The first two battles have produced
some of the most harrowing monsters...
[wolf howling]
...in the history...
[growling]
...of Halloween Wars.
Now the stakes get even higher...
-[shrieks] -...as all six surviving teams,
captained by their own bloodthirsty former champions,
face off in an all-out clash of the monsters...
[exclaiming]
...to see who moves one step closer...
-[woman] Things are going down. -[man] I'm not touching.
-...to $25,000! -[woman 2] Oh, my God!
[screams] Why?
The most heart pounding season of Hollywood Wars All-stars starts right now.
Congratulations, teams.
Led by your All-star former champions,
you made it past your first monster challenge.
Good job.
-[all cheering] -[evil laughter]
[Jonathan B] Shriek Squad, and Two Ghouls & A Butcher
filled their competition with dread
by winning the first two challenges.
Oh, yeah.
But your journey to the Halloween Wars title
and $25,000,
only gets more terrifying from here on out.
When you think of the ultimate monster,
few are more terrifying
than the fiend who stalks his prey
while they sleep.
The killer with the metal claws
from the legendary classic,
Nightmare On Elm Street.
We're talking Freddy Krueger.
[all cheering]
[Jonathan B] Now in celebration
of the 40th anniversary
of the supernatural slasher,
we want you to imagine
your own unique nightmare
come to life.
And to up the stakes in this round,
each team must include some Hollywood magic
by using at least one special effect
that is integral to your story.
If you think that's scary, just wait.
Because for your tasting element,
each of you have been randomly assigned different flavors
that would keep any food artist
up all night.
Two Ghouls & A Butcher, you get...
garlic.
[laughing]
Okay.
[Jonathan E] Stay away from me.
[Jonathan B] Delectable Demons...
black licorice.
Oh.
[Jonathan B] Killer Instincts... seaweed.
Death By Deco...
olives.
Why?
[Jonathan B] Scream Of The Crop...
-ketchup. -Oh.
[laughing]
Shriek Squad...
fermented plums.
-I don't know. -Ugh.
Incorporate these nightmare ingredients
into a sweet treat
that would have Freddy Krueger himself
giving his compliments to the chef.
[laughing]
You've got just seven hours.
-Go. -[chuckles]
Freddy Krueger. Yeah, I love that.
-Man, what scares me? -[Eric] Nightmare.
Nightmare On Elm Street.
Nightmare has to spring from some sort of fear.
Probably something like spiders.
Like, what do you dream? What kind of nightmares do you have?
Losing my teeth.
-[chuckles] -Worse than losing your teeth is having them pulled.
-Oh, that's good. -Someone's pulling them out.
For our story, we decide that Anna
has a living nightmare of the tooth fairy,
the tooth collector.
I can make a tool table that moves.
-Like, it's all of his tools... -So, like a tray
-that has his tools on? -...that he rotates through.
I always, like, was freaked out as a child,
like, thinking my toys came to life.
-Ooh. -They were, like, under the bed type stuff.
Anything under the bed, like... you know.
-Oh, getting pulled? -Dragging you and stuff.
[Al] So the idea is,
Emily is an artist
and she absolutely loves drawing scary pictures before bed.
But tonight she finds herself being swept into the wings of terror.
-[Kyle] Freddy Krueger. -You know, he's got his look.
-Yeah, yeah. He's burned. -We could do frostbite.
I could probably do something
where it looks like she's blowing ice out of her mouth.
We're going to create
Freddy's cousin Frieda Frostbite.
Freddy died from fire.
So Frieda is going to be abandoned in the mountains
where she froze to death.
Aliens?
Aliens could work.
-When you have a dream, nothing really makes sense. -[Shellane] Uh-huh.
So how do we make this, like, weird and creepy?
The UFO is in the shape of a doughnut.
We're going to have Carl, our character,
who is a doughnut shop owner,
abducted by aliens in his nightmare.
-[Emerlie] Ooh! Okay. What about special effects? -[Alan] Done.
What can we do for special effects?
Can we make, like, a levitating doughnut?
I think it can be done.
Maybe not quite a spider but more of like, a...
-mutation of one or a spider creature. -Like, more like, alien-esque.
-[Kristina] Like a spider creature? -Right.
Where are they crawling around?
Well, you know, in Texas they're all over
the farms, the barns, the sheds.
-Shed. -Oh!
-Every time I go to the shed to get something. -The shed.
The story for our piece will be...
farmer John, who follows a green slime path to the door,
and when he opens it, he encounters his worst nightmare.
So maybe we can do, like,
uh, someone's having a nightmare about the ocean
-or drowning or... -And it comes to life
and you're all of a sudden in that, right?
-Yes. So maybe like... -That could scare you about Freddy Krueger.
So the story of the design this week is...
the pumpkin carver falls asleep
where he's carving a serpent
and then when he wakes up, the serpent is attacking him
and his nightmare is the water in the background
and it's just kind of melting,
so you see two different worlds.
[together] Killers!
-Let's go. -[all laughing]
-[Eric] You're gonna come with me. -Oof.
