winner.
- Have fun.
And another terrifying battle
of "Halloween wars"
Starts right now.
Walking back in the kitchen,
We're feeling
really confident today.
Two in a row,
we're the team to be beat.
Welcome back
to "Halloween wars".
When it comes to Halloween
and horror movies,
One of the most
terrifying characters
Is the iconic mad scientist.
And when you're a mad scientist,
You can always make
your own companion.
And that's why
we want you to conjure
Your most twisted vision
of the mad scientist's new pet.
Remember, win this round
And earn an extra assistant
in the next round.
You have got just 45 minutes,
And the clock starts right now.
- Mad scientist, new pet.
- What are we going to do?
Gotta be a creature
of some sort.
I think a snake would be cool.
Maybe he lost his favorite pet.
He's going to stitch them
together with other animals.
Do three of them, right?
What about a dog face?
That'd be great... maybe we do
A scorpion in the back, too?
Perfect.
I'm heading for the patch,
I've got to get a pumpkin.
The mad scientist's
beloved dog dies,
And he wants him to live on.
So piece of iguana here,
some scorpion there.
Whatever works to make him walk.
Winner winner.
The pumpkin's got
a really good meat on it.
It's a nice, tight grain.
I am going to be
carving the iguana body.
I've got to find
just the right pumpkin
With the right curvature
Because I need to do this
in one piece
Because I don't have time
to patch seams.
I've got to really
cut in the details...
The ribs, the scales.
Then I've got to line it up
with the dog head
And the scorpion tail.
I need mine there
before they can put theirs in.
How far out the back
will your tail stick?
Is that good or bad?
Be better if it was up more.
- Shortening more?
- Yeah.
Steve's going to do
the tail and claws
For the stinging scorpions.
He's going to use
blown sugar for the tail
And he's going to do
pulled sugar for the claws.
- I'm needing three hands.
- Dan, can you build me an arm?
I'm on it.
You got to make that really
look like a zombie, right?
- Yeah. It's going to be scary.
- Zombie dog.
Haymu's going to be
doing the pug head.
She's going to take
a rice cereal ball,
Cover it in modeling chocolate.
She'll go to town
and put in the fine details.
She's going to color the
modeling chocolate as she goes
And then do a final
airbrush at the end.
You guys, I'm making
the big back part there
To go on dan's backside there.
- Oh, his tail.
- Yeah.
The hardest part
about this piece
Is getting steve's sugar
Onto my pumpkin
without breaking it.
Is it going to melt and fall?
But we might have to sit him
on top of this notch.
Amy, you think this is
big enough for the fish?
I think that's definitely
big enough for the fish.
Our mad scientist wants
to make his fish able to walk,
And what better way
to make a fish walk
Than combining him with a duck?
We've got to
make sure that we have time
To put this thing together.
Chad is going to carve
the fish body
And the duck feet
out of pumpkin.
He is going to take the natural
curve of the pumpkin,
In order to create
the curve of the fish,
To make it look like
it's swimming.
The curve looks awesome.
I'm going to start
carving the head.
I'm going to make the fish head
of cake and cover it in fondant.
I'm going to use
a few specialty tools
To add the gills
and all the details in the face.
How are the beakers
coming, janet?
Back in science lab.
Feel like med school
all over again.
Because we really want to set
the scene of a mad scientist,
Janet's going to make
beakers and test tubes.
I may have to adjust
the angle of it some.
I think this tail's
looking pretty cool, though.
I'm liking the way
this body is shaping up.
I just wanted to have
a little bit more height
Out of this cake.
The mad scientist
had his favorite cat,
His sweet little boo,
And so when boo
passed through the veil,
He figures that not only
will he bring him back,
He'll improve him a little bit.
Frankenstein cat.
So I'm thinking
lots and lots of wrinkles
And an ugly mug.
The hardest part is going to be
Getting the head
to articulate in a way
That doesn't look like
a butternut squash
Resting against a pile of cake.
That's pretty close.
Dead on. Nice.
I'll even it out
with the airbrush.
I'm going to match the fondant
to that butternut squash color
So that it's one cohesive unit.
Hey, I'm going to start
from blowing on the tail.
Cesar is taking pulled sugar
And shape it into
a long, sinuous tail.
Deane, how are you
looking on the cat head?
Scary as hell.
It's time to say hello
to your judges.
Award-winning cake artist,
shinmin li.
Hey.
Special effects makeup artist
And horror film director,
todd tucker.
Hey, guys.
And now it's time to say hello
to your guest judge.
From the smash hit movie
"annabelle comes home",
Please welcome katie sarife.
- Oh, cool.
- Wow!
Hi, everyone.
Her movie scared
the daylights out of me.
Dolls, creepy dolls, and no...
Scary.
So, judges,
mad scientist, new pet.
What are you hoping to see?
I would love to see
pieced together animals,
Taking, like, zebra heads
on, like, bunny bodies.
Yeah, I just want to see
just different body parts.
I want to see something
that you wouldn't expect.
- It's got to be scary.
- It's got to be scary.
- Got to be scary.
