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A SubTrope of HumanResources and a version of DecapitationPresentation. Not to be confused with ThroatLight and ''definitely'' should not be confused with PumpkinPerson or StingyJack, as the two former tropes are about people with pumpkins/jack-o-lanterns for heads, while this trope describes unfortunate people getting their heads turned into jack-o-lanterns via crude mutilation. This is a DeathTrope, so expect unmarked spoilers.
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A SubTrope of HumanResources and a version of DecapitationPresentation. Not to be confused with ThroatLight and ''definitely'' should not be confused with PumpkinPerson or StingyJack, as the two former tropes are about people with pumpkins/jack-o-lanterns for heads, while this trope describes unfortunate people getting their heads turned into jack-o-lanterns via crude mutilation. This mutilation.
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* The Atmos FX digital decoration for ''Film/TrickRTreat'' had Sam decapitating a young boy not only for not wearing a costume, but also for smashing jack-o-lanterns and stealing more than one piece of candy from a candy bowl.
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* The Atmos FX digital decoration for ''Film/TrickRTreat'' had Sam decapitating a [[WouldHurtAChild young boy boy]] not [[DisproportionateRetribution only for not wearing a costume, costume]], [[FelonyMisdemeanor but also for smashing jack-o-lanterns jack-o-lanterns]] and [[MurderArsonAndJaywalking stealing more than one piece of candy from a candy bowl.]]
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* ''Film/{{Dredd}}'' Judge Dredd does a much more improvised version of this trope when dealing with a hostage taker, firing a flare straight into the bad guy's mouth and cooking his skull from the inside-out. And we get to [[{{Gorn}} see it all.]]
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* ''Film/{{Dredd}}'' ''Film/{{Dredd}}'': Judge Dredd does a much more improvised version of this trope when dealing with a hostage taker, firing a flare straight into the bad guy's mouth and cooking his skull from the inside-out. And we get to [[{{Gorn}} see it all.]]
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* ''Film/{{Dredd}}'' Judge Dredd does a much more improvised version of this trope when dealing with a hostage taker, firing a flare straight into the bad guy's mouth and cooking his skull from the inside-out. And we get to [[{{Gorn}} see it all.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In the "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E4TreehouseOfHorrorIX Treehouse of Horror IX]]" episode segment, "The Terror of Tiny Toon", the ''JustForFun/TheItchyAndScratchyShow'' episode that Bart and Lisa [[TrappedInTVLand accidentally warp themselves into with a plutonium-powered remote]] depicts Scratchy trick-or-treating at Itchy's house in a skeleton costume. Itchy beheads Scratchy, then takes out his brain and puts a candle in its place, making Scratchy's head look like a jack-o-lantern. Bart and Lisa find this funny, but Scratchy doesn't. After Scratchy puts his head back on his body and his brain back in his head, [[EnemyMine he and Itchy team up to kill Bart and Lisa]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In the "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E4TreehouseOfHorrorIX Treehouse of Horror IX]]" episode segment, "The Terror of Tiny Toon", the ''JustForFun/TheItchyAndScratchyShow'' episode that Bart and Lisa [[TrappedInTVLand accidentally warp themselves into with a plutonium-powered remote]] depicts Scratchy trick-or-treating at Itchy's house in a skeleton costume. Itchy beheads Scratchy, then takes out his brain and puts a candle in its place, making Scratchy's head look like a jack-o-lantern. Bart and Lisa find this funny, but Scratchy doesn't. After Scratchy puts his head back on his body and his brain back in his head, [[EnemyMine he and Itchy team up to kill Bart and Lisa]].
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* ''Film/BadApples'': When Ella comes to at the end of the movie, she discovers that [[TeensAreMonsters the girls]] have killed her husband, carved a jack-o-lantern face into his torso, and hollowed it out to stick a candle in it.
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A SubTrope of HumanResources and an UpToEleven version of DecapitationPresentation. Not to be confused with ThroatLight and ''definitely'' should not be confused with PumpkinPerson or StingyJack, as the two former tropes are about people with pumpkins/jack-o-lanterns for heads, while this trope describes unfortunate people getting their heads turned into jack-o-lanterns via crude mutilation. This is a DeathTrope, so expect unmarked spoilers.
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A SubTrope of HumanResources and an UpToEleven a version of DecapitationPresentation. Not to be confused with ThroatLight and ''definitely'' should not be confused with PumpkinPerson or StingyJack, as the two former tropes are about people with pumpkins/jack-o-lanterns for heads, while this trope describes unfortunate people getting their heads turned into jack-o-lanterns via crude mutilation. This is a DeathTrope, so expect unmarked spoilers.