Gonna make a torso of our victim out of this,
and sandwich pieces for her head.
Everything out of the same pumpkin.
[Briea] Eric's gonna do the victim
with their mouth wide open,
getting a tooth ripped out.
And Shannon immediately starts sculpting the tooth collector.
So I'm just forming this rice cereal over this pipe
and securing it down to make a base for my skull.
[Eric] Does anybody like black licorice? Anybody?
-[Briea and Shannon] I do. -[Eric] You both do?
-I love it. I love black licorice. -Yeah, love it.
[Briea] It's go time for the tasting element.
All I can think about is a brownie.
[Eric] Briea, what are you planning on doing exactly?
Maybe I should use it like you use chocolate chips and a brownie?
I'm also gonna chop up all that licorice,
infuse it into the syrup.
That's for the pâte à bombe.
It's where you take egg yolks
and some cooked down boiled sugar,
chopped up licorice and some water.
And I cooked all those ingredients to soft ball
and now I'm pouring them in my mixer.
Guys, this is gonna be one chewy brownie.
I've put a lot of love into this one.
Oh, my gosh. That looks amazing.
The goals of this wing is converting the backboard
as part of, uh, the piece.
Right off the bat, I'm gonna be...
using some of the backboard
to look like wings of the raven.
I'm sculpting some modeling chocolate
and then brushing with a black buttercream.
Matt right now is making the crow's chest.
Have no room for mistakes on this.
So we're gonna hit it hard.
[Al] Yeah. We feel like the underdogs.
Yeah. Feel a little bit like the underdogs.
We wanna change that today.
[Al] Because we'd hid some of the pumpkin last time.
The goal I have as team captain
is to really let Matt put out his first
pumpkin structure character.
-Matt, that's looking badass, man. -[Matt] Okay.
-Okay. -[Al] Yes.
I'm gonna make Frieda's skull right now.
First thing I start doing is I start building Frieda.
I'm using modeling chocolate because
it's a little bit more forgiving.
The way that I'm building her is gonna be gravity-defying.
Because she's actually in motion of reaching out.
[straining]
I'm really good at anatomy.
I use my thumbs a lot of the times.
What I do is I bring everything in
to get the basic shape
and then I just fine detail it afterwards.
[Blood Stain] This is gonna look awesome, Kyle.
[Kyle] Yeah, it is.
[Blood Stain] I'm gonna start with these little butternut squashes
and I'm gonna make the hands out of them.
[Kyle] For this challenge, Blood Stain's gonna go a little bit smaller
than she did on the last one.
I think it'll help her get her into her groove again.
She can bust out all the little details
that show what an artist she actually is.
I've already got two hands here.
It's been maybe five minutes,
and I can throw more detail into it as I go.
-Ooh, yeah. That's beautiful. -[Shellane] Yeah. Good.
-Oh, that's lovely. -[Alan] Mmm-hmm.
[Shellane] Alan is going to make this massive pumpkin UFO.
[Alan] I'm gonna use the entire pumpkin to create
this insane nightmare UFO.
[Shellane] And Emerlie is starting on the tasting element.
So what you making, Emerlie?
Eclairs because I want it in that classic doughnut shape
but you can't really fill the rounded doughnuts without a center.
Because our display
includes the storyline of doughnuts,
we're going to include our tasting elements
amongst the other doughnuts on our piece.
It feels so good to have won. I feel like...
we're even in a better space than we were...
-in our last challenge. Yeah. -I feel better about this episode.
-Yeah. -Yeah.
My main focus is making Carl, our character, out of cake.
I know Carl's gonna take almost seven hours to complete alone.
Arm massage.
[blows raspberry]
I need to get started on my spider immediately
because it's gonna be a lot of work.
I want the spider to have a nice smooth texture.
It's a lot of hand sanding. It takes a lot of carving.
Do you wanna see the nest?
[Gina] Yeah. It's looking great.
I can't wait to see everything on It.
This is the head of a big, uh, sea serpent
that's gonna be coming out and-and getting this pumpkin carver guy.
[Teresa] Mike is gonna carve a serpent purely out of pumpkin.
[Mike] This is my favorite tool. It's super sharp and scary,
so you can really get in there
and make good curves and good slices.
[Gina] So you just take some royal icing
and take our fondant tile.
Gina's gonna make the floor out of fondant
and the backdrop is gonna be also out of fondant but layered,
almost like a topographic effect.
-Fits? We clear over there? -Yeah.
[Teresa] Doing the tasting first so you don't freak out on me.
I start with the tasting first
because it's four hours start to finish.
I am making a brioche for my tasting element
and it's a sweet dough, so...
We love seaweed!
We get seaweed.
We're gonna make brioche
that's filled with diplomat cream
and I also got these little gooseberries furikake on top.
Have that brioche open so it looks like a little clam.
All right. Here we go. You guys, I'm putting this up top of the oven
so it could proof properly.
Teams, you have six hours left.
It's a big day on Halloween Wars.
We have all the teams together at last going head to head.
So we have Shriek Squad and Two Ghouls & A Butcher
who have already won previous challenges.