- Yes, yes.
Got a name for this guy, jeff?
Poly-saurus rex,
How about that? I love it.
Our mad scientist,
he's a genetic mad scientist,
So he takes an iguana, a parrot,
And he threw a piranha
in there, too.
I don't trust the depth of this.
I don't want to break through.
I'm going to have to rely more
on paint for this, guys.
Derek's going to carve
the parrot head from pumpkin.
He looks angry.
That's what we want.
I have to make the body
out of rice cereal treat
Covered in fondant.
I came up
with this technique just now.
Making some feathers on the fly.
The transition from feathers
into scales,
I'll try to do the same thing
on the back of his head
With a pumpkin.
I've got to start
airbrushing this thing.
Joel, you good?
- I'm nervous right now.
I've got to
try to take this out,
And I only got one shot.
The beakers, in itself,
is a huge feat.
Oh, yeah, I got it guys.
You have to blow
the beaker ball,
Then he has to pour another tube
And attach that to
the blown ball for the beaker.
Guys.
Beautiful.
Joel, he is just good.
I hate to pressure you,
but don't forget my teeth.
Alright?
We chew up the competition.
30 minutes, guys.
I still got to make a mohawk.
I don't know if I'm going
to be able to get it done.
Cesar, how are we doing?
How's the mice?
Mice are coming along.
- Stay the course, baby.
- Stay the course.
We're going to come together
at the last minute, haymu,
And it's going to be great.
I trust you, big ogre.
Wow. That really does
look uniform.
Oh, I love it. I love it.
It's going to look cohesive.
I'm just going to put
some more stitches in here.
Boo is stitched together,
So I'm going to take
my groove tool
And then I'll make
little stitches.
And then once deane
has airbrushed it,
Those stitches should pop.
Deane is killing it
on this airbrushing.
It looks great.
- Going with a red head, right?
- Looks good, jeff.
When you're looking
at it aesthetically,
He is going to be
really colorful,
But that little bugger
will eat you alive.
Oh, nice. Okay.
We've got this one guys.
We've got it.
10 minutes left.
I'm going to airbrush the fish
a little bit of orange first.
Make sure that it looks
like that pumpkin
And then I'll add
in some details.
I think we got to
get those mice on there.
We've got to get
the tail on there.
10 minutes, you guys.
We got this.
We got this, you guys.
- Dan?
- Yeah?
So here, look?
We'll stick this over here
like this.
The hardest part is making sure
the pumpkin's in place
Because we're going to slot
the blown sugar tail
Underneath the pumpkin body
to hold it in place.
It's just going to be
held by gravity.
Six minutes left.
Really? I need to get
that back in.
We don't have a lot of time.
- Look out, look out, look out.
Steve tries to
join the tail to the pumpkin.
I look down,
And it sticks out the rear end.
I don't think it'll fit.
It looks bad.
Getting the perfect marriage of
sugar and pumpkin is impossible.
Oh, man.
We don't have a lot of time.
I need to get that stuff
back there.
Our team is making
the mad scientist's beloved dog
Combined with a piece of iguana
here, some scorpion there.
Pick up his back a little bit.
Teamwork.
Steve tries to join
the tail to the pumpkin
And it sticks out the rear end.
I mean, it looks funny.
Yeah, scoop it out.
Poke it under, steve.
I'm going to jam something
underneath him.
Just give me anything.
That'll raise him up a little.
We're painting,
we're trying to make it
Seamless from dark to light.
The color is matching.
We'll just airbrush it more.
Yeah.
Got five minutes left.
- Jeff, you doing good?
- Oh, that looks great.
I've just got to get
the feet on it.
Our mad scientist takes
some of his favorite pets
And combine them
into one creature.
- I've got to get the feathers on.
- We got to get the teeth on.
We've got to get
that on like now.
Here, jeff, got to get this on.
We can't shake
this too much guys,
Because that might slide off.
I'm painting h2o
on the water tanks.
I'm starting the second feet
right now, amy.
Awesome. Have you got time?
We got five minutes left.
- Oh, yeah.
Our mad scientist is literally
creating a fish out of water.
I'm just going to give you
some more bubbles.
Cool, that'll be awesome.
Can you hit these feet
a little bit?
Airbrush them down,
They're going to make them
stand out.
We've still got to get
the isomalt on the board.
Is that something
I could start on?
Sweet little boo
is stitched together
With bits of duck or lizard.
Let me see, where we are
going to put this tail.
This tail does involve
a lot of risk.
You slide that in wrong
and it shatters.
- It's a long piece of wire, man.
- Cut me a wire. Right there.
- Right here?
- Right there.
I'm providing a piece there
to bolster it up.
Okay. I hope that stays.
One minute left.
And then we throw
a little paint right there.
You guys, I've got
to put the beakers.
I got to put the beaker, and
we can't touch it after that.
- Okay.
- I got it. I got it. I got it.
I got it.
- I feel a little fishy.
We're done. We're done.
This is actually
the best angle right here.
5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
Hands off your displays.
- Nice. That actually looks good.
- Whew, lord.
