Halloween Costume Ideas!!
 

Yes yes, it's that time of year again, folks!

Here's your one-stop-shop for all those ideas you've got creepin' and crawlin' around in your brains... so share ideas for costumes right here!

NOTE: When, not if, someone posts a totally disgusting, perverse, nasty, incredibly offensive costume idea... this is not the place to take them to task on it. Just let it be. If you don't like it because you think it's just going too far, just pretend you didn't see it, ok? Some people thrive on the most disgusting costume idea they can find.

My ideas so far:

1. ninja pirate cyborg
2. zombie steve irwin (with impaled stingray barb)

I have heard of a priest costume that come with a small doll... That might be taking it too far, but the Steve Irwin costume that comes with a stingray is pretty sad too.

Me? I have not decided yet, I was considering a cardinal outfit (cleargy, not the bird) but it looked kinda cheap... Oooo, maybe i'll be a Jedi...

Well, I already put this in your journal but I'll repeat it here. Dress up in a Yankees uniform and walk around with a revoked pilots license.


/going to hell.

I've been wondering about what to do for a party and I'm seriously considering Zombie Steve Irwin

That's awesome idea! (from a creative standpoint)

Hmmm....how about:

1. Kim Jong Il complete with pacifier, baby bottle, lil' blanky, and squirt gun or styrofoam nukes?

2. Elmo - but you might be attacked by kids

3. The missing weapons of mass destruction (I like abstract costume ideas)

4. Osama Bin Laden, or generic terrorist costume

Go for Osama with a plastic tube filled with red colored water going into a small piece of luggage....

Personally I would go as a priest with a doll velcroed to the..... yeah :D

Theres always the homicidal maniac costume... they look just like normal people

Or Paris Hilton and look as trashy as possible...

I got a late invite to a H. party one year and threw together a quick costume.

Black pants, shirt, hat and dark glasses, wearing knee-high fishing boots =
"Norwegian Mafia"

Ok, ya gotta be a fish eater to get the humor. :)

Arthur Dent

All I need for a costume is to wear pj's, bathrobe and have a towel hanging over a shoulder.

Or live near Poulsbo.

I should get one of my friends from the dojo to do a cinematic quality staged fight in the middle of the street. While wearing costumes, of course.

I have some good ideas for costumes, but they're still ideas. I'll try and get one worked out so I can post it.

Me, I'm going as Dr. House. Easy as hell costume, all I need is:
-Pair of jeans
-teeshirt
-overshirt
-blazer
-cane
-bottle of Vicodin...
And there you go! Just quit shaving for a week before, and you're set!

I am just gonna go as Vader, I got the mask a while back and I just ordered his FX lightsaber off of Ebay.

Good costumes are expensive.....! But if money wasn't an option, I'd go with this:
http://www.kropserkel.com/Images/kropfullwk4.jpg
It even has a full set of armor underneath the robes. (all real metal)

dress in all white. wrap a piece of 1/2 copper tubing around yourself keeping it 3-6 inches away from your body. write IUD in small letters on the back.

I was planning to dress as Steve Zissou, but I don't think that I'll have time to get a proper costume ready.
http://i.imdb.com/Photos/Ss/0362270/007_LAC-3787.jpg

Pyramid Head from Silent Hill 2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Sh2_judgement.jpg

Cardboard helmet, fake blood on a canvas robe, great knife built around a fishing rod

edit: I just noticed that pic has a spear rather than the great knife. GIS it if you want to see.

Dress any way you like.
Include the nametag, "GOD".

or such.

Wrap yourself in tin foil and go as a leftover:eek:

I'm trying to put together a Carmen Sandiego outfit, but finding a trenchcoat that is either red to begin with or dyeable is hard.

If anyone has a long red coat like Carmen Sandiego in a size L-XL that I could borrow, I'll pay for shipping!

I'm going as Death/monk/dark jedi, they all pretty much look the same, depending what I carry (lightsaber, sythe, book).

The only one I have is purple :(

Interesting how age changes you.

When I was in my early 20's I think I would have found Zombie Steve Irwin to be funny.

In my mid 30's it seems tasteless and crude.

Dress up like Al Gore and light up a big cigar. Or dress up like John Kerry and wear flip flops. Or dress up as Clinton and attach an inter....hmmm that one is tasteless to, nm.

I was trying to work out a way of taking about 30 of those fake flame things and mounting them on a suit. I think I could do it, but it costs way too much.

Alice Cooper... my one and only costume choice!

the Kim Jong Il costume would be awesome!

You have a big purple coat? :confused:

Nice catch.

I would do Kim Jong Il except for the following two reasons:

1. I'm not asian.
2. I don't have the jowles like he does.

Which bears the following two problems:

1. If I tape my eyes back a little to the sides to simulate the appearance of his eyes as an asian person, I'm afraid it would piss someone off like I'm making fun by taping my eyes back, and taping the corners of my eyes back even a tiny amount makes my vision start to blur, and that would cause a massive headache really quickly.
2. I don't think I could simulate the jowles well enough for it to be worth it.

