Damaris Phillips teams up 14 of the world's top carvers and challenges them to pursue their dreams by bringing terrifying nightmares to life; impressing judges Terri Hardin and Deane Arnold will put the teams one step closer to the cash prize.
The all-star teams create a crime scene by carving a specific spooky crime location, a peccant perpetrator and a monstrous murder weapon.
Damaris Phillips invites the carvers into a mad scientist's lab, where they create two horrifying hybrid beasts that battle in a duel.
To move on to the all-star finale, the teams create supernatural-themed stories while contending with another jarring jump scare.
Eight elite pumpkin carvers begin their journey to become the next Outrageous Pumpkins Champion when host Damaris Phillips challenges them to create the best porch display in the neighborhood so they can show off their artistic point of view.
Damaris Phillips is all about everyone's favorite Halloween decoration, so she tasks the carvers with creating topsy-turvy, gravity-defying stacks of jacks; they must impress the judges with a spooky skeletal structure to stay safe from elimination.
Damaris Phillips ramps up the competition by asking the carvers to put their best foot forward with 3D pop culture pumpkins that highlight iconic fashion eras; the competitors bring common literary phrases with a deadly twist to life.
The final five pull out all the stops when Damaris Phillips challenges them to create their own superhero and superpower; the competitors depict a scene of the one and only DC's Batman facing off against one of his iconic enemies to save Gotham City.
Each of the six carvers sculpt a 3D zombie in their likeness, complete with accessories that reflect their personality; the first team challenge requires creating a giant haunted house using a minimum of 15 pumpkins.
Sunny challenges the carvers to reach new heights and build their biggest pumpkin creations yet, first bringing a frightening phobia to life and then depicting a circus sideshow gone terribly wrong.
The final four carvers battle it out to earn the title of "Outrageous Pumpkins Champion"; they create a larger-than-life children's toy with a creepy spin; then, the carvers go all out with a sinister depiction of a popular playground pastime.
Jack-o'-lanterns are the name of the game as Alyson Hannigan challenges the seven carvers to create a cursed nursery rhyme triptych and a spooky underwater display.
Host Alyson Hannigan challenges the six competitors to create intricately carved 3D facial expressions and foods; the sweetest carvers get to stay, but judges Marc Evan and Terri Hardin give one carver the sour news to go home.
In the finale, the remaining four carvers are challenged to create a doomsday hero and then incorporate that character into a 5-foot-tall scene depicting the end of the world and featuring world-famous Atlantic giant pumpkins.
Six pumpkin carvers tackle 3D sculpting challenges, starting with science experiments gone wrong in the Quick Carve round; things heat up in the Big Carve round when the competitors incorporate fire in 3D dioramas of trick-or-treating pumpkins.
Five expert pumpkin carvers face a spooky structures challenge; the carvers stack pumpkins to create undead animals in a pet cemetery-themed Quick Carve round before moving on to make enormous prehistoric creatures in the Big Carve round.
The final four pumpkin carvers create terrifying monsters-in-law and larger-than-life monster party scenes using Atlantic Giant pumpkins; the winning carver will take home the $25,000 prize and bragging rights.