This year fans of The Walking Dead, and those who appreciate a good zombie tale no matter the franchise, will be wanting to celebrate the spookiest holiday of them all in undead style.

So here's ten tutorials to help you have a Walking Dead themed night of fun this Halloween!

1. Zombie Makeup Tutorial-

Greg Nicotero is one of the industry's leading special effects artists, and with his guidance The Walking Dead makeup crew keeps their undead cast looking extra rotten and gross.

If you're joining the rotting masses this Halloween check out this zombie makeup tutorial by Greg Nicotero, where you'll learn the old tissue and liquid latex trick to make realistic looking rotten flesh.

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2. Corpse Rising From The Grave Costume-

Now that you have the makeup covered you need an actual costume, and this stylish yet oh so easy to make corpse rising from the dead costume by Heather Green of Paint Pal is sure to lift some spirits this Halloween!

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3. Daryl's Ear Necklace Cookies-

What's a costume and makeup without a horrifying prop?

Now you can make an accessory that looks disgusting but is actually delicious thanks to this tutorial by Mike from Semi Sweet that teaches you how to make the sugar cookie version of Daryl's Ear Necklace. Mmmmm....disturbing!

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The elections in Ukraine are contentious enough between the pro-Russian and anti-Russian factions, but now they’ve gone and arrested Chewbacca! The Wookiee was accompanying mayoral candidate Darth Vader to a polling place. 

The Star Wars character Chewbacca has been dragged before a court in Odessa, in perhaps the most surreal episode in local elections across Ukraine that have been both hotly contested and rife with dirty tricks. The man inside the costume was fined 170 hryvnia (£5) for the “administrative offence” of not being able to produce identification documents.

A statement posted on the official Instagram account of the Ukrainian police read: “Nothing unusual here, just Chewbacca detained for being without documents while driving Darth Vader to the elections in Odessa. The Sith Lord has already claimed this was illegal as Chewbacca is his pet and general servant and thus does not require documents.”

Police had earlier dragged “Chewbacca” from a polling station and put him in a van after accusing him of disrupting proceedings. The person in the costume said he had been there to support Darth Vader, who was attempting to vote.

Chewbacca appeared in court in Odessa today and will be fined $7.50 for being a hilarious person via @HromadskeTV pic.twitter.com/oqaFIbPZFA

— Christian Borys (@ItsBorys) October 26, 2015

Other sources report that the offense was campaigning on election day. This Darth Vader is one of several people who have campaigned under the name while running for office under Ukraine’s Internet Party in the past few years. Some races have included Padme Amidala, Yoda, and Chewbacca. The party is also responsible for the new Darth Vader statue in Odessa.  

The Captain really likes his tea. Sometimes that causes problems on the Enterprise. This video is actually called "Tea with Jean-Luc, episode 1: Ménage à Tea," which tells us there will be more to come concerning Picard’s relationship with tea.

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Andrew Hussie and Jan Van dem Hemel made about three dozen amusing vignettes out of old Star Trek: TNG footage in 2009. Six years later, they are reviving the series. You can see the entire collection at YouTube. -via Gamma Squad 

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For every person who believes aliens actually exist there are ten thousand skeptics ready to tell the believer they're dead wrong because of things like atmospheric conditions, FTL technology and the Bible.

But extraterrestrials don't care whether we believe in them or not, and when they eventually appear on Earth things are bound to take a turn towards the totally far out, man.

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While you're waiting for the xenomorphs to invade you should read some alien themed web comics, so your brain will stay nice and squishy for our alien overlords.

Read many more awesome alien themed web comics here

Thanks to pop culture weapons are the first thing on everyone's mind when they think about survival during the end times, and that goes double for a zombie-related apocalyptic scenario.

But even though a biblical armageddon will never happen, and corpses will never rise from their graves to devour the living, people are preparing for an unknown future by making sure they're well armed.

If you're wondering what the weapons of that dark future might look like you should check out this gallery of Homemade Weapons with the tagline- when you can't buy a gun you can build one.

The only thing this gallery is missing is a link to info about each weapon, because some of those guns look too ridiculous to actually fire bullets!

See 37 Homemade Weapons here

Aside from repeating tropes, themes and plots, filmmakers also like to recycle background characters to ensure the human clutter behind the stars in every scene looks comfortably familiar to viewers.

This recycling and reuse of filler characters means your favorite background friends will be in every movie, like the steadfast shopper or the trucker who keeps on truckin' no matter what's happening on top of his truck.

Dorkly's JHALL brought six background characters into the spotlight with his illustrations, and once you've seen them all in cartoon form you'll be seeing them in every movie you watch!

See The 6 Underappreciated Characters In The Background Of Every Movie at Dorkly

Canadian filmmakers are often overshadowed by their American counterparts because Hollywood is the hub of the entertainment industry, and the press doesn't give our cousins to the north their dues.

But Canadian creators have been changing the face of the industry for decades, sharing their unique view of the world through visual media, and their visions are often far more interesting than the played out ideas presented by mainstream Hollywood movies.

