Get excited, these are the best Halloween costumes to come across our site! These costumes were given special mention by our Editors. Due to this, you will be astounded by their creativity and realism.
Go inside the minds of the people who came up with these unbelievable costume designs. Some ideas are simple and others are extremely unique. Either way, this collection of the best Halloween costumes are all done supremely and realistically well. As a result, they manage to completely blow our minds.
In this section, learn how to effectively become your favorite movie character. See the best Halloween costumes for Marty McFly, Mary Poppins and Bert, Chewbacca and even a Beetlejuice family! If you’re a TV fan you will love Marge Simpson, Wun Wun the Giant. and some truly scary American Horror Story costumes. Additionally, we have Broadway play characters like awesome Elphabas.
In addition, we have food items, insects and larger animals. So you can dress up like slurpees, butterflies, and even a baby Octopus. The range and talent is truly remarkable.
Finally, we have optical illusions, famous expressions and even more.
You will find something great to make here. Whether you have a month or just an hour or a month to spend working on your costume. We can’t wait to see what you come up with! Please share it with us here…
After my 2019 Freddie Mercury / Freddy Kreuger mashup costume went viral, I started thinking about other potential combinations for a future split get-up. It felt like enough time had passed at this point to do the concept again, and since I never repeat the same thing twice I told myself that it had to … Read more
I can’t say my daughter, Emerson, “wanted” to be Sir Elton John because well she’s a baby. However, mom and auntie were at his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour and I looked over and said “how funny would that be?” and the rest is history. For the next month my thoughts and scarce spare time … Read more
Here’s the story behind our Sackboy caterpillar costume – My daughter wanted to be a caterpillar for Halloween and really liked the caterpillar costume worn by the video game character Sackboy in the game “Sackboy: A Big Adventure”. That particular Sackboy caterpillar costume has one of his iconic big zippers down the front and since … Read more
If you’ve ever worked with faux fur than you know it gets EVERYWHERE! Hahaha I feel like we’ve been eating faux fur for sometime now, since making of these costumes! They were both made with LOTS of faux fur. I recycled a few fur throws to use the fabrics from (buying fabric by the yard is … Read more
Introducing Kian as Optimus Prime, Riley as Starscream, and Anita as Bumblebee. Riley about the Halloween costumes: I have always loved getting dressed up for Halloween and theme parties, but my poor fine motor skills left some of the details of my costumes lacking. That all changed when I met my wife, Anita, in 2015. … Read more
The costume design was inspired from the Transformers character Unicron, his Prime Cartoon incarnation in particular. With the extensive details, my father and I had to take a layered approach. For a base to wear, I wanted something that could flow well with armor, while still effectively conveying the dark energy the character embodies. We … Read more
You’d better buckle up your seat belts because this saga actually began 3 years ago as a COVID project. I possess a 7ft Red-tailed Boa named Alala (Greek personification of the female war cry) that was an inspiration for this costume. I was in the garment district in downtown Los Angeles for the first time … Read more
We took a family trip to Paris at the end of September and spent a memorable day taking the train to Giverny and renting bicycles to visit Monet’s home and gardens. The property is visually stunning – a riot of color around every corner, flowers in bloom, artwork on every wall; it is easy to … Read more
I’ve always loved the illusion costumes, but I wanted to try something a little different than the Port-a-Potty costume or the Monster Carrying a Body in a Bucket; I decided to do a woman sawed-in-half illusion costume instead. I already had an XXXL Ringmaster costume for previous years, so I figured I could repurpose that. … Read more
I started this cardboard robot costume with my son’s wish to be a robot, with a H&M box, masking tape and his Robot drawings. I cut out front and back panels and using my 8 year old size as the guidelines for sizes and measurements. Then, I taped the insides with masking tape until I … Read more
Some of my favorite childhood memories consist of Halloween memories because my mom always created our costumes from scratch and she always did such an amazing job and I have loved creating those same memories for my own family now. I’ve lived out of my home state and away from my family since getting married, … Read more
Here’s the story behind our Sackboy caterpillar costume – My daughter wanted to be a caterpillar for Halloween and really liked the caterpillar costume worn by the video game character Sackboy in the game “Sackboy: A Big Adventure”. That particular Sackboy caterpillar costume has one of his iconic big zippers down the front and since … Read more