I'm 21 and I have to agree here. That's someone's dead son you're making fun of... :mad:

http://img282.imageshack.us/img282/7...ostume2mu5.jpg

Also, a few years ago I wore a Cubs hat & sweatshirt, my wife painted cub logo's on my face, guess what I went as?

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A Loser!

I want to go as Wayne Cambell this year, I got some jeans I can rip, I just need a wig and a cheap black hat and shirt. Then I'll get real drunk and everyone will be like "party on!" and that pretty much gaurentees a good time.

It's my mom's, but it's too big for her and I have used it on several occasions to accomplish various feats of jackassery.

I agree, good catch.

Irwin was a happy, energetic, fun guy and an entertainer- I think he'd find it hilarious.

And i'm not making fun of him. I'm not mocking him for dying the way he did. I'm not calling him names or saying anything mean about him. He died from a stingray barb to the heart, and that's that. How long does a person have to be dead before the imaginary "it's been long enough" barrier dissolves?

Also: everyone dead is someone's dead son or daughter.

I don't look on death as a morbid, depressing, terrible horrible thing. Partly because of my job, and partly because I just feel that death is death. There are a lot of people and many entire cultures that agree with me. Death is the opportunity to celebrate the life that is lost.

Also also: i'm not going trick-or-treating to his widow's house. I'm dressing up halfway around the globe and going to a party.

And that's IF i even do it. It was only an idea. There's no harm or disrespect intended to Irwin- and I still think he'd find it funny.

That's an excelent point. If I were killed in an odd way, I'd want people joking about it. Death is so final and depressing, why not make people happy?

I dressed up as Christopher Reeves a month after he died. Wheel chair, dress suit, superman shirt underneath unbuttoned dress shirt, tube to the throat and comb over and everything.

Some people were pissed, others loved it. I took second place in two costume contests. Yeah, it's tasteless, but I don't pride myself on having the fanciest wines.

I'm gonna tone it down this year, and dress up as a Care-Bear (good reason to get drunk, and molest people), or Snarf (good reason to get drunk, and molest people). Oh wait, any costume that changes my appearance is a good reason to get drunk and molest people.

since when is halloween not an expression of death and the morbid?

Analog, you don't have to be Asian or have the jowles to "dress up" like Kim. There's no need to tape back your eyes or anything, that's a bit extreme. I guess it depends on what you are going for: realism or satire/spoof. Hence the baby bottle, pacifier and styrofoam nukes. I think if you did the makeup, hair, and outfit pretty good, then people would get the idea.

Think, if you go as Steve Irwin, you're not gonna really look like him. It's the idenifying elements: khaki outfit, screaming "crikey" all the time and the sting ray barb is the perfect touch. (I'm assuming you are not Australian but you can still dress up as him). In the same vein, I met a chick who dressed up as Austin Powers at a Halloween part a few years ago. She was Asian, but it was obvious that she was Austin Powers (the blue velvet suit with the ruffles and the glasses and bad hair. She even had a a fake set of teeth and a bottle of "mojo".

I say go for it, and have a friend go as George Bush and you guys can chase each other around throwing little tantrums along the lines of "he started it, he started it!". It will be hilarious.

I had a friend dress up as the "winter of our discontent". Talk about abstract!!! I personally liked it.

jorgelito: I was thinking merely from a "realism" perspective- the spoof and satire would be in the act itself. the look would be normal.

Cool, you know I wonder, if they make a Kim mask?

I just looked, couldn't find anything. lol

Just passing this along...

Someone at work today mentioned going as the angel of Cory Lidle, the baseball player who died in the plane crash recently... complete with baseball uniform and glove, and wings... but bend the wings up a bunch. If someone can't tell they were wings, and they ask you what they are, you get all defensive about not flying well.

A couple of years ago, I wore a short sleeved dress shirt overtop of a Superman costume, let the cape hang out underneath, and went as a real incompetent Clark Kent.

Ok so this has been my standby cheap costume for a while now.
Get a whole bunck of those small assorted cereal boxes from the store, empty out the boxes, and pin all of the boxes on you. Carry a big spoon.....
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Can you guess what it is?
Cereal Killer!
(plus you get breakfast for a week or so)

I just finished painting my Pyramid Head mask and I have to paint the great knife tomorrow. I actually managed to build a 7 foot great knife (6 feet of blade) that I can hold out wtih my arm fully extended. I'm going to scare the hell out of some kids on halloween.

MSD: take a MILLION photos. A MILLION.

Well, looks like I'm going to have to revert to my original idea. I primed it with rust red primer, but it adhered unevenly to spots where spray glue leaked out from under the joint tape. i'm going to coat it with hammered texture paint then put another light coat of rust over that. Pictures will definitely be up by next weekend, since the campus party is Thursday.


The inside of the helmet sits directly on my head and I may put in some foam buffers to keep it from sliding, but the important part is that with the extra few inches it adds, I will be over 7 feet tall.

I'm going to go outside and splash some fake blood on my clothes now.