In this small scare,
we asked you to show us
Your spookiest
mad scientist's new pet.
Ghoulicious,
introduce us to your new friend.
This is boo.
The scientist decided that not
only would he reanimate him,
He would improve him a little.
The head is made out of pumpkin,
the body is cake.
We have a sugared lizard tail,
And we have some pulled
sugar mice for him, as well.
He's really cute
in, like, a scary way.
I like the stitching a lot.
The detail on the stitching's
really cool,
And I like the detailing
on this guy's face.
I just would have
liked him to be
In a slightly
more active position
Or it kind of looks like
he might be taking a snooze.
Well I feel like you guys
Are finally getting
proportions right.
I'm not crazy about
his body language.
He's very passive,
And I think it would be
a lot more interesting
If his head were reared up
a little higher.
Now, cesar, you are
so much better than this.
The tail is just super sloppy,
And the mouse doesn't resemble
a mouse to me at all.
It's a nice sculpture.
You got a lot of character
In the body, in the face.
If you go in
and just make those eyes pop,
It's going to help
your character
Because my eye is going
to go to that eye,
And instantly I'm going to start
to enjoy this piece.
Ghoulicious,
thank you very much.
Crave diggers, you're up.
Our mad scientist decided
to combine an iguana
And a parrot and a piranha.
The head is pumpkin,
the tail is our cake portion.
We have sugar feathers that
he ate and also sugar beaker.
I like how you have the tail
going into the bird's wings.
You go from the green to
the blue and a nice transition.
You have to be careful
of positioning.
At first, it kind of felt like
that feather was a nose.
A little confusing for me.
Normally, I'm not such a fan
Of such a static position
Because he's just absolutely
straight up vertical,
But what you did
is you leaned the head forward,
And that brought it
to life for me.
As someone who's acted
in the "conjuring" universe,
The monsters
are the coolest parts.
One of the things that makes him
so interesting is the detailing.
It really feels like
almost a monster gone awry.
Thank you, crave diggers.
Candy corners.
So our mad scientist
was very jealous
Of all of his friends being able
to walk their pets,
And he figured, "why not?
I'll just take my fish out."
So after a few failed attempts,
he finally created gillian.
The white striping in the center
is just everything.
It really just brings it alive
and it breaks up the colors
So that you can really
see the detail
That you put
into the body there.
Where you guys are kind of
falling a little short,
Actually are your smaller,
kind of decorative elements.
I think the sugar beakers
just look really rough.
It's a lot of fun. As far as
the actual character itself,
You have some movement
in the body, which is nice.
If you're going to position
the display this way,
You need to have the head
pointing at us so we can see it.
I like that you kind of
created a scene with this.
I think that's really cool.
Candy corners,
thank you very much.
Mummies' rejects.
Carl is a mad scientist
whose favorite family pet
Was struck down
way before his time.
He scours the country
to find creature parts
To stitch him back together.
The head is rice cereal
and modeling chocolate,
The tail and the front pincers
are blown sugar,
And the body is pumpkin.
I love, love the scorpion claws.
Those are so cool.
I also really like
his under bite.
If you had told me you were
going to make a blue dog,
I would have said
that might not work,
But actually
your color palette here
Works extremely well for me.
Now, the biggest issue
I'm seeing with this right now
Is the fact
that you have two front legs
That don't look
anything like legs,
But I do like this dog,
And I think
you guys did a very nice job.
I love that this character
has such presence.
I like the tail on the back.
I like that it comes
to a nice point,
But the face of it
is just too heavy for me.
It's a really big wad,
And it doesn't make
a lot of sense.
Mummies' rejects,
thank you very much.
Lots of cuddly creepiness
to contemplate.
The judges will need a minute
to think it over.
We deserve to win
this small scare.
We haven't won one yet.
I mean...
I feel we really deserve
to win this challenge
Because we've demonstrated
what a cohesive unit can do.
Coming up...
easy, man.
- Nobody breathe on this thing.
- We wanna terrify those judges.
When you do something,
we want to see it.
Take it up with nature.
For this small scare,
we challenged you
To show us
your most terrifying vision
Of a mad scientist's new pet.
The judges felt
there was one team
Who gave us the most
seamless combination
Of cake, sugar, and pumpkin.
Congratulations...
Crave diggers.
We win it. I mean,
our first small scare,
And we get
that extra assistant now.
Finally got one.
Let's face it.
Life as a monster is tough.
Chasing after people
all day long is exhausting,
And when you try to let loose
at the dance club,
Everybody just runs away
screaming.
That's why we want you
to show us the beastly bonding
That goes down
at a monster support group,
Whether it's a weekly
werewolf poker game
Or a cooking class for vampires.
Just make sure it's healing
and of course...
Terrifying.
And make sure to lay out
some devilishly delicious
doughnuts
For a mid-meeting pick-me-up.
Each of you will be given
one assistant,
And, crave diggers,
You get double the help
You earned from your win
in the small scare.
You have got just five hours.
Get to work.
Alright, guys,
what do you think?
We've got to get them
in this round. First round...
We're winning
in the second round.
