Curio: Cinema Carvings

Alexa here.  Every Halloween I hope to carve a cool pop culture pumpkin, but inertia usually takes over (although this year I was pretty happy with my Jack-o'-Louis C.K.). Here are some of my favorite cinematic jack-o'-lanterns that have inspired me over the last few years. I'm still waiting for someone to step up and create a great Black Swan or Rosemary Woodhouse, though.

Jack-o'-Lecter!
Pan's Labyrinth pumpkins, seen here and here.

A strong Spielbergian carving, seen here.

Click for more, including Miyazaki, Hitchock and Anton Chigurh...

Some Hitchcock wonders, here and here. 

Spirited Away, seen here.

One of the more creative Alien varieties, seen here.

Anton Chigurh, the ultimate monster. Seen here.

Comments

[Craig]

These are great! Thanks Alexa.

[Robert G]

Holy crap. That Vertigo pumpkin is amazing. The best I ever did was my Stay Puft Marshmallow Man last year and I had to use a pattern.

[K]

The Pan's Labyrinth are amazing.

[Nathaniel R]

Robert G -- so agreed on Vertigo pumpkin!

[Fabian]

Don't take offense, Nathaniel. But you have many readers around the world who don't relate to Halloween. Your Horror articles articles were really good, and I would've been delighted to read them spread out in time... but all at the same time and taking up practically ALL your "space"? And they were not just 3! I know Halloween is over, but I certainly hope this is the last!
Again, please think of your international readers, too.

[Robert G]

Fabian, you can blame me for this one. I pitched the Oscar Horror series to Nathaniel as a little limited run thing all throughout October and it snowballed into a Team Experience event. However, it just happened to be that some of us got hit with a lot of outside stuff that meant writing these posts all in the last few days of the month. I'm glad you liked the coverage and I can assure you, with this year's crop of horror films in America, that the rest of the year will be mostly horror free at The Film Experience.