This year I'll be going as a ghostbuster... sure its been done before... and some people go all out with proton packs etc... MY proton pack however will be a brand new back pack herbicide sprayer, painted black on the outside and maybe some radio shack led's on the outside... the twist though, is that Im making a nice mix of everclear, sprite, limeade and lemonade to go in the tank. Then I can go around the party just filling up mine or anyone else's drink. I think it'll be a good way to meet people.

Can you just sqirt it in your mouth and others, it might be more fun that way?

John Goodman seems to fit me well
 

Walter Sobchak

http://www.catallarchy.net/blog/cgi-...%20Sobchak.jpg

I got a friend who might be going as Donny (Steve Buscemi) from the same movie. Need to find a The Dude, though. :/

If you can pull of Walter well, I definitely want to see pictures of that costume.

/wants to go to Lebowskifest

What in the hell costume is that? :confused:

It's from a movie I assume, must be one that I haven't seen.

What is the costume supposed to be?

I believe it's from Silent Hill: it's the pyramid head guy. He's one vicious mo'fo and didn't have nearly enough face time in the movie.

LOL that costume is AWESOME, msd.

Maybe you should get the outfit dirtier though? I don't remember him being so pristine

It's dirtier than it looks, it's just the aperture and automatic white balance of the webcam that make it looks so shiny. Since you mentioned it, I may roll around in some dirt for good measure before the party.

FYI: I took the style from the games, not the movie. While I liked the movie character and the implicaiton that Spoiler: Pyramid head is the demon's father, I don't think he got enough time on screen and I think the helmet looked cool, but too mechanical.

A funny side note: someone on another forum said that the great knife looks "dinky" when I drag it.

I'm probably going as Waldo this year (from where's waldo, the children's book); it's a pretty easy one and easy to spot out.

Other ideas I thrown around before doing that:
Fidel Castro (wearing an adidas jumpsuit)
franzia box wine
milhouse [simpsons]
etch-a-sketch [with dry erase boards on both sides of you]
Kim Jong-Il (pretty popular among the tfp'ers, i guess]
Pac-Man
Ali G/Borat


I remember, last day of high school, a kid dressed up as Link from Zelda for the hell of it. He was damn hilarious [went around pushing garbage cans :lol: ]

cya,
will.

oh yes... a dinky 7 foot knife. so dinky... you look like you're about to go make a pb&j sandwich. or possibly go on a killing spree. either one.

To make the robe look dirtier and more aged, maybe try pouring tea over it? I know you can make paper look like parchment that way, I can only imagine that it would have a similar effect on cloth.

But awesome looking costume man. I may have to copy you :D

Holy shit, you're still alive? Answer my damn IMs for once or give me a call sometime.

I would like to just post these outright since you did give a warning of sorts in the first post, but I'll just post links to some good ones I've seen lately:


NOT work place safe for some of you:

http://home.comcast.net/~nickjt/costume1.jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~nickjt/costume2.jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~nickjt/costume3.jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~nickjt/costume4.jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~nickjt/costume5.jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~nickjt/costume6.jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~nickjt/costume7.jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~nickjt/costume8.jpg

Black suit, with a black tie, and interchangable props. It's a ton of costumes in one!!!

Shades and pistol - Agent Smith (or any other Agent) from The Matrix

Shades and ray gun - Men in Black

Just shades and a black hat - a man in black or urban legend

an axe - Axe Gang member from Kung Fu Hustle

Exactly! I have the Black suit, red shirt, black tie and little horns that sit on my head, I made business cards up that say : Teh Debil. With my e-mail address and phone number for giving out to hot women. hehe. I might pick up a black fedora and see if I can pull that off.

Dress all in black, including the face... go as a Shadow Of My Former Self.

This year, if I have to it's the knee-high lace up boots I wear most winters, black tights, mini-skirt, wife-beater with black bra and the afro. Holes in tights, ballpoint pen dots on inside of elbows and black electrical tape on front tooth. I'm going as my neighbor.

I've also done a very tasteless construction worker complete with the wifebeater, hat, tool belt, plaid shirt, boots, and attitude.... did learn that toolbelts make awesome drink holders. And that angry construction workers in Orlando will yell at you. A lot.

One of my friends did the Corpse Bride by hand and looked fantastic. Wish I could post it, but she's under age.

Last year I did the black suit and tie thing, added a mask and a sword and went out with my kids as a Crazy 88...

Originally my man and I were going to be Bonnie & Clyde but I didn't want to be too cold in a Bonnie outfit, so I wussed out and found a cute Moll Gangster costume to go with his:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...gangsta_bw.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ngsta_crpd.jpg

Somone else had the same idea as you MSD

http://images.tmbo.org/mirror.php/of...%20costume.JPG

Wear a bloody doctors uniform and carry a coathanger. . . and be prepared to get a punch in the face as well.

Damn, why didn't I think of that? :)

Well, since we all seem to be posting Pyramid head pics, here's a link to some photos taken by a buddy of mine at the Anime Expo:

http://www.i360.com/events/ax2006/photos/36