Are you trying to think of some original Halloween fancy dress ideas? You’re thinking it’s all been done before, what can I dress up as instead of a witch, a devil, a vampire or a zombie? Well the good news is there are loads of great ideas out there and just as many fabulous costumes available to buy.
You can go for a generic Halloween costume or if you want to be more specific you can start by thinking of scary movies to give you some ideas, such as Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Scream, Hellraiser, Saw, Beetle Juice, a Nightmare Before Christmas, Jason vs Freddie or any horror movies.
Some generic adult Halloween costumes include lots of variations on the classic witch costume, including sexy witches, colorful witches and elegant witches. Other generic Halloween costumes for women include a fallen angel costume, a dark fairy, a ghostly spirit, a Voodoo priestess, a Zombie bride, a femme fatale or a gothic maiden costume.
If you start thinking about movie characters you could be Bellatrix Lestrange from Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince (played by Helena Bonham Carter) or any other female Death Eater, Hogwarts student or professor in Harry Potter. Other ideas include Morticia or Wednesday from the Addams Family, Malice in Wonderland (a dark Alice in Wonderland), a dark Queen of Hearts, Mrs Lovett from Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd (played by Helena Bonham Carter), or the wicked witch from The Wizard Of Oz.
Some generic men’s’ Halloween costumes include an evil Jester, a bloody surgeon, a Dalek, a werewolf costume, the Grim Reaper, a mad monk, a killer clown, a mummy or a Victorian vampire costume.
Some adult Halloween costumes for men based on film characters include a Harry Potter Death Eater, a Sweeney Todd costume based on the movie of the same name starring Johnny Depp, a Dr Jekyll ad Mr Hyde costume, an Edward Scissorhands costume (again based on a character played by Johnny Depp in the movie!), Frankenstein, The Joker from Batman (played by Jack Nicholson in the original Batman movie or Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight), a Hannibal Lector costume, or even a Predator costume or a Donnie Darko Rabbit costume.
The ideas are absolutely endless once you start thinking about some of the dark characters in the many, many scary movies that have been made.
Of course the most popular recent movie providing lots of inspiration for Halloween fancy dress costumes is Twilight. Vampires will be enjoying a new surge in popularity this year, but with a modern twist on the classic vampire costumes. Who could resist an Edward Cullen (AKA Rob Pattinson) look-alike? For the female fans out there that want to get into the Twilight vibe you could dress as the stunning vampire Victoria, played by Rachelle Lefevre, clumsy Bella Swan, played by the infamous Kristen Stewart (this would be an easy and original Halloween costume), or any of the other female vampires in the Cullen family coven.
So whether you decide to take a classic Halloween costume as your idea and give it a twist to make it original, or whether you go for something completely new and unique you are bound to have fun on Halloween.