Scream Of The Crop and Death By Deco were in the bottom.
So they're really gonna have to bring it
if they wanna go head to head with these other challengers.
Yeah, and, interestingly,
they're sort of, you know, landing at the bottom
really was pinned on pumpkin work.
We had Scream Of The Crop that did incredible
-cooking work actually. -[Shinmin] Oh, yes. Oh, yeah.
[Aarti] And then they painted it red and suddenly
-we couldn't see it anymore. -[Shinmin] Right.
And then we've got Death By Deco.
We could see that Matt Is an incredibly talented artist.
-He's the pumpkin carver. -[Shinmin] Mmm-hmm.
[Aarti] But we saw it in the modeling chocolate piece...
-[Shinmin] Right, right. -...instead of in the pumpkin.
So we're aching for pumpkin work.
[Al] The pumpkin's taken really good to the color, Matt.
-[Matt] Yeah? -[Al] Yeah.
Matt right now is making the crow's head.
[Matt] With my background in character design,
the core of character design is-is shapes.
And so what I'm looking for is sharp points.
What's really cool about Matt
is he is a digital animator.
And I think that kind of creativity
is really gonna bring a different genre to the game.
How we coming along, Matt?
[Matt] Coming along. We're getting there.
[Al] Are you starting to see the bed?
[laughs] Oh, my gosh.
[Al] The bed, I'm gonna be using some cereal treats and fondant.
So I roll out a huge big piece of blue fondant
and I have this really cool basket weave texture roller.
Oh, yes. That's perfect.
[chuckles] This is gonna be cool.
[Briea] Eric has to do what's known as a takeaway method.
As you carve into a pumpkin,
you're taking more and more away.
I'm so thankful I have a very knowledgeable pumpkin artist on our team.
-Look at-look at it. -[Briea] It's so perfect.
[Shannon] I am sculpting these peanuts into teeth,
and I'm actually sculpting, like, how there's a root,
you know, if you were to get it pulled as an adult,
there would be a deep root.
Briea, come and look at these teeth. What do you think?
-Teeth. -What?
What is that?
[Shannon] Those are peanuts.
-[Briea] No way. -[Shannon] Yes.
That's amazing, Shannon.
-I didn't even know you could do that. -Thank you.
-[laughing] Thank you. -[Briea] That's so cool.
[Shellane] How's it going, Alan?
It's going pretty good.
-[Shellane] Good. -I'm excited to get this done.
[Shellane] Alan starts carving
all the details in the UFO.
Gears and buttons.
I think that Alan really is going for it,
and he's taken two giant...
-[Jonathan B] Mmm-hmm. -...bad boy pumpkins.
This is gonna be so heavy
and it's right there on the very top
of everything on their display.
[Alan] Okay. Alien's on.
[Shellane] Alien's on. Yay.
-That's what I'm up here for. -There you go.
[Alan] Yeah. And then move towards me.
[grunts]
So, we're gonna start on our mold for...
the pumpkin carver's head.
I've decided to make Mike the pumpkin carver,
but he doesn't know it yet.
So don't tell him. [chuckles]
So we're starting with the skeleton
just to get the features right and in the right place.
Um, so we're doing with, uh, candy coating.
Gina comes up with this great idea.
Why don't we do a pumpkin carver that looks like Mike?
Gina's gonna make Mike
out of modeling chocolate.
All right. I'm gonna make the pastry cream, guys, for the diplomat cream.
The tasting element is going to be a brioche
filled with crème diplomat.
I also got these little gooseberries
and sauté those with a little sake.
We get seaweed.
Furikake is better than just plain seaweed.
So I'm gonna embrace the furikake on top.
[Jamie] I'm gonna be building this guy as fast as humanly possible.
I'm going to start coloring our spider creature.
I have to get color on this spider
and I'm going to be using luster dust on the pumpkin.
Our team is really excited to have won the first challenge,
but now we're with the best of the best here
and we're still gonna have to continue
giving it our all if we wanna make it through.
-Okay. All hands on deck. -Yeah.
-Tell me what I'm doing. -Yep. Just put it, like, right on.
[Jonathan E] It's on. That's not going anywhere.
Here's a nightmare.
You only have four hours left!
-Four hours. -Four hours, guys, four hours.
-Let's go, let's go. -[Sarah] Oh, my God!
[Blood Stain] I'm just gonna make these little faces now.
[Kyle] Blood Stain's gonna make little snowdrifts out of pumpkin
that have people
pushing through the ice, trying to escape.
[Blood Stain] I am painting the little ice birds.
So I'm gonna do dark around them first
and then white over top to really pop them out.
I don't want them to say that everything melds together.
I gotta try to plug this vacuum in
so I can get my fog machine going,
so I can get my ice breath out of Frieda's mouth.
[Blood Stain] Ooh, there it goes.
-All right. -[Sarah] All right. It works.
[Mike] I got a little motor and I'm hoping to make a jaw
go up and down on this guy.
We need to have a special effects for this challenge
and we think about the opening and closing of the mouth
with the isomalt jaw.
The face for the serpent is coming together
but Mike also has carved the body purely out of pumpkin.