We can't lose anymore.
What if it was the
"odd eye fellow society"?
It's for monsters
that have an odd number of eyes.
In a world of binocular beings,
It's hard to have
an odd number of eyes.
Deane, you think you could stack
some pumpkins like that?
Pumpkin, pumpkin,
pumpkin, pumpkin.
I got a lot of pumpkin going on.
Whoa.
I'm just going to roll mine.
Deane is going to be
carving all of the heads.
You don't want me
to give you any faces, deane?
You can give me a face.
I'm using my...
What about this face?
What about this?
Oh, wow.
He's going to be carving
five pumpkins in five hours.
It's a lot of pumpkins.
I'm going to have
the cyclops here
For you pretty soon.
So I'm boiling the sugars.
I got yellow going,
I got metallic blues.
These eyes
that cesar has to pull off
Are a challenge
all of their own.
There's definitely an art to it,
And if you have black
for a pupil
And color for an iris,
And they're not
totally cooled off,
They run together.
That is fantastic.
I'm going to be doing
the bodies of the odd fellows
Using cake, rice cereal treats,
modeling chocolate,
And, of course, fondant.
It's ambitious.
Yay!
- Welcome back.
- How are y'all?
- Good, I'm rachel.
- Rachel!
We get that extra assistant now.
So now we have a lot to get done
That we plan on
in this next spine chiller.
We're going to go
for classic monsters.
We're going to pick frankie,
We're going to do
a female vampire, and a mummy.
We're going to make
a little swamp
Where they can just go
and sit and relax.
I think we'll be all right.
I can still get
that squared-off look.
Frankie's head is really square,
And he really wants to put
a lot of detail in it.
Cause I think some
bubbles on the pond
are going to be nice.
- So it looks like it's boiling.
- Yeah.
Can you make some
and cut them in half,
So they're like half popped
on the surface?
Oh, nice.
That'd be a great idea.
Joel, he's going to be pouring
the entire swamp out of sugar.
The surface of the pond
is really crucial
To make it look like
they're sitting in water.
Ha! This is my best
masterpiece ever.
Frankie's body's going to be
a different challenge
'cause he's not
wearing any clothes.
I'll sculpt him
out of modeling chocolate
And just give him
a good chiseled-looking body.
Abs are just like mine.
Look at that, incredible.
What do you think about this
For the top of the pillar
on each side?
I love it.
Okay, let me know
if I need to help
With that structure
on the bar.
Okay.
After a long day of vampiring,
Our vampires go downstairs
to their favorite bar,
Which is conveniently located
Underneath the local blood bank.
Chad is going to carve
a bat out of pumpkin,
And we're going to have that
hanging from the ceiling.
The taps behind the bar
are going to be bone,
So chad's going to carve
them out of potatoes.
He's going to do them
really, really early on
In hopes that they oxidize
And get that
really old, creepy bone effect.
So this is just
a bloom sheet gelatin.
I added a little bit
of simple syrup.
I want it to be slightly pliable
when it sets up.
Instead of having beer on tap,
We're going to have
blood on tap.
So we're going to use
iv bags from the blood bank,
And I'm going to make those
using gelatin.
So we're casting the sugar,
we're going to make up the bar.
Janet is going to make
the countertop out of isomalt.
It's going to be
a horseshoe-shaped bar
That she's going to have to cast
in several different pieces
In order to make it one unit.
Then she's going to add several
different colors of powder
After she pours it
In order to create
that swirled marble design.
What do y'all think
about this marbling?
- It looks beautiful.
- Yeah.
I'm going to try
to get him assembled
Then I'm going to go
to flinging hair.
We come up with three monsters
That are down
on their scare quotas,
So they go on a weekend
camping trip
To get their head
screwed on right.
This is one of
the biggest pumpkins
That I've ever been
able to carve.
We don't really get them
this big back home.
For rocket, the werewolf,
I need to find a thick pumpkin
Because I want the pumpkin
to support itself.
Trying to cool down
this black sugar
So I can do
some blown sugar ravens.
Steve is going to be
blowing the ghost out of sugar,
But first steve's
going to start blowing
A couple of crows in sugar.
He uses a little bladder
And he'll start airing it up
and shaping it as he goes
And he's got to constantly
put it back under the heat,
Bring it out of the heat.
So, guys, here's a raven.
What do you think?
Oh, looks good.
So haymu's going to make
her big monster out of cake,
Rice cereal,
and modeling chocolate.
She's going to make a stump
for him to sit on
So you can see him
above the fire.
I guess the texture and details
in every art piece...
Yeah, we really got
to step it up this time.
Get our first big win.
Four hours left!
We've got to hurry,
hurry, hurry.
- Alright, guys.
- Yeah!
Ahh! Come on!
- Teamwork, kids, teamwork.
- That's it.
We need to make sure
we win this one
'cause those crave diggers need
to be taken down a notch.
Monster support group.
What are you seeing out there?
I see lots of characters.
This is so exciting because
one of my favorite things
Is to see how these characters
interact with each other.
Every single station
Has at least two or three
characters each,
Which is really cool.
