So you think you’re being sooooo clever by going to your Halloween party dressed as Treebeard with a cardboard trunk or the White Witch with a crown made of actual ice.
Trust me, you’re not.
By contrast, here are some fantasy-themed Halloween costumes you should definitely consider:
- Andy Sirkis in his “green-screen” Gollum suit.
- Shrek’s Lord Farquaad — but doing it on your knees has been done. Consider cutting your legs 0ff.
- Baby Gandalf.
- When it comes to Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s Willow Rosenberg, everyone rushes straight for Vamp Willow or Angry-at-Tara’s-Death-Evil Willow. We say shake it up and go for boring, first season Plaid Willow.
- David Naughton or Russell Tovey, post-werewolf transformation. (Basically, this means going to the party naked.)
- Galadriel’s depressive, low self-esteemed sister, Sadriel.
- Not Blacula, but Latino-la.
- Harry Potter in his “invisibility cloak.” Yes, this means you don’t really have to go to the Halloween party at all.
Tim Burton. N’uff said.
- A Senior Citizen of the Corn.
- Leia in the metal bikini has been done, so if you’re looking for sexy, why not consider the woman with three boobs in Jabba’s palace?
- A ghost using a bedsheet with two holes cut of it. (Hey, it’s ironic!)
- Lembas.
- Raquel Welch wrapped up in antibodies in Fantastic Voyage.
- Sam or Dean Winchester. (Hey, if you look like Jensen Ackles or Jared Padalecki, you don’t need a costume!)
- Baby Dumbledore.
- A gelatinous cube.
- Selene from Underworld after she’s run out of baby powder (chafing galore!).
Sigourney Weaver in her underwear in Alien. But this is actually a difficult look to pull off. It requires buying panties eight sizes too small — and then drying them in really high heat until they shrink four more sizes.
- Upon further reflection, we’ve decided that going to a Halloween party as the White Witch with a crown made of actual ice is pretty cool after all. But may we suggest to bring a spare crown — and be prepared to get wet?
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>Harry Potter in his “invisibility cloak.”<
I am SO telling people that when they ask me what I’m going as. My standard answer for this week (this year, anyway) is - “a writer who must stay home to finish her novel because I’m under deadline, ktxbi”
Thanks for the laughs, Brent! As always, you’ve made my morning.
RAQUEL welch, brent.
thanks!
I know a girl who is going to a Halloween party dressed as a Hunter from Supernatural (she can’t quite pull off Sam or Dean, of course!).
And if it’s going to be cold where you live during Halloween (as it’s supposed to be here), a girl could always go as Leia-in-Hoth-gear. No one ever does that!
Love the Hoth Leia idea!
As for a Hunter, that seems…vague. The best costumes that aren’t immediately evident should have the moment where the viewer clues in and goes, “Oh! Yeah!”
This year I went as an NPC from a typical JRPG. I wore my medieval peasant garb and made a couple of signs. One said “I heard there’s a witch that lives in the Forbidden Forest around the bend!” and the other said “….” Every time someone talked to me I held up one of those two over my head, repeatedly.