He's literally cutting, like, rings of pumpkin
and kind of wrapping them around this rod.
It's a great way to create that shape.
[Mike] Once we hit this with the airbrush,
it'll really turn into a completely different creature.
[Aarti] I think it's cool that this team
-is sort of doing this really matter kind of design. -[Shinmin] Yeah.
[Aarti] There's a pumpkin carver.
Could it be a pumpkin carver we know on that team?
That's cute. I like it.
[Mike] So we had discussed doing kind of an every man pumpkin carver.
Clearly, Gina went with more, like, a Clooney look.
So that's fine. It was a choice.
And I respect it.
Fermented plums kind of taste like...
vinegary and very, very salty.
I'm gonna try to play off the saltiness with sweet.
Today, Jonathan is going to create
a baklava-inspired cheesecake
with a fermented plum.
And a date coulis and a pistachio feuilletine crust.
So my family's from Iraq.
And we use tahini date syrup in everything that we do.
So I figured it'd be nice to kind of tie in all those things.
I am making my cheesecake filling now.
This is gonna be what ties all the flavors together.
[Kristina] He's gonna be forming it in the same spherical shape
as our spider eggs.
Put a little tahini.
Mom would be happy.
Think that cheesecake actually is pretty smart
to kind of add a little bit of weight and fluff,
and soft pillow, if you will,
for the really, really sharp plum to come through.
[Jonathan E] They're gonna go in the freezer and they're gonna set up later
so I can mirror glaze them.
[Emerlie] You guys can smell that?
I can smell 'em for sure.
Our nightmarish ingredient is garlic.
I don't understand how that's gonna pair well with anything.
I want this fruity flavor to pop out
and hopefully it will pair with garlic.
[Shellane] Emerlie is going to make
a sweet chili mango eclair doughnut.
I'm gonna fill it with a whipped curd.
It's gonna have garlic, it's gonna have mango, ginger.
All sorts of flavors.
Emerlie, unfortunately, she's not that big a fan of garlic.
[Shinmin] By using it as a top flavor,
we are gonna get that taste right away.
Then to have the sweetness of the mango chili
kind of come and back that up,
I think it's actually a smart choice.
There we go.
I have to layer our cake,
fill it with ganache, ice it,
and cover it with modeling chocolate.
To emphasize the nightmarish part of our story,
we're going to have Carl's belly
bursting open with doughnuts.
This guy is giving me a run for my money.
[Eric] Briea, it looks beautiful.
-No, it's good. It's good. -[Shannon] Perfect.
-It's fine. -Let me smell it.
Oh, that smells good actually.
-Smells like licorice. -Yeah.
I'm gonna make this tasting element look like a tooth.
[Briea] My brownie is delicious
and tastes like black licorice,
but the flavor notes are too dark.
And dipping it in white chocolate
is gonna make it look like a tooth
and add the sweetness that I'm missing.
[Shannon] It looks so good. Oh, my God.
Good job.
[Eric] Hey, I freaking love this.
I don't know what it is but I just love it.
[Shannon] So impressed.
-[Eric] Good. -[Shannon] You're a superstar.
What do we see happening right here with Delectable Demons?
How can you ignore this insane pumpkin face
-that Eric was working on? -[Aarti] It's so good.
-It looks like skin. You guys... -[Jonathan B] Yeah.
...you never see this kind of texture on pumpkin.
Pumpkin is so wet.
-[Jonathan B] Right. -[Shinmin] And he really knows how to work that paint
to create this super matte finish.
It's so difficult. He knows what he's doing.
[Eric] Okay. I gotta start adding teeth now.
Stay with the peanut theme.
Give me your profile.
Yeah. Close enough. [laughing]
[Kristina] Jamie's working on farmer John
and she's starting to sculpt the face.
Jamie has an incredible talent to sculpt faces
to have realistic expressions,
and that's something we'll really need from farmer John.
[Jonathan E] Nice.
[Teresa] Oh, yeah. We have to remember the special effect ooze.
-[Jamie] The what? -[Teresa] The special effect ooze.
For our special effect, we want to make
the spider look like the mouth is squirting
when it bites into farmer John's arm.
To do this, I'm going to utilize tubing
and a submersible pump
to sort of push that green watery liquid out
to make it look like it's squirting.
I think we'll be good if we only have it coming out one side.
[Jamie] Okay.
I have my lovely ketchup here that I'm gonna add
right into my sugar syrup for the marshmallow.
Last time my miso wasn't forward enough in my dessert.
So this time, I really want to make ketchup the star.
Sarah Arnold is gonna make
a honey ketchup marshmallow
with a sweet tomato jam in the center
and a sweet potato chip on top.
And the whole thing is gonna resemble
frozen fingers stuck in a snowdrift.
[Sarah] I think I'm gonna toast the marshmallows
so that way they actually look dark
and burn and frostbitten.
Cheers.
Nice ketchup. Mmm.
-That's pretty good. -That'll work.
Right now, I am working on
the young victim's head.
I'm naming her Emily, the artist.