- And they're so different.
These are creatures that
if I was to be in a horror film
With these things, I just would
be absolutely terrified.
I think our surface
is pretty good.
I like watching joel
work his magic.
Don't drop him. Don't drop him.
No, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no.
Well, let's get
that chandelier up there.
I know!
Janet is making the chandelier.
She's going to cast
several different squirrels
And then glue them all together
with more isomalt
In order to create
this 3-d shape.
Amy, how's it going?
I want to make sure
the judges recognize
That they're all
the same kind of creature.
Giving us critique
on the faces not matching up
And I want to make sure
that they match this time.
I'm making the characters
out of cake, fondant,
Rice cereal treats,
and modeling chocolate.
I tried to make him
a little extra creepy.
Definitely going for
spooky this time.
Yeah. I like the pointy
in the clothing
That you got going there.
The more nightmares
we give people, the better.
I want him to appear like
a scary werewolf,
But he's going to be
doing a funny thing
By holding the light
shining up at himself.
I want rocket to be sitting
with his legs crossed,
Holding a flashlight.
It needs to have
that playful side
Where he's looking at it
'cause they're at a retreat.
They're trying to get
their mind right.
That is one giant werewolf
Made entirely out of pumpkin.
This team actually is
the one team
That consistently gives us
a horrifying finished product.
I needed a step ladder
to work on this guy.
I'm too short!
Oh, that's nasty looking.
I am covering this arm
With more modeling chocolate,
rice crispy,
And now I'm going to add
a finishing layer of fondant,
And then I'm going to
detail it with some hair.
Deane, how big is
this pumpkin head going to be?
It's in the refrigerator.
Deane is carving all of
the heads of the odd fellows.
The pumpkin is too small.
I told you, I can't
make the pumpkins
a different size.
That's a really bad
problem, deane.
We've run into some problems
with proportion
Because I have scaled my setup
for a much larger pumpkin.
Was supposed to go on top.
I thought we talked about that.
No.
Unfortunately,
the pumpkin that we have
Is the pumpkin
that we've got to use.
The scale is way too small.
Take it up with nature.
It's not going
to get any bigger.
Damn it.
Listen, look, look,
stop, stop, stop.
I'm not sure how to fix
the scale problem.
Well I'm trying to figure out
now we've got a scale problem
Because the pumpkin
is too small.
Deane is carving all of
the heads of the odd fellows.
That's a really
bad problem, deane.
It's the way pumpkins grow.
I have scaled my setup
for a much larger pumpkin.
Unfortunately, the pumpkin
wasn't the right size.
Deane is already really behind,
so he can't start over.
I'm not sure how to fix
the scale problem, you guys.
Well, you're going to have to
Because the pumpkin
isn't going to get any bigger.
The pumpkin that we have
Is the pumpkin
that we've got to use.
So now I've got to figure out
How to build up
some of that volume
So that we have a creature
without a long neck.
And we're just
going to use those
To build it up a little.
I spent way too much time
On our vampire lady here.
I got to get her
some pointed ears, though.
We're going to
make a little swamp
With a more relaxed frankie,
The female vampire,
and the mummy.
He's going to be
kind of floating in mid-air.
- Is he going to fall?
- I hope not.
So crave diggers,
you have another piece.
It looks like a floating mummy
or a ghost or something.
And they continually defy
gravity with their characters
And always have motion.
It's very cool.
Ah, I'll tell you what.
First time mummy wrapping,
I'm not doing too terribly bad.
The tasting elements
are actually going to be
Spiced pumpkin cake doughnuts.
We roasted a pumpkin
straight from the patch
Over there with some spices.
And then we made
that into a cake doughnut
batter.
And then we did
a cream cheese icing,
With a little splash of bourbon.
Oh, beautiful.
He's going to top this thing
With candied pumpkin seeds
right from the patch.
Ohhh.
Mmm, you've got to
teach me that recipe.
Eric! Eric! Eric: Yeah?
Why so quiet?
Are y'all worried or what?
I'm as worried as I was
in the first two challenges.
We're halfway done.
I've got the torso, legs,
and the head of the wolf done,
So I still have two arms
and a tail.
- Haymu.
- What?
Need a hand?
Haymu has her big monster
built up to the head.
She's got it looking good,
But she still has
a lot of detail to do.
Steve has not quite started
his apparition yet.
Your ghost
better be there, steve.
Wizard's got his magic going.
Cut that wand right there.
This is the bottom part.
I'm going to make a top part
and then a head.
And then he's going to
have teeth coming out.
So he's got a lot
of small sugar work
And a lot of big sugar work,
But I don't think it's been
done on the show before.
- It's cool, right?
- I like those hands, too.
Monsters come out
to mingle in two hours!
Two hours, guys.
What do you think?
We need to start
getting stuff done.
It's going to be
time up before long.
- Dan, we need to hurry up!
- Stay, doggy, stay.
Jeff, I'm just going to
paint him all gray.
Now I'll go in and airbrush and
make them look similar to yours.
Okay? - Okay.
That's really cool.
What is that?
It's corn silk.
