ROTTEN TOMATOES: Halloween Costume Guide

Halloween Costume Guide

October 10, 2008

The only thing scarier than finding razor blades in your trick 'or treat bag or Freddie Krueger haunting your dreams is showing up at a Halloween party without a cool costume to wear. Lucky for you, we've put together a handy guide for that last-minute scramble; choose from 15 awesome costumes based on some of our favorite movie characters and earn the oohs and aahs of your fellow movie geeks this Halloween!

If you're like us, you always wait until the last minute to slap together a costume for that annual Halloween party only to wish you had more time, or more inspiration, to make a truly awesome outfit. Well, procrastinators, worry no more! We've compiled a handy guide to 15 movie-based costumes that are easy (and cheap!) to put together and will help you stand out from the crowd.

From Indiana Jones to Juno MacGuff, to John Rambo to Carrie, there's something for every movie lover to wear. Check out our Halloween Costume Guide (including costumes for women, pairs and groups) right here!

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ARTaylor writes:
on Oct 09 2008 10:05 PM

I'll be dressing as the same thing I have for the last five years. Blue coveralls and a white altered William Shatner mask. It's perfect. I have literally driven people to tears by doing nothing but stare at them.

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Hadji Murad writes:
on Oct 10 2008 01:23 AM

THAT IS IT!!! This year I'm going as Dr. Loomis.

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Matrixhasyou writes:
on Oct 10 2008 01:24 AM

Going Super Mario with the roommate

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The One Coz writes:
on Oct 10 2008 01:38 AM

The Halloween party Im going to needs a new class of criminal

and Im gonna give it to em hehehehehehehehe

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mola writes:
on Oct 10 2008 04:09 AM

juno?

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grimsreaperX writes:
on Oct 10 2008 04:51 AM

Anyone who dresses as the Joker will look like a fool because 1,000 other people are going to be dressed as him.

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Gimy writes:
on Oct 10 2008 06:35 AM

i'm going as sarah palin this year. gonna put on a wig, glasses...cover myself in blood while holding a polar bear's head and in the other hand...a rifle. woo hoo...

grims, you're exactly right but c'mon...you know thats the character of the year and every guy wants to act like a crazy 2ss anyway. at least for one day a year...we get to, and seem normal

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Samurai_Messiah writes:
on Oct 10 2008 08:16 AM

I've actually made my own batman costume based upon the Dark Knight.

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Bigbrother writes:
on Oct 10 2008 09:36 AM

I want to go as V from V for Vendetta, just in the hopes that someone will ask who I'm supposed to be and I can give the "V" heavy monologue from the movie. "Are you some kind of crazy person?"...priceless

Evey Hammond: Who are you?
V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask.
Evey Hammond: Well I can see that.
V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is.
Evey Hammond: Oh. Right.
V: But on this most auspicious of nights, permit me then, in lieu of the more commonplace sobriquet, to suggest the character of this dramatis persona.
V: Voil�! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin van-guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition.
[carves V into poster on wall]
V: The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.
[giggles]
V: Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.
Evey Hammond: Are you like a crazy person?
V: I am quite sure they will say so. But to whom, might I ask, am I speaking with?

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jokerboy1991 writes:
on Oct 10 2008 09:43 AM

Rorscach I may be!

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Suicide King writes:
on Oct 10 2008 11:28 AM

they're missing what's probably going to be the most popular halloween costume of the year. the joker. should be easy, and cheap enough to get done too.

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Suicide King writes:
on Oct 10 2008 11:29 AM

In reply to this comment (#2071460)
oops never mind the joker comment. i didn't see him at the left there.

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SionnachOghma writes:
on Oct 10 2008 02:53 PM

"What would you like for Hogswatch, small human?"

Santa suit, skull mask, sack, scythe. Happy Hallowe'en.

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joe1azael writes:
on Oct 10 2008 03:24 PM

there some pretty lame characters to use them as halloween customs, Juno? come on! It supossed 2 be scary or at least out of ordinary...
this year I will use the Ed Scissorhands custom... it�s a classic and instantly recognizable... and for some strange reason, appealing for the ladies...

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DerekExcelcisor writes:
on Oct 10 2008 05:11 PM

My costume is R.C. McMurphy from One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. All you need is a tobagon, a dark jacket, jeans, and a menacing smile.

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AliensAteMyParents writes:
on Oct 11 2008 11:49 PM

I'm going as Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver: green jacket, jeans, boots, mohawk wig, aviator sunglasses, some toy guns and blood all over my neck and clothes. I'm even getting a "We are the people" pin.

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Bdjohnst writes:
on Oct 12 2008 12:29 PM

Good list, buy RT forgot the best holloween costume of all. Frank the Bunny from Donnie Darko.

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Bdjohnst writes:
on Oct 12 2008 12:30 PM

Good list, buy RT forgot the best holloween costume of all. Frank the Bunny from Donnie Darko.

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vagrant_hippo writes:
on Oct 12 2008 08:35 PM

frank is a good idea. i think they should've used the brothers from Funny Games instead of the Grady twins from the Shining; it's just been overdone so much.

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zooman writes:
on Oct 13 2008 07:58 AM

is it only me or harvey in that picture is full faced, shouldn't he be already two faced?

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