I sculpt Emily with some modeling chocolate
and dress her in fondant clothes.
I'm being conscious of making her eyes wider.
You can convey it's a little bit on the... cartoony side.
But still, I want to make sure there was fright in her face.
[exhales]
Oh, Lord.
I-- [coughs]
I don't know. [gagging]
Our nightmare ingredient, we get olives.
I'm a little concerned because Becky is like,
gagging while just talking about olives.
[gagging]
[Becky] I'll try them once I get them mixed with the fig and the wine.
So Becky has this idea about adding fig to the olive
which, I love fig. So we're going to make
a shortbread cookie base,
mascarpone cheese,
a fig and olive jam
with rosemary olive oil.
[Becky] All right, here we go. I'm trying this jam.
[Al] All right.
That's good. [laughing]
-I'm eating olives, Al. -[Al] See?
We're going to incorporate all these ingredients into the piece
by putting them on a little sugar paint palette.
I'm putting on the, uh, fig and olive jam.
Wanna hear something scary?
Three hours to go.
Three hours?
[Emerlie] It's not very often I get to touch modeling chocolate.
Along with our doughnut tasting element,
Emerlie is using modeling chocolate
to create decorative doughnuts.
But she actually makes an icing
because that's what you use on real doughnuts.
It gives it a realistic effect.
I want to cover this in modeling chocolate
so it can look like all these other doughnuts I'm making.
[Shellane] We decide to use these magnets to have a floating doughnut.
We think this is really gonna take our piece
above the level of everybody else's.
[Emerlie] Let's start with a good layer.
No.
It's... it's close.
So if it's pulling that way,
so maybe take some of the weight off of that side.
This is a key piece on our design
and I don't wanna go home because it doesn't work.
This does not wanna balance.
We could take this off.
We might just have to stick to the shape of it
and we could spray it with cocoa butter
so it's still covered in an edible medium.
This is really sensitive,
so I think that's really smart.
We'll do a really thin layer of cocoa butter.
That's the problem with special effects.
You never know if it's gonna turn out.
[Blood Stain] This one's crazy.
I'm afraid to say it.
There's only two hours left until time's up.
Come on, Shannon.
We gotta move on from the figure and start doing the bust.
[Shannon] I will, I'll get there.
[Briea] So Shannon has to stack over 12 sheet cakes
to get the height of this monster.
Instead of draping it with fondant,
I'm going to drape it in wafer paper.
So you wet the wafer paper down,
but very quickly you counteract the moisture
with cornstarch.
It turns it into like a very fabric-like texture.
Okay, now watch the magic.
[Briea] Oh, my God, it looks like gauze.
[Eric] This stuff looks cool though.
[Shannon] Yeah, I think it's looking good at least, right?
It's looking drapey.
You know, the very last time I made tools
was for season four, episode three with Kyle
for our Mummy versus Egypt piece.
And I'll never forget,
Shinmin said my sugar was over-pulled.
We're doing a take on an evil tooth fairy.
And of course, what goes with teeth?
A bunch of dental equipment.
So I have to make those out of sugar.
Look at that shine.
No way it could be over-pulled with shine like that.
[Shannon] It's beautiful.
So right now we are going to just test the mechanism
before I start putting all the other elements on.
The special effect we're going to be using in our cake
is one of the wings are going to be flapping away.
So we're going to be using a turntable
and putting it in the right spot
is really important for this piece.
So the bed will fit right here.
It's actually perfect right there.
[Becky] Okay. It'll stop right there.
Hot stuff coming through.
[Mike] Mmm, smells good.
We got to get stuff on that bottom jaw, dude.
Let's talk about Teresa over at Killer Instincts.
In another shocking Halloween Wars twist,
Teresa is running behind on the tasting element again.
[Aarti] Is it shocking?
[Shinmin] And she started the tasting in the first hour.
Not making this sugar jewel was a pivotal element.
This is a special effect.
This is where all the terror comes in on that serpent.
'Cause I don't have time, I got to get this done.
Can you help Mike do that?
-[Gina] Yes. -Thank you.
[Mike] We need to cover the wire with something.
-Even if it's rice paper. -[Gina] I got it, I got it.
So right now I'm trying to make a bottom jaw
with the rice paper.
[Teresa] Oh, that's great.
-That's great. -Yeah.
[Jonathan E] I am currently making spider balls out of gelatin.
So they're gonna have this like really slimy green color.
They're gonna jiggle like a crazy egg,
like an egg sack.
So it's gonna look really cool.
It's gonna give it like a different type of texture
that's on the actual display.
It's gonna have a really amazing result.
It'll be slightly translucent.
The light will show through.
We don't want to just create any old spider nest.
We really want this nasty mutant nest
filled with different stages of our spider eggs.
[Jonathan E] I am pouring a mirror glaze
on my spider egg tasting element.
So it's like slimy, but not slimy.
[Blood Stain] Oh, Kyle.
I need you to see something.
It's super important that we get all the details obvious.
Last week, the judges said the detail was muddled
because of the color pattern.
So we're painting it to make sure that
all the highlights are there.