You had to dig deep
in the pantry to find that.
Turn him right there.
That's awesome. Awesome.
Alright, guys, I'm going to get
started on the tasting element,
One part of
the tasting element, okay?
So for the tasting element,
Cesar's making
a graham cracker beignet
With a smoked chocolate crémeux.
You're smoking chocolate?
- You're smoking chocolate?
- I'm smoking chocolate.
- I ain't never smoked chocolate.
Well, I'll show you
how to do it one day!
...And a vanilla
toasted marshmallow top.
That's it, nice and toasty,
marshmallowy.
We've got to
get that top on there.
We've got to get the characters.
Alright, chad.
The judges love
that we do full scenes,
So we really want to add
a lot of components
To create
this elaborate bar scene.
Is that centered? Yes.
Chad has to hang the chandelier
very, very carefully.
Alright, let's get
that tabletop.
Have a little faith.
Look how beautiful that is.
- That is gorgeous.
I am grinding up the peanuts
for our tasting element.
For the tasting element,
we want to do
A play off of salty bar snacks.
Chad, I'm glazing the doughnuts.
They're almost ready,
Then I can have you guys
finish off the display.
So we're going to fill
the doughnuts with the red
caramel,
And then we're going to top them
with salted roasted peanuts.
We got this, you guys.
Come on guys, let's go!
We've got to go.
I'm just adding the hoof,
and then I'm done.
- Can we add it on the board?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah!
Haymu's piece is extremely cool,
extremely detailed,
But it's taken her a little
longer than expected to finish.
We need him on the board
So steve can put his
on the board.
Yeah, those look a little dark.
Oh, do they? Actually,
I think they're perfect.
Mm, okay.
Steve's come up
with a doughnut recipe
That I think is really
going to kill them.
It's a s'more doughnut
with chocolate ganache
And crushed graham crackers.
It should taste like
the world's best s'more.
Steve, where do you want to put
the tasting element at?
Ah, let's find
a spot that's open
So we can fill some space.
There's no support group
for losing "Halloween wars",
But one team's going to have
time to start one in one hour.
Come on, let's go.
Let's hustle. Let's hustle.
Just need to paint,
paint, paint, paint.
Making the bar tap handles,
And I'm painting on
the blood types on each one.
So it's like different flavors.
The marshmallow sticks
are right there
If you want to start
stabbing them
With marshmallows and eyeballs.
- Feeling the pressure, guys.
- You got it.
Last hour,
we're putting on lily pads.
Joel's working on the
dragonflies, getting them set.
I don't have time to just
sit here and hold this,
But I have no choice.
We're just trying to button
down all the little stuff
Before we put the heads
on these bodies.
- Got to bury the other teams.
- That's right.
Heather, my flames are ready.
My rocks are ready.
Logs are ready. Uh-huh.
I want everything done
before I start laying down.
Thanks, cesar. We got it.
We know, we know.
Deane, do you have
some heads for me?
I need to be left alone
for about five minutes.
I'm still not really crazy
about the bodies.
That's something that
they struggle with quite often.
They have great pumpkin faces
Because I think they do rely
quite heavily on deane.
Deane, we've got to
get it on there.
We've got to start spraying.
- I need to be left alone.
It's still quite a bit
to come together,
But yeah, it's the same
problem we've had before.
Their bodies look kind of
identical, so very static.
Very little movement in any
of these pieces at this point
And that seems to be
an ongoing theme for these guys.
- Let's go guys. Let's go.
- How about you, cesar?
I'm all set, I'm waiting
on you guys. Let's go!
Wonderful. Yay, cesar!
There's so many things to do.
I'm feeling like literally
chicken with its head cut off.
- Deane-o!
- I'll get back to you.
How are we looking?
Heather, my flames are ready.
My rocks are ready.
Logs are ready.
Wonderful, yay, cesar!
There's so many things to do.
I'm feeling like literally
chicken with its head cut off.
Deane-o, let's go!
Don't be messing with my money.
Deane, how's that
last head going?
It's coming.
I want everything done
before I start laying down.
There's no time
to fix or arrange
Or anything like that.
Really we just have
to keep going.
- There you go.
- We can do this!
10 minutes till you're done!
- Hold on.
- Okay, he's going down now.
That's good. Perfect.
Just be careful. Coming around,
coming around, coming around.
Alright. Just watch.
Just a little worried
about this guy holding up.
Nobody breathe on this thing.
You have one minute left!
What are we missing?
Hit the eyebrows
on the guy sitting down.
Coming through! Hot!
Put some buttercream
on the bottom.
- I'm going to add dry ice, okay?
- Dry ice. Yes. Do it now.
- 10...
- Careful!
- ...9, 8...
- Careful the wings, guys.
Come on you got
to hustle, hustle.
...7, 6, 5...
- Got the tasting element on?
- Scatter that.
...4, 3, 2...
- How are we looking?
- How are we looking?
...1! Hands off your displays!
- Looks good.
- Thanks. Thanks for the help.
In this spine chiller,
the judges wanted to see
The tender side of terror
In a monster support group.