The Canadian contribution to the horror genre is no less interesting or important, because Canada gave us David Cronenberg, genre influencing films like Cube and Ginger Snaps, and classics like Black Christmas and My Bloody Valentine.

When you're looking for a fright flick to watch this Halloween you should consider going Canadian, and if you like your horror dark and disturbing yet cerebral you can't go wrong with a Cronenberg!

See The Top 25 Canadian Horror Films here

As a general rule you should refrain from using the term "master race" unless you're discussing things like racism, Nazi ideology or eugenics.

But if you're trying to make a big impression, good or bad, using the term "master race" will definitely get you noticed!

In this instance the term is used by comedy troupe The Warp Zone to highlight the fact that the battle between console and PC gaming is getting downright ridiculous, because it's all good!

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Gamers- can't we all just get along?

-Via Laughing Squid

The best part of the official trailer for The Force Awakens is the part where Han Solo assures Finn and Rey that the stories they’ve heard are true. What must he be thinking when he says that?

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Nick Skywalk remixed the trailer with clips from other films to make “those stories about what happened” real, to Solo and to us, which just makes looking forward to the new movie more exciting. This is really well done.  -via Uproxx

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For decades, a statue of Soviet dictator Vladimir Lenin stood in Odessa, Ukraine. But now it has been replaced with the image of Darth Vader, a Ukrainian politician. It was made of gypsum, which had been decaying for a while.

Lord Vader replaced the head and added decorative flourishes to the original, as well as a titanium cover to strengthen the structure. It's invulnerable, except for an insignificantly small exhaust port. The head is a WiFi hotspot, which Lord Vader hopes will attract visitors to his statue and his cause.

-via Klaas Meijer

David Cronenberg took the frightening scientific theories presented in the original version of The Fly and ran off into a dark corner with them, adding horrifying special effects to a tale that was already especially horrible to imagine.

The 1986 version of The Fly isn't like other reboots because it actually improves on the original film, and the disturbing special effects by Chris Walas, who won an Oscar for his work on the film, are still horrifying to behold nearly thirty years later.

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Speaking of horrifying, Geena Davis was so horrified while filming the scene where Seth's ear falls off that her look isn't acting, because she was genuinely disgusted by the effect. Now that's Oscar worthy!

Read 15 Fun Facts About David Cronenberg's The Fly at GeekTyrant

If you're looking for a true-to-life human life simulator then The Sims isn't your cup of digital tea, but if you embrace the inherent strangeness found when The Sims are left to their own devices then real life may pale in comparison.

Sims strangeness is generally whimsical and kept T for Teen, but as you'd expect from a video game that simulates real life things can get mighty dark, like killing a Sim by drowning him then make other Sims wear swimwear to his funeral dark.

People who were willing to confess to their Sims related crimes shared some of their darkest moments playing The Sims during an Ask Reddit session, and their answers were funny, horrifying and horrifyingly funny! (Contains NSFW language)

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Well before George Lucas "fixed" mistakes in his movies by adding cheesy CGI characters and effects then eliminating the original cut he and the original Star Wars trilogy crew simply left them all in.

These mistakes became geeky easter eggs for fans to discover and discuss online, but most of these nerfherded scenes were originally left in the films because it would have cost too much to re-shoot the scenes.

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Screen Rant is back with another entertaining compilation of cinematic calamities, this time focusing on the original Star Wars trilogy to reveal mistakes we might have missed. Who knew Jedis had to plug in their lightsabers?!

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The folks at How It Should Have Ended looked at the film Back to the Future Part II and decided it needed a new beginning instead of a new ending.  

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Their thinking is explained at the YouTube page:

In the film, Back to the Future, the first time Doc tests the time machine is by sending his dog Einstein 1 minute into the future. Doc puts his dog in the car, drives it down the parking lot, and zap the car bursts into awesome flaming tire trails. Marty immediately thinks Doc killed his dog, because both the car and dog disappear. For a whole minute Einstein was missing until the DeLorean finally comes back from the past. This is why "Back to the Future 2" sending Marty into the future to see his own future children is impossible. When you travel into the future your timeline is you going into the future. A copy of you is not left behind to live on to 2015, so you can't go forward to see what your future self would be like. You would jump ahead to a world that lost you in 1985. People would think you had died. But that's not as fun of a story to tell is it.

There’s one problem with that. Einstein is a dog. He didn’t have the time or the knowledge, let alone the dexterity, to program the Delorean to go back to the past. Marty and Doc know how to program the time machine, so they can go where they want to in time. But the video is still funny. -via Viral Viral Videos

The creatures of the night are crawling out of their dank graves and dark tombs to get us all in the Halloween mood, but you're safe (for now) because these aren't the real monsters we fear.

No, these are simply amazing sculptures by Mike Hill that look so realistic they make our skin crawl!

These incredibly lifelike sculptures celebrate the early years of monster movies, as well as paying homage to moments that changed the horror game, like Rick Baker's groundbreaking special effects work on An American Werewolf In London.

Mike Hill's sculptures really speak for themselves, but many of Mike's works deal with macabre subject matter so maybe "scream for themselves" is a more appropriate description!

See more of Mike Hill's amazingly realistic sculptures at Dangerous Minds