The sculpting on Frida's body,
you can see all the musculature,
all the details that were lost in the previous challenge.
-Now we have it front and center. -[Aarti] Yeah.
[Shinmin] The hair, it's just a touch of pulled sugar
-and it comes all the way down to her hips. -Yeah.
[Jonathan B] Also, Frida is gonna have lights in her eyes
and her heart, which is frozen,
is going to be lit up from lights.
-[Blood Stain] Oh. -[Kyle laughs]
[Alan] Let me finish the UFO.
We're adding a pretty unrealistic interpretation
of a UFO.
It's not black and silver.
Like it looks like a doughnut, which is insane. [laughs]
[Alan] Oh my God, he's got highlights.
Oh my gosh, Shellane, beautiful.
[Shellane] I'm gonna need help getting this on there.
Be careful not to hit him, cause he's still wet.
Are you guys good? 'Cause I have to let go.
-[Alan] I got him, I got him. -[Shellane] Yeah.
[Shinmin] The pole is actually inserted into the body
behind him in the back.
So it really looks like there's nothing
-supporting him from underneath him. -Yeah.
[Shinmin] It really looks like he's floating.
One hour left until all your nightmares...
...or dreams come true.
[Jonathan E] I'm working on a handsaw.
[Kristina] Jonathan will be creating a plethora of tools for us.
He really will be setting the scene with sugar.
Jonathan's goal is to make these items look aged.
[Jonathan E] Can't believe this is sugar.
This scares me so much.
Oh my God, it scares me watching you hold this.
Jonathan makes an amazing pitchfork out of isomalt.
It looks great.
It's gonna be wonderful with Farmer John holding it.
[Jonathan B] Looking good, guys.
[Jamie gasps]
[gasps]
[Jamie] So I had a little accident.
Sugar doesn't really like sharp motion.
I'll just redo it.
I'm making this pitchfork again
because unfortunately it got broken.
Luckily, I'm able to get it done really fast.
[Jonathan B] Oh, that looks even better than the first one.
-Jamie, pitchfork's done. -[Jamie] Yep, yep.
Nice.
Please don't break it this time.
[laughs] Oh, no guarantees.
You have 30 minutes left! 30 minutes.
[Al] All right, let's get this guy on.
Details really are the key
and I want to etch into the wood
some of the nail scratches
where Emily is getting completely dragged in.
[Sarah] Uh, we should put her fingers on now.
[Kyle] So Sarah's working on icicle fingers for Frida
and she's making them long and twisted and pointy
and they just look dangerous.
It scares me just thinking about holding them.
[Sarah] Oh, my God, she's so scary looking.
Five minutes left.
This is it. Come on.
[Sarah] All right, five minutes guys.
Wow.
[Jonathan E] Oh, Jamie, what about all this webbing?
-[Jamie] Yes. -[Kristina] The webbing. Go, go, go, yeah.
Currently this is a web caster.
[Kristina] So Jonathan is going to incorporate
the tool that he made
and it's going to spin sugar webbing all around our piece.
You have one minute left.
[Sarah] We should also get the fingers in there.
-[Jonathan E] Yeah, any touch ups. -[Kristina] Okay.
-[Jonathan E] I love it. Nice. -[Kristina] Love that.
[Jonathan E] These are little details.
[Kristina] Super gross. Okay.
[Jonathan E] It's just dripping.
[Emerlie] Looks good, looks good.
-[Becky] Al. -[Al] Yo.
[Becky] These are going down.
[Al] I'm not touching.
Cut, cut, just cut it.
Ten, nine, eight,
seven, six, five...
-[screams] -[Jonathan B] ...four...
[Shannon] Shove it in good, shove it in good.
...three, two, one, time's up.
[cheering]
Delectable Demons, tell us about your nightmare.
[Briea] Anna was always scared of the tooth fairy growing up.
And as she's grown up,
she's manifested her own nightmare,
the Tooth Collector.
The entire woman is sculpted pumpkin.
Shannon was in charge of the entire Tooth Collector.
I was in charge of all the sugar piece dental tools.
Eric, I want to talk about your pumpkin work.
You have such a great technique
and such a great hand with your pumpkin work.
I look at it and I forget I'm looking at pumpkin.
And Briea, I love all the sugar work that you created.
The pointer tool looks so sharp.
I feel like if I touched it,
-I would prick and get a bloody finger. -Ooh.
Let's focus on the Tooth Collector, Shannon.
-Unbelievable job here. -Thank you.
The ding-dang peanut teeth.
The fact that you left the roots of the teeth showing
is probably the grimmest part of the whole thing for me.
I think you could have pushed yourself
just a little bit on the special effects.
I mean, there is stiff competition in this room here.
So I would have liked maybe a little more
creativity with your special effects.
So what are we trying today?
[Briea] Our ingredient was black licorice.
It has a licorice brownie.
And of course to add to the sweetness,
it's dipped in white chocolate to look like a tooth.
-Ow, got a cavity. -[all laugh]
This is a really decadent, fudgy brownie.
I get the chew of the licorice in there,
but I'm afraid that because your chocolate is so beautiful,
I think it's disguising the black licorice.
