Popular scary character costume ideas for Cosplay and Halloween
Area 51 Alien & Prisoner Costume
The alien in Area 51 takes great attention thanks to it's cool dual-entity part of an alien carrying a human. Another variation features an alien wearing a prison outfit.
King Kong & Ann Darrow Costume
King Kong’s costume is a grey sweater, grey pants, and a building headpiece while your kid wears a monkey suit. Ann Darrow’s costume is a white flowy dress, silver stilettos, and to make it look like Kong is holding Ann, a DIY giant ape’s hand.
Guard (Squid Game) Costume
The Guard's costume from Squid Game can be worn with an all-pink suit or wear a pink hoodie and matching pants. Style it with a black belt, gloves, and shoes. Complete the costume with a black mask that has a circle, square, or triangle shape.
Candyman Costume
Candyman’s costume is a long frock coat, a white neck scarf, grey pants, black Oxfords, and underneath you’ll need a DIY zombified body.
Tricky the Clown (Madness Combat) Costume
Tricky the Clown’s costume is a dark grey robe, blue boots, a blue neck warmer with grey pom-poms, and a crazy red wig.
Vanessa Ives (Penny Dreadful) Costume
Vanessa Ives’ costume includes an all-black ensembles featuring a long dress with lace sleeves. She styles it with a belt as well as a pair of dangling earrings.
Violet Harmon (American Horror Story) Costume
Violet Harmons’s costume consists of a yellow dress as well as a purple cardigan. She also has brown hair topped with a black hat.
Lich King (World of Warcraft) Costume
Lich King’s costume is silver armor from his pointy helmet all the way to his boots, a ragged black cloak, and gauntlets. He is also known for his long white hair and his daunting Frostmourne sword.
Junkrat (Overwatch) Costume
Junkrat’s costume is ripped camo pants, brown boots, a big ‘mine’ bag with canisters, a metal arm, and a metal leg.
Lord Zedd (Power Rangers) Costume
Lord Zedd’s costume is a red jumpsuit, a red helmet visor, silver finger claws with a full-body EVA-foam armor.
SCP-049's Plague Doctor Costume
SCP-049 plague doctor costume is a vintage plague mask and a hooded cloak, pair up with black shoes and gloves.
Mothman Costume
Mothman’s costume is a black bodysuit, long black wings, black feathers, long black antennae, and red sunglasses.
Night King (Game of Thrones) Costume
Night King’s costume is a black medieval top and black medieval pants underneath his armor, black boots, and black gauntlets. The Night King is also known for his bluish-grey skin.
Predator Costume
Predator’s costume is a full body suit, armor, and a helmet created to look as close to the character as possible.
Ellen Ripley & Alien Costume
Ellen Ripley & Alien’s costumes are the standard USCSS Nostromo uniform which consists of a green shirt, white button down, and grey coveralls with patches, and a black skeletal body (made from a bodysuit and EVA foam) and a large, oblong-shaped head with wide open jaws.
Spawn Costume
Spawn’s costume is a black bodysuit with white details, a red cape, a black and white mask, and chains.
Jerome Valeska (Gotham) Costume
Jerome’s costume is a suede vest underneath a red paisley dinner jacket paired with white pants, black boots, and black gloves. Even his sewed-in face is utterly unforgettable.
Hanson (Scary Movie) Costume
Keep up with Hanson's costume with a dark jacket and necktie. His signature look comes with a balding hairline and a small hands.
The Huntress (Dead by Daylight) Costume
The Huntress’ costume is a white puffed sweater, a red corset, a brown leather harness, denim capri pants, a blue sarong, and a white rabbit face mask.
Plague Doctor Costume
Most of the plague doctor costume is based on 17th century clothing of a normal person, such as a cloak, leather boots, and a tailcoat.
Melanie Daniels (The Birds) Costume
Melanie Daniels from The Birds’s costume is a light green blazer, a light green pencil skirt, light green heels, and attached to her are black crows.
The Fisherman Killer (I Know What You Did Last Summer) Costume
The Fisherman’s costume is a long black coat, black pants, black boots, a black leather fishing hat, black gloves, and an ice hook. The Fisherman guts and his victims with an ice hook.
Nazgul / Ringwraith (Lord of the Rings) Costume
A Nazgul’s costume is a long black hooded robe. Their arms are blackened, their faces (rarely seen) are deathly pale and sunken, and they are usually armed with a long sword.
The Trapper (Dead by Daylight) Costume
The Trapper’s costume is a dirty white tank top, overalls, boots, and a creepy white mask. The Trapper is a big, hulking man who loves trapping his victims.
Cady Heron (Mean Girls) Costume
Cady’s costume is her Wednesday pink outfit, red top and skirt outfit, and her over-the-top bride costume for Halloween. Cady Heron was sweet and thoughtful before she came a Plastic.
Error Sans (Undertale) Costume
Error Sans’ costume is a red shirt, black hoodie, black shorts, red tights, and a Sans mask. AUs shouldn’t exist according to Error Sans.
Sans (Undertale) Costume
Sans cosutme is a body of skeleton with a dimpled face skull and wears a white T-shirt topped with a blue hooded jacket, baggy black pants, and gray shoes
Papyrus (Undertale) Costume
Papyrus has a skeleton body. He wears a white crop top, blue shorts, red boots, and red scarf.
Underfell Sans (Undertale) Costume
Underfell Sans’ costume is a beige shirt, brown tunic, khaki shorts, brown tights, and a giant paintbrush.
Edwards Scissorhands & Kim Boggs Costume
Edward Scissorhand’s costume is a white dress shirt with a black ascot, black pants held up with black suspenders, and his iconic blade-like hands. Kim’s costume is an off-shoulder white dress and white heels.
Carrie White Costume
Time to go to prom all bloody. Carrie’s costume is a white satin dress, a prom tiara, and tons of splattered fake blood.
Adam & Barbara Maitland (Beetlejuice) Costume
Adam Maitland costume is a black and white plaid shirt with smart khaki pants. Barbara costume is her floral button-down dress.
Succubus Costume
Feeling frighteningly flirty? Then, a succubus outfit is perfect for you. You’ll need a black top, a black mini skirt, black heels, and a black pair of wings.
American Horror Story Cult Clowns Costume
Want to join the cult? Wear a creepy-looking clown mask and a costume that matches your persona like Pentagram Clown, Holes Clown, Puzzle Face Clown, and Little Girl Clown.
Rubber Man Costume
Rubber Man costume is being covered head to toe in black latex.
Xibalba (The Book of Life) Costume
Xibalba's costume includes a long sleeved top with vest paired with a long skirt. It is styled with neon details and a feathered shoulder to match the wings. Finish the look with black gloves and a black mask.
Eruptor (Skylanders) Costume
Eruptor is a lava-monster carved from molten lava and rock. He has cracks all over his body and oozes lava from his hands and feet.
Sugar Skulls Costume
For sugar skull costume, aside from drawing a skull on their face, women wear slightly gothic-themed dresses and beautiful floral headbands. Men, on the other hand, wear much simple clothing of black suits.
Hellboy Costume
Hellboy’s costume is two horn stumps on his head a red forked tail. He wears a black shirt, a beige trench coat, black cargo pants, and black boots.
Flying Monkey (Wizard of Oz) Costume
The Flying Monkey costume is composed of furry or fleece top with monster arms and fuzzy legs in grey. Top the fleece with a cut out of a blue shirt formed into a tight vest with red felt as decoration. Complete the costume with wings, a sailor hat, and a blue monkey mask.