Judges, let's take a look.
Mummies' rejects.
Tell us about your display.
Our three monsters decided to go
on a weekend camping retreat
To clear their heads.
There's no need to take a snack
Because you just dig up
a fresh cadaver
And have brain kabobs.
The wolf is completely pumpkin.
The apparition
is all blown sugar.
The monster in the back
is cake and modeling chocolate.
The crows, the fire,
And wrought iron fence
are sugar.
So what are we tasting today?
We have a s'more doughnut
that's deep fried
With a marshmallow filling
And a chocolate ganache that has
a tiny bit of brandy in it.
I like the texture
of the doughnut a lot.
Very, very light,
But still crispy
around the edges.
But it was overwhelmingly smoky,
So I didn't really
taste sweetness.
I didn't taste
the dark chocolate.
I just tasted smoke.
You guys literally have
three amazing creatures here
And what impresses me
more than anything
Is that one of them is pumpkin,
One of them is cake,
And one of them is sugar.
And the designs
of these characters
Are off the charts, you guys.
The fact that you created this
werewolf out of one pumpkin
And supported its own weight,
you have done him justice.
Haymu, I hate your monster
Because it's so scary
And I actually feel it
under my skin.
And when you create
a physical reaction,
Then you've really succeeded.
I would totally buy him
as a movie monster.
The boils on the skin,
it's gross,
Which is great
because it's horror.
I'm not a fan of the background
Just because it picks up
on the colors
Of the creature in the middle.
Thank you, mummies' rejects.
Candy coroners,
let's talk about your display.
After a long, grueling day,
The vampires all gather
in their favorite bar
In a basement of a blood bank.
The vampires themselves
are carved out of cake,
Rice cereal treats,
modeling chocolate, and fondant.
The bar top is made of isomalt,
As well
as the hanging chandelier.
And the tops of the columns
on the sides are carved pumpkin.
We are serving you
a salted blood clot doughnut
With a blood red caramel,
And then topped
with salted roasted peanuts.
The flavor didn't develop enough
in the proofing,
And that also created kind of
a dry and really heavy doughnut.
But I love the theme.
I love the savory peanuts
on top.
It's really, really appropriate
for the bar scene.
I love your color palette.
I love this kind of
aged feel everywhere.
I think this bar looks amazing.
I'm not crazy
about this character
In terms of the body position.
He seems a little bit
too big for the bar.
The positioning of his legs
Looks like
he should be sitting on a stool.
You have a bit of an empty spot
in the front here.
If you had brought those
two characters on the side in,
So that they were all part
of the visual,
It would have fixed that
and also lost
The empty space
in the front.
Katie.
It just looks like
it's a still from a movie.
They all kind of feel
like they have a story,
Which is interesting.
This guy over here,
Looks like he's had
a really rough day.
Thank you.
Ghoulicious, let's talk
about your display.
In a world
of snotty, binocular beings,
Being a non-typical eyed monster
is really kind of rough.
So these guys
like to take their woes
Out to the middle of nowhere.
The heads are made
out of pumpkin.
The bodies are made
out of cake and fondant.
The eyes are made
out of glass sugar.
The flames are made
out of pulled sugar.
And for the tasting element,
I did a japanese doughnut,
Filled it with
a smoked chocolate crémeux
With just a little
toasted marshmallow.
I wished your doughnut
were a little sweeter,
But what I did like
is I got that smokiness
And that actually just really
tasted like a campfire to me.
I think it's really clear
That these guys
are in a support group.
I love these amazing sugar eyes,
And then I love the campfire.
The flames are expressed
in the right way.
Now, deane, I think what
we love so much from you
Is really
your intricate pumpkin work.
And because you've done
five different pieces
Of pumpkin here,
you didn't get time
To concentrate on
just one character.
One thing that I like
about this right off the bat...
The way you have
the pumpkins stacked,
That was really cool.
One of the issues I have
Is you have
a giant black spot here
With nothing there.
It feels like the balance
of this piece is off.
I really like the expression
on these guys' faces.
They all kind of have
their own story going on.
I think it's a really cute
little campfire
With a group
of quirky characters.
Thank you, ghoulicious.
Crave diggers, you are up.
For our monster support group,
Frankie, dracula, and the mummy
Wanted to come out
for a day at the spa,
So they're sitting there
drinking some wine,
Eating some sweets,
And, of course,
the mummy decides
He's fixing to do a cannonball.
Both hands
are carved from pumpkin.
The bodies are made
from modeling chocolate
And rice cereal treats.
Mummy is made of
rice cereal treats
And modeling chocolate.
All the water, the dragon flies,
And the wine bottles, the glass,
that's sugar.
For the tasting element today,
You have
a spiced pumpkin doughnut
With a cream cheese icing
spiked with a little bourbon
And then some
candied pumpkin seeds.
Joel, the texture
of your cake is so moist,
And then you added
this crunchiness
So it was just really
well balanced
In terms of flavor and texture.
And, eric, you have
a lot of humor in your work,
And you create caricatures
that is truly spectacular.
I love this!
It looks like
such a fun little gathering.