I agree with Aarti.
The licorice flavor is not front and center,
but there is an aftertaste, which I really enjoyed.
Delectable Demons.
-Thank you so much. -[all] Thank you.
[Shellane] Our piece tells the tale of Carl,
who is a local doughnut shop owner.
He follows a trail of doughnuts.
So Carl goes and gets himself abducted
and he becomes an all you can eat doughnut buffet.
[laughing] Oh, my God.
-Because as you know... -[all] You are what you eat.
-Oh, my God. -Oh.
It's a PSA too.
-[all laugh] -Classic Carl.
[laughing]
Let's talk about levitation.
I have never, ever seen levitating doughnuts or cake
of any kind ever.
I don't know how you do it.
He is so realistic.
The limbs just like falling off.
I don't fully know what it looks like
to splay open a belly and find doughnuts,
but I imagine it looks just like that
because you are so great at anatomy.
With the pumpkin, I think that it's carved really well.
I love your little alien sticking out of it.
I don't think there's enough contrast
in the way that you paint it.
So I think that you need to bring your highs higher
and your lows lower.
Tell us about your tasting element.
Our nightmare ingredient was garlic.
So I went with a sweet chili mango,
eclair doughnut.
And then I filled it with a sweet chili mango whipped curd.
It's topped with a mango glaze and diced mangoes.
[laughs]
[Aarti laughs] That's a lot of garlic.
I think one of the smartest things you did
was adding that fresh diced mango on top.
Cause that burst of sweetness and acidity and just juice
kind of washes away some of that strong garlic flavor.
So much like your display, this doughnut is cheerful.
It's happy. It's pretty.
It's precious.
And you bite into it and it is twisted and funky.
You did your job.
Two Ghouls and a Butcher.
We're gonna leave before we get sucked up into that spaceship.
[Aarti laughs] Let's go, let's go.
[Kristina] Farmer John, he follows a green path of slime to the door.
And when he opens it,
he suddenly encounters his worst nightmare.
We have several tools that were cast out of sugar.
A pumpkin spider.
Jamie sculpted the Farmer John
out of modeling chocolate and fondant.
[Aarti] Oh.
-[Kristina] Is it working? -[Jonathan B] Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
-It looks so disgusting. -[Kristina] How did it look?
Okay, um, that special effect is really interesting.
It was gross.
The three of you are so talented.
Jonathan, there's so much sugar work.
I particularly love all the tools
and the interlocking chains.
Jamie, the farmer is so clean.
But here are the things that are not as successful.
This is reading very muddled to me.
The separation of your parts are not as crisp
and not as clear or as precise.
Some of the details are not as refined
as what you've done in your last challenge.
There are some beautiful bits here.
I love that risky move there, Jonathan,
with the fan and the isomalt.
Jamie, beautiful details there in the face and the arm
and even sort of the seams of his overalls.
Kristina, I mean spiders are gross enough, dude.
But then you make it giant
and you make it ooey gooey and slimy.
What are we tasting today?
So our flavor we were given was a fermented plum.
So I made a baklava inspired cheesecake
with a fermented plum and date syrup filling coulee
and a phytoene and pistachio crust.
It works, dude.
I really think that it was smart that you paired
that fermented plum with date.
It kind of just tempers some of the spiky sourness
of the fermented plum.
It's wonderful.
That fermented plum,
that's actually part of my heritage.
I grew up with fermented plums.
The only thing that I would add to this
is a little bit more salt to the plum
because I think what makes the fermented plum really sing
is the balance of the sweet and the salty.
It wavers back and forth, back and forth.
Thank you.
Shriek Squad, thank you so much.
-Thank you, guys. -Thank you.
-[Kyle] I'd like to introduce you to Frida Frostbite. -[shivers]
She's actually Freddy's long lost cousin
from way up north.
Instead of dying in a fire,
she actually got abandoned on a hike
where she froze to death.
Frida is made out of rice cereal treats,
modeling chocolate, fondant.
All the snowdrifts in the back are made out of pumpkin.
Her fingers, her eyes, her heart,
and the tasting element are all made out of sugar.
-I'm not down with this family whatsoever. -[all laugh]
I don't wanna see any more members of this family ever.
Sarah, Blood Stain, your pumpkin work
is something that I've never seen before.
You gave us the sense of things
pushing through a surface.
For your special effect, even looking at your display,
I am so cold looking at it.
I have the chills, so that was super effective.
You went in with deep, deep shadowing.
You went with highlights, lowlights,
all the musculature and the movement,
this dynamic body structure completely sings.
All the details are bright and clear.
I love the pulled sugar fingers.
That is without explanation, looking at that, I can tell
she's related to Freddy Krueger.
What'd you make for us to taste today?
Our nightmare ingredient was ketchup.
-Ooh. -So for you all today,
we have a toasted honey and ketchup marshmallow
with a sweet tomato jam and a yam chip
with a little tomato powder.
What's really interesting about these textures
is you have this kind of soft, gooey marshmallow,
which does kind of feel like we're biting into flesh.