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As you can see, only really messed up psychos with iron stomachs will do this.
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this. [[Recap/HTFOutOfSightOutOfMime Or, on rare occasions, the carver could be blind and not know what they're carving.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In the "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E4TreehouseOfHorrorIX Treehouse of Horror IX]]" episode segment, "The Terror of Tiny Toon", the ''WesternAnimation/TheItchyAndScratchyShow'' episode that Bart and Lisa [[TrappedInTVLand accidentally warp themselves into with a plutonium-powered remote]] depicts Scratchy trick-or-treating at Itchy's house in a skeleton costume. Itchy beheads Scratchy, then takes out his brain and puts a candle in its place, making Scratchy's head look like a jack-o-lantern. Bart and Lisa find this funny, but Scratchy doesn't. After Scratchy puts his head back on his body and his brain back in his head, [[EnemyMine he and Itchy team up to kill Bart and Lisa]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In the "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E4TreehouseOfHorrorIX Treehouse of Horror IX]]" episode segment, "The Terror of Tiny Toon", the ''WesternAnimation/TheItchyAndScratchyShow'' ''JustForFun/TheItchyAndScratchyShow'' episode that Bart and Lisa [[TrappedInTVLand accidentally warp themselves into with a plutonium-powered remote]] depicts Scratchy trick-or-treating at Itchy's house in a skeleton costume. Itchy beheads Scratchy, then takes out his brain and puts a candle in its place, making Scratchy's head look like a jack-o-lantern. Bart and Lisa find this funny, but Scratchy doesn't. After Scratchy puts his head back on his body and his brain back in his head, [[EnemyMine he and Itchy team up to kill Bart and Lisa]].
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* ''Film/Carved2018'': At the end, some trick-or-treaters come up to the house, and see [[spoiler:the family's daughter's severed head on the porch, with a jack-o-lantern face carved into her own]].
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* ''Film/TalesOfHalloween'': In "Friday of 31st", the SerialKiller has mounted the head of one of his victims inside a jack-o'-lantern.
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* ''Series/{{Happy}}'': Nick kills [[TheDragon Smoothie]] this way in the Season 2 finale after being brought BackFromTheDead and tracking him down in a suburban neighbourhood, putting his smiling head alongside a pile of actual jack-o-lanterns. The psychotic smile he already had on made it unnecessary for Nick to do anymore [[FacialHorror carving]] to his head.
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* This fate happens to Mime in a Halloween short from ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends''. While trick-o-treating with friends, his group gets frighten by rats and runs away; said group includes [[LethalKlutz Lumpy]], who's dressed as the Grim Reaper and accidentally decapitates Mime with his [[NotSoFakePropWeapon very real]] [[SinisterScythe scythe]] while running away. [[BlindMistake The Mole]] then picks up his head, mistaking it for a pumpkin, and carves it into a lantern.
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* ''Series/{{Happy}}'': Nick kills Smoothie this way in the Season 2 finale after being brought Back From The Dead and tracking him down in a suburban neighbourhood, putting his smiling head alongside a pile of actual jack-o-lanterns. The psychotic smile he had on made it unnecessary for Nick to do anymore [[FacialHorror carving]] to his head.
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[[caption-width-right:350:They were running out of pumpkins this year so I had to improvise, all right?]]
Jack-o-lanterns are an iconic symbol for Halloween, just as decorated pine trees are symbols for Christmas. However, in more horror-centric works, there is a way of turning this common decoration into something horrific: having the lantern be made from somebody's head.
So, how does one usually do this? Well, it's simple! First, kill somebody and [[OffWithHisHead cut their head off]]. Then, make a hole or remove part of the skull in order to scoop out the brains. Next, feel free to carve up the head, maybe cut out the eyes, nose, or other bits of the face in order to make it look more Halloween-y. Finally, put a candle or some sort of light to make it a true lantern.
As you can see, only really messed up psychos with iron stomachs will do this.
A SubTrope of HumanResources and an UpToEleven version of DecapitationPresentation. Not to be confused with ThroatLight and ''definitely'' should not be confused with PumpkinPerson or StingyJack, as the two former tropes are about people with pumpkins/jack-o-lanterns for heads, while this trope describes unfortunate people getting their heads turned into jack-o-lanterns via crude mutilation. This is a DeathTrope, so expect unmarked spoilers.
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* ''Comicbook/HalloweenNightdance'' reveals that Michael Myers had done this to the wife of the deuteragonist, Ryan, who found her body pinned to the wall of Michael's hideout, with her head hollowed out in order to have space for a candle, her eyes gone, and a GlasgowGrin inflicted on her face.
