Halloween is still largely considered to be an American holiday, but more and more countries are joining in on the spooky sweet fun each year, and it seems like Halloween may one day be a holiday that the entire world celebrates together!

France

Photo:  Fracassi Family

Don’t you know that you don’t get a treat if you’re not wearing a costume? In France it’s no costume no problem, and even though they’re relatively new to the holiday, people are happy to give out treats to any trick-or-treaters who show up at their door.

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Costumed kids and parents take to the streets of Paris, France in search of sweets. It has become a yearly tradition for families to go trick-or-treating around Paris on Halloween night, due in large part to the 1997 advertising push by American companies and France’s own Telecom to make Halloween an official holiday.

England

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The Antrobus Soul-Cakers are a British mummers troupe (folk actors) who perform a souling play (a play about death and revival) each year at Halloween for the eager holiday crowds in Cheshire. This picture was taken in 1976, but the tradition is just as popular today as it was back then.

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Fang-tastic Halloween decorations were strung across a busy street in Blackpool, England back in 1998, earning it the nickname Halloween Highway.

Japan

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Parents and kids take to the streets of the Harajuku District in one of many parades that take place in honor of Halloween. You gotta love a parade, especially one full of people in crazy costumes!

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Explore the science behind the possibility of a zombie apocalypse with this crudely drawn short by AsapSCIENCE.

They'll school you on the facts, and not the media hype created by coverage of whacked out bath salt addicts chewing on people's faces.

A zombie apocalypse has never seemed so...plausible? *scratches head*

--via Geekosystem

One of the perks of staying home and handing out candy on Halloween is that you get to scare the pants off of trick-or-treaters, provided you don't mind a bit of retaliation.

With this doorbell you can terrify and delight those who dare press the button looking for a candy handout, and this mp3 powered prank is so easy to put together it's scary!

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The tagline for this Halloween themed short film says it all: "Nothing good can come from cookies baked in anger..."

Stay happy when you're baking up those goodies folks, or you just might create a jealous cookie with a bad attitude.

(NSFW due to language)

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We've all seen vampires, zombies and ghosts so much that they're not scary anymore, but do you know what's truly scary? Texting and Driving!

Or how about a Sedentary Lifestyle, something we bloggers are all too familiar with... *shiver*

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To a pumpkin, the worst part of carving is having to scoop out the brains! I wonder if human heads last any longer than pumpkins once they've been scraped clean and lit up from the inside with a candle?

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To say that Axe Cop is one of the best comics ever is an understatement, because Axe Cop is THE BEST EVER!! 

Now we've got a cartoon featuring Axe Cop to watch, and as a teaser Fox has given us a sample of the madness that awaits us when this axe wielding cop dresses up for Halloween and hits the streets. 

Bonus Points- Nick Offerman aka Ron Swanson is the voice of AXE COP! Squee!

--via Topless Robot

Apparently the grandfather of grunge isn't dead, he's just been plotting a way to defeat Batman!

Kurt CoBANE has moved out of Seattle and in to Gotham City, and his voice change is an unfortunate side effect of all the drugs fed to him by his insane wife Courtney Love. Maybe that's why he's so angry at ol' Batsy...

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If two Trekkers ever decided to tie the knot in full costume on Halloween then they'd most certainly need this cake to be in attendance!

Combining the forces of geekdom with the holiday made for cosplayers, the Black Cherry cake company have really outdone themselves with this colorful work of edible art. And is that a cute little kitty hanging out on the side?

Link  --via Geeks Are Sexy

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Okay, so this isn't a costume per se, more like a puppet or rig controlled by a guy wearing all black to conceal his identity, but it's still pretty darn cool.

And if they ever had a Star Wars parade they would definitely invite this guy to come marching down the street with them, and all would be right in the universe...

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Talk about stepping up your pumpkin carving game! Pumpktris was created by Nathan Pryor, a guy who was clearly tired of just looking at jack-o-lanterns and wanted a little interactivity with his Halloween decor.

This fully playable pumpkin has a LED light gameboard and uses the stem as a controller, and Nathan has been kind enough to include a step-by-step tutorial of the entire process in case you want to make one for yourself.

Good luck getting those kids off your porch!

Link  --via Reddit

Going through the ABCs didn't used to be so terrifying, but then illustrator Mike Boon slapped a horror movie icon's face on each letter and now spelling is the stuff of nightmares.

Actually, there's something cute about a furry W shaped Wolfman, and Freddy Krueger doesn't seem so bad when he's shaped like the letter K.

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The creator of this awesome Power Loader costume, like the one Ripley pilots in the scifi classic Aliens, clearly needed a way to get themselves and their baby to safety no matter what sort of heavy objects stood in their way.

If babies figure out how to pilot Power Loaders what's next? Truck driving babies? Baby fighter jet pilots fighting cute little wars over teething biscuits? Beware the baby uprising!

Link  --via io9

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The Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers aren't big fans of Halloween, and not because everyday is Halloween to them because they're always wearing a costume because that's too easy.

The real reason they don't like Halloween is the guy they're battling in this video- the Pumpkin Rapper. How do you battle a villain with the power of hip hop on his side? With a terrible rhyme scheme, that's how! 

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A bunch of kooky seniors from the Greenspring retirement community in Springfield, Virginia got together and put on a show to one of those moldies but goodies called The Monster Mash, you know, the graveyard smash.

My guess is this video will catch on in a flash, and every senior from San Diego to Queens will be doing their own version of that bone rattling Halloween classic!

--via Tastefully Offensive