The dragonflies
are just amazing.
The sugar works and the pond
is just really pretty, as well.
Your characters are always
really expressive,
Extremely fun to look at,
And your pieces always
have motion,
But I don't know
this hits the theme.
This feels more like
monster party.
All planning
and all that hard work.
How could we miss
the theme on this? I'm worried.
The judges are going to form
their own support group
And process a winner.
We'll meet you back here
in just a few minutes.
There's so much great work here.
Our display is just not as good
as one of the others.
That's the hair-line difference
Between whether
we go home or not.
Alright, judges,
you're down to four teams.
They are all so dynamic.
We're getting down
to the wire now,
So these guys are really
trying to step it up,
And a couple of the teams
literally blew me away.
Now let's talk about
mummies' rejects.
Wow. Dan's werewolf
made out of pumpkin...
That is one pumpkin...
But that monster in the back,
in the middle, he's so creepy.
I'm definitely going
to have nightmares tonight.
Each one of these characters
are individually
Amazing on their own.
The fact that all three of them
Did one character each
impresses me to no end.
I love that they're all
different creatures
That all somehow fit.
The backdrop was
their biggest issue,
And if they had just
done something
That was a different color
so that I didn't feel like it
Was muddying the rest
of the piece,
It would have helped them.
Now, steve s'mores doughnut
Tasted like
a burnt piece of toast.
It was so smoky,
which is unfortunate
Because I actually think
his pumpkin
Was fried up perfectly.
Now let's
talk about crave diggers.
It looks like a really fun
monster mash party.
I really love those dragonflies.
The characterizations on these
characters are fantastic,
And the finishing on them
is amazing.
The paint jobs, the sculptures.
I think the one thing
that they lacked on this one
Is that the frankenstein
character is gone.
He's so dark that he just
disappears into that background.
Joel's sugar pieces.
Again, not only did he have
Those show-stoppers
in the dragonflies
And then those little
green bubbles in the swamp,
All sugar work, as well.
That pumpkin cake was so moist
And then topped
with the caramelized seeds...
That added a little bit
of savory, a bit of crunch,
And a little bit
of nuttiness to the flavor.
Let's talk about ghoulicious.
I like the humor in this piece,
And I really liked
that they look like
They are the odd eye fellows,
So that does look like
a support group to me.
However, I don't know
If they really thought
about the design overall.
And because he did
five different pumpkin heads,
The details are not really there
Because he had to work on
so many of them,
But I think they interpreted
the challenge
The best in terms of story line.
I feel like
he really stretched himself
By trying to do too many,
And then unfortunately
we had said before
That we want the bodies to be
the level of the heads.
I think he went the other way.
I liked the expressions
on their faces
And the quirkiness
of each character.
I like the three tiers.
Cesar's doughnut
is a little bit cakey,
But that's actually what you
expect
Out of a japanese doughnut.
It's different
from a western doughnut.
However, that being said,
I really loved his marshmallow,
And it had a little bit
of that charred edge,
Which really does
feel like a s'more.
Let's talk about candy corners.
Yeah, I mean, I just
really loved the
whole atmosphere.
Just seems like a really cool
underground speakeasy
I'd love to go to.
But I just wish that
they had brought
The two characters on the side,
Just brought them in so there
wasn't that negative space.
Janet created
some of the most ambitious
Sugar work I've seen.
Not to mention, I love
the blood clot doughnut idea.
However, I thought
it was a little
Just too dry and really heavy.
- It was really dry.
- It should be a lot lighter.
Alright, judges,
one team's going to win
And one team's going home.
- Yep.
- Mm.
Let's bring back our teams.
Teams, for this spine chiller,
We asked you to give us
your scariest vision
Of a monster support group.
In the end, the judges
felt there was one team
Who did all of that
A little bit better
than the rest.
Congratulations...
Mummies' rejects.
Can't feel any better.
We needed this win.
We're tired of being second.
Morale was getting a little low.
This is big for us.
That leaves three teams...
Candy corners, ghoulicious,
and crave diggers.
One of you
just didn't measure up.
I'm feeling, you know, hopeful,
But I'm also really anxious
'cause there are some
definite design flaws here,
But I think we pulled it off.
We put all this thought
into the details,
But we missed
the whole overall theme.
It's really, really, really hard
to say who's going to go home.
It really just depends
at this point
What the judges are looking for.
Ghoulicious...
I'm sorry. You're done
in this Halloween war.
This was a really
tough experience.
There was design mistakes made.
There's no doubt about it.
Congratulations, guys.
The next time you teams meet,
You'll be facing off
For a spot in the finale.
We'll see you soon.
We were capable of blowing
this thing out of the water.
Going to the next Halloween war,
We're going to push ourselves
to be the best.
This season
on "Halloween wars"...
What the heck is going on
with this stuff?
Make sure it's scary.
That little guy to me
is the best character to date
That you guys have done.
In order to make something
terrifying so beautiful,
It's absolutely incredible.
I give him a five-star
experience here
On "Halloween wars".
Atta boy.
I'm super excited to see
what they'll do.