The winner of Best Short Film and Best Concept at the 2006 Horror Film Festival in Chicago, The Life and Death of a Pumpkin is a darkly comedic look at the morbid practice of jack-o-lantern carving on All Hallows Eve told from the point of view of a pumpkin. Plucked from its pumpkin patch and family, an unnamed pumpkin undergoes torture and ultimately death at the hands of sadistic revelers and children. Directed by Aaron Yonda and produced by Blame Society Films, it manages to combine the shocking horror of pumpkincide with sporadic bits of deadpan humor. It is not to be missed.

Once I get my site revamped, I intend on making a videos section where all the wonderfully whacky and horrifying videos I find on the interblags will make their home.