* Creator/ECComics' ''Shock [=SuspenStories=]'' issue #2 has the story "Halloween!" A woman comes to work at a [[OrphanageOfFear miserable, underfunded orphanage]]. She tries to make things as nice for the kids as she can, and when they want a jack-o-lantern for Halloween, she goes to the office of the head of the orphange... and finds out he's been embezzling funds for years. When she threatens to expose him, he threatens her life-- and the kids rally to save her. [[https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/8582372.html And get their jack-o-lantern.]]
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* In ''Film/Halloween2018'', Michael Myers murders two police officers, decapitates one of them, then hollows out and mutilates the man's head to look like a jack-o-lantern, complete with light emitting from a flashlight shoved into the head. Then he places the jack-o-lantern in the other officer's lap, and drives the patrol car containing the remains of the cops to the front of Laurie's house, which lures [[spoiler: Ray]] into Michael's clutches.
* ''Film/{{Terrifier}}''. Art the Clown does this to a pizza shop owner after the latter kicks him out of his shop for covering the bathroom in his own shit.
* ''Film/TrickRTreat'' has Principal Wilkins and his son Billy carve a jack-o-lantern from the severed head of Charlie, who was killed by the former with poisoned chocolate.
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* In the Halloween episode of ''Series/{{Psychoville}}'', [[TheMentallyIll Joy Aston]] does this to her husband George after he slips on a toy car and cracks his head on the floor, killing himself. She puts the rest of his body in the recycling bins because he got mad when she made a mess of the house.
* ''Series/{{Happy}}'': Nick kills Smoothie this way in the Season 2 finale after being brought Back From The Dead and tracking him down in a suburban neighbourhood, putting his smiling head alongside a pile of actual jack-o-lanterns. The psychotic smile he had on made it unnecessary for Nick to do anymore [[FacialHorror carving]] to his head.
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* Even when he's not scary as Wrestling/TheUndertaker, Wrestling/BrayWyatt makes a great work as "[[RedBaron The New Face of Fear]]". After being various years absent, he came back in 2019 as the [[DepravedKidsShowHost FireFly Fun House]] presenter with a dark side, the monster called [[JekyllAndHyde The Fiend]]. When Wyatt appears in events as The Fiend, he uses a Jack-O-Lantern with [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EB9zzgUW4AEsDZX.jpg the head of his past persona]].
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* This fate happens to Mime in a Halloween short from ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends''. While trick-o-treating with friends, his group gets frighten by rats and runs away; said group includes [[LethalKlutz Lumpy]], who's dressed as the Grim Reaper and accidentally decapitates Mime with his [[NotSoFakePropWeapon very real]] [[SinisterScythe scythe]] while running away. [[BlindMistake The Mole]] then picks up his head, mistaking it for a pumpkin, and carves it into a lantern.
* ''WebAnimation/MokeysShow'': Momi's head is turned into a lantern by [[TheyLookLikeEveryoneElse A Normal Person]] at the end of the episode "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiJF6cn2bPA An Abnormal Halloween]]". As part as a JumpScare, [[spoiler: Momi's head screams at the very last seconds of the video]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In the "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E4TreehouseOfHorrorIX Treehouse of Horror IX]]" episode segment, "The Terror of Tiny Toon", the ''WesternAnimation/TheItchyAndScratchyShow'' episode that Bart and Lisa [[TrappedInTVLand accidentally warp themselves into with a plutonium-powered remote]] depicts Scratchy trick-or-treating at Itchy's house in a skeleton costume. Itchy beheads Scratchy, then takes out his brain and puts a candle in its place, making Scratchy's head look like a jack-o-lantern. Bart and Lisa find this funny, but Scratchy doesn't. After Scratchy puts his head back on his body and his brain back in his head, [[EnemyMine he and Itchy team up to kill Bart and Lisa]].
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[[caption-width-right:350:They were running out of pumpkins this year so I had to improvise, all right?]]
Jack-o-lanterns are an iconic symbol for Halloween, just as decorated pine trees are symbols for Christmas. However, in more horror-centric works, there is a way of turning this common decoration into something horrific: having the lantern be made from somebody's head.
So, how does one usually do this? Well, it's simple! First, kill somebody and [[OffWithHisHead cut their head off]]. Then, make a hole or remove part of the skull in order to scoop out the brains. Next, feel free to carve up the head, maybe cut out the eyes, nose, or other bits of the face in order to make it look more Halloween-y. Finally, put a candle or some sort of light to make it a true lantern.
As you can see, only really messed up psychos with iron stomachs will do this.