And then the thin layer of tomato jam
almost gives it like a slight jerky flavor
because I do taste the savoriness of it.
I will tell you that I think that you tamed
that ketchup so much in that marshmallow
that I'm not necessarily getting it there,
but I get the echo of it in that tomato jam,
and I prefer it.
Scream of the Crop.
-Thank you, we gotta go warm up now. -[laughs]
-Thank you, judges. -Thanks so much.
[Teresa] Our pumpkin carver who looks vaguely familiar
was carving a serpent into his pumpkin,
and it came to life.
Right here we have, of course, Mike,
who carved all this out of pumpkin
and put his sea serpent.
It was going to be articulated,
but the pumpkin just bleeds liquid on the inside.
The mechanism got wet,
-and it's not working. -Oh. [laughs]
Gina, great job.
That pumpkin carver looks just like Mike.
-Dead on. [laughs] -Exactly.
I was waiting for you to do that.
-[Aarti] That's so good. -It's so awesome.
Mike, I love the sort of serpentine shape
of your serpent creature,
and I thought it was very smart
the way that you constructed it.
So the special effect portion was part of the challenge,
and I'm not really seeing anything.
What I like about what you've done here
with the finish of your work
is that everything in reality is quite clean.
The floor's clean, the wallpaper's clean,
and the pumpkin carver
who looks exactly like Mike is clean,
and then the dream part starts to get a little bit wacky.
Right, the colors are kinda crazy.
The painting of the serpent does well.
It doesn't look like anything that exists in reality.
What are we tasting today?
[Teresa] You're trying a brioche tart
with a photocopy on the top and pearl sugar,
and a vanilla diplomat cream,
and then little gooseberries that I deglazed with sake.
I do wish that you used the seaweed
somewhere else in the tasting,
because you've only added a sprinkle of it on top.
It's not even that much,
so I think the seaweed flavor is a bit lost on me,
but that aside, this is really delicious.
I love the texture of your brioche
and the cream that you put in the middle,
but yeah, there's just not enough seaweed in it, love.
Killer Instincts. Great job, thank you.
-Thank you. -Thank you.
Death by Deco.
Let's talk about your nightmare.
[Al] Emily is an artist, and she loves ravens.
They're creepy, they're spooky,
but tonight, as she is about to finish her painting,
she finds herself being swept into the wings of terror.
Matt, your pumpkin work is extraordinary.
The emotion that you manage to garner
through the way that you carve is really great.
We asked you to show up and show up you did,
so well done.
The other bright point for me is Emily.
I think that there's terror on her face.
I love that little detail,
her sort of scratching on the floorboards.
I really like the flapping of the wing.
I do wish you'd had it on both sides.
I think it feels a little odd.
This is a very terrifying scene here,
especially this looming dark raven in the background.
I think that is so well done.
So, what are we tasting today?
[Becky] You are tasting a shortbread cookie
topped with a sweetened mascarpone.
Bay fig and Castelvetrano olive
and rosemary olive oil.
Wow, that is definitely savory sweet.
The mascarpone tastes so cheesy, and I really like that.
I also love the compote that you got out of the olive.
I love that you paired fig with olive,
and I particularly love that you went
with the Castelvetrano olive.
It is my favorite, it is fruity, it is green,
but I think something as simple
as a little bit of flaky salt over the top
would have really nailed this.
Death by Deco, great job.
-Thank you. -Thank you.
[Jonathan B] Congratulations, teams.
You all gave us quite a fright,
but one of you delivered a nightmare
that was a Halloween Wars dream come true
for our judges.
The winner of this challenge is...
I'm getting the chills just thinking about it,
Scream of the Crop.
[laughing]
[all applaud]
Your Frida did Freddy Krueger proud,
but for two of you, this is about to feel like a bad dream.
Shriek Squad,
you took home the win in the first challenge,
but this piece feels worlds away.
While there are great moments for each of you,
the piece as a whole feels messy and lacks control.
Killer Instincts.
I love how Gina, you were able
to perfectly capture Mike in cake.
Unfortunately, you were asked to add a special effect
for some Hollywood magic to your nightmare,
and it was a bust.
You are all amazing artists,
but we have to send a team home tonight.
Shriek Squad, that fermented plum
tasting element saved you.
I'm sorry, Killer Instincts.
It's time to say goodbye.
-[Shannon] Goodbye, guys. -[Kristina] Bye, guys.
[Shannon] Well done, well done.
-[indistinct] -Bye.
Congratulations, you five live to frighten another day.
We'll see you next time.
On the next Halloween Wars...
There's gonna be a lot of engineering.
[Briea] Wow, Eric, really big.
[Jonathan B] The five remaining teams
imagine truly chilling costumes...
[Shellane] I think I found my new little niche.
-[Jamie] Yeah, whoo! -[Jonathan B] ...for when monsters...
-[all gasp] -[Jonathan B] ...go trick or treat.
[Briea] Come on, baby.
-[Al] And just rub it in with your hands. -Yeah.
Oh yeah, that's what I wanted.
[Blood Stain] In goes the neighborhood.