A SubTrope of HumanResources and an UpToEleven version of DecapitationPresentation. Not to be confused with ThroatLight and ''definitely'' should not be confused with PumpkinPerson or StingyJack, as the two former tropes are about people with pumpkins/jack-o-lanterns for heads, while this trope describes unfortunate people getting their heads turned into jack-o-lanterns via crude mutilation. This is a DeathTrope, so expect unmarked spoilers.
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[[folder: Comic Books]]
* ''Comicbook/HalloweenNightdance'' reveals that Michael Myers had done this to the wife of the deuteragonist, Ryan, who found her body pinned to the wall of Michael's hideout, with her head hollowed out in order to have space for a candle, her eyes gone, and a GlasgowGrin inflicted on her face.
* Creator/ECComics' ''Shock [=SuspenStories=]'' issue #2 has the story "Halloween!" A woman comes to work at a [[OrphanageOfFear miserable, underfunded orphanage]]. She tries to make things as nice for the kids as she can, and when they want a jack-o-lantern for Halloween, she goes to the office of the head of the orphange... and finds out he's been embezzling funds for years. When she threatens to expose him, he threatens her life-- and the kids rally to save her. [[https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/8582372.html And get their jack-o-lantern.]]
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* In ''Film/Halloween2018'', Michael Myers murders two police officers, decapitates one of them, then hollows out and mutilates the man's head to look like a jack-o-lantern, complete with light emitting from a flashlight shoved into the head. Then he places the jack-o-lantern in the other officer's lap, and drives the patrol car containing the remains of the cops to the front of Laurie's house, which lures [[spoiler: Ray]] into Michael's clutches.
* ''Film/{{Terrifier}}''. Art the Clown does this to a pizza shop owner after the latter kicks him out of his shop for covering the bathroom in his own shit.
* ''Film/TrickRTreat'' has Principal Wilkins and his son Billy carve a jack-o-lantern from the severed head of Charlie, who was killed by the former with poisoned chocolate.
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* In the Halloween episode of ''Series/{{Psychoville}}'', [[TheMentallyIll Joy Aston]] does this to her husband George after he slips on a toy car and cracks his head on the floor, killing himself. She puts the rest of his body in the recycling bins because he got mad when she made a mess of the house.
* ''Series/{{Happy}}'': Nick kills Smoothie this way in the Season 2 finale after being brought Back From The Dead and tracking him down in a suburban neighbourhood, putting his smiling head alongside a pile of actual jack-o-lanterns. The psychotic smile he had on made it unnecessary for Nick to do anymore [[FacialHorror carving]] to his head.
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[[folder: Professional Wrestling]]
* Even when he's not scary as Wrestling/TheUndertaker, Wrestling/BrayWyatt makes a great work as "[[RedBaron The New Face of Fear]]". After being various years absent, he came back in 2019 as the [[DepravedKidsShowHost FireFly Fun House]] presenter with a dark side, the monster called [[JekyllAndHyde The Fiend]]. When Wyatt appears in events as The Fiend, he uses a Jack-O-Lantern with [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EB9zzgUW4AEsDZX.jpg the head of his past persona]].
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* This fate happens to Mime in a Halloween short from ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends''. While trick-o-treating with friends, his group gets frighten by rats and runs away; said group includes [[LethalKlutz Lumpy]], who's dressed as the Grim Reaper and accidentally decapitates Mime with his [[NotSoFakePropWeapon very real]] [[SinisterScythe scythe]] while running away. [[BlindMistake The Mole]] then picks up his head, mistaking it for a pumpkin, and carves it into a lantern.
* ''WebAnimation/MokeysShow'': Momi's head is turned into a lantern by [[TheyLookLikeEveryoneElse A Normal Person]] at the end of the episode "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiJF6cn2bPA An Abnormal Halloween]]". As part as a JumpScare, [[spoiler: Momi's head screams at the very last seconds of the video]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In the "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E4TreehouseOfHorrorIX Treehouse of Horror IX]]" episode segment, "The Terror of Tiny Toon", the ''WesternAnimation/TheItchyAndScratchyShow'' episode that Bart and Lisa [[TrappedInTVLand accidentally warp themselves into with a plutonium-powered remote]] depicts Scratchy trick-or-treating at Itchy's house in a skeleton costume. Itchy beheads Scratchy, then takes out his brain and puts a candle in its place, making Scratchy's head look like a jack-o-lantern. Bart and Lisa find this funny, but Scratchy doesn't. After Scratchy puts his head back on his body and his brain back in his head, [[EnemyMine he and Itchy team up to kill Bart and Lisa]].
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