Popular monster character costume ideas for Cosplay and Halloween
Halloween is the perfect time to dress up as your favorite monster character! Here are some great costume ideas to get you started; For a classic look, try dressing up as Frankenstein's monster. Or for something more modern, try a werewolf or vampire costume. If you want to be really scary, go for a zombie costume! And for something different, try a mummy or ghoul costume. Whatever you choose, make sure your costume is fierce and will make everyone scream!
Pale Man Costume from Pan’s Labyrinth
Pale Man’s costume is nude leggings, a nude top, a few layers of nude fabric, a white mask, and fake eyeballs.
Siren Head Costume
Siren Head’s costume is black leggings and a black top. Use EVA foam, acrylic paint, and cone-shaped Styrofoam to create Siren Head’s body.
The Rake Costume
The Rake’s costume is a full white bodysuit, white shoes, long nails, and use acrylic paint to finish your look.
Raichu's Costume from Pokémon
Raichu's costume can be recreated with a DIY mask, an orange hoodie, and paw slippers.
Salad Fingers' Costume
The DIY Salad Fingers costume features three long foam fingers on each hand, a mask, a green sweater, and a pair of blue pants.
Blastoise's Costume from Pokémon
Blastoise's DIY costume can be recreated with a blue unitard, khaki shirt and shorts, a mask, and a shell backpack.
Sulley Costume from Monsters, Inc.
Sulley’s costume is a blue sweatshirt and blue joggers with purple circles on them, monster gloves, monster slippers, and silver horns.
Vecna (Stranger Things) Costume
Vecna's scary costume involves the iconic skin-less aesthetic monster mask and bodysuit or the flower-shaped monster head.
Mommy Long Legs Costume
Mommy Long Legs’s costume is a strapless hot pink mini tube dress, hot pink shoes, short hot pink gloves, light blue socks, a light blue choker and bracelets, and a light blue scrunchie tying her long hot pink hair.'
Huggy Wuggy Costume
Huggy Wuggy’s costume is a wooly blue onesie, a pair of yellow knit gloves, matching yellow sneakers, and a wide sharp-fanged mouth.'
Shrek & Princess Fiona Costume
Shrek and Princess Fiona’s costume is a tunic shirt, a brown vest, brown leggings, a brown rugged belt, and dark cloth shoes for Shrek, and a long green princess dress, a princess crown, and green flat shoes for Princess Fiona.
Bughuul/Mr.Boogie (Sinister) Costume
Bughuul or Mr. Boogie wears a white shirt under his long coat. He has his mouth shut together and has long hair, dark eyes, and monster hands.
PNK (Monsters University) Costume
PNK’s costume is a PNK sweatshirt, a pink layered tutu skirt, pink furry leg warmers, and pink sneakers.
Monstars Costume from Space Jam
The Monstars costume can be recreated with a muscle shirt and the Monstars basketball jersey.
Monster Princess Do-S Costume from One-Punch Man
Monster Princess Do-S wears a dominatrix-inspired outfit styled with mismatched gloves, boots, and a blonde wig.
Celia Mae (Monsters Inc.) Costume
Celia’s costume is snakes on her head, and a green short sleeveless dress with scale print design and a bluish green puffy collar.
Bowsette's (Super Mario) Costume
Bowsette's costume features a black top and skirt. She has blonde hair and a Bowsette crown, too.
CDA / Child Detection Agency's (Monsters Inc) Costume
The CDA's costume features a yellow hazmat suit. You can elevate the costume with a DIY box as headpiece featuring the buttons and tubes on the CDA's upper body design.
Fred (Big Hero 6) Costume
Fred’s costume is a blue hoodie onesie, different colored fleece fabric for various details, light blue claw slippers, black gloves, and a tail.
Luca Paguro Costume
Luca’s costume is a white plaid shirt, denim shorts, green-scaled rashguard and pants, and a Luca-inspired beanie or mask.
Mothman Costume
Mothman’s costume is a black bodysuit, long black wings, black feathers, long black antennae, and red sunglasses.
Zoe (Sesame Street) Costume
Zoe is a young monster who loves visiting the other monsters in Sesame Street. Zoe’s costume is a pink shirt, pink tutu, pink ballet flats, and beaded accessories.
Papyrus (Undertale) Costume
Papyrus has a skeleton body. He wears a white crop top, blue shorts, red boots, and red scarf.
Connie the Hormone Monstress (Big Mouth) Costume
For Hormone monstress' costume, wear a furry or textured top and pair of pants. Got a pair of gloves and hooves for the feet, too. Paint the skin brown and wear a headband with fawn ears.
Minotaur Costume
The Minotaur costume involves a faux fur jacket with shoulder gear paired with fuzzy pants or gladiator-style pants. Then get a bull head and arm guards to complete the look.
Mike Wazowski Costume
Monsters look different from each other. Mike is a spherical green monster with one, giant green eye. To look like Mike, you can wear a green shirt, green leggings, and a blue cap.
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.
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.
Sasquatch Costume
Sasquatch costume looks like a tall, muscular, ape-like creature that can easily reach up to nine feet in height. It is covered head to toe in dark fur and has extraordinarily large feet.
Bowser (Mario) Costume
Bowser costume includes a yellow full body suit. Style it with studded cuffs on the neck, shoulder, and arms. Then finish with a Bowser hat or a backpack for full effect.
Bigfoot Costume
Bigfoot's costume is composed of a furry or fuzzy top and pants in brown or black. Pair it with monster hand gloves and shoes.
The Creeper (Jeepers Creepers) Costume
“Creeper from Jeepers Creepers costume is red shirt, brown coat, cowboy hat, boots and a creepy mask. For props carry wings and ax.”
Undyne Costume
Undyne costume is a simple black tank top, grey pants, red boots, and her black eye patch. What makes her stand out, though, is her bright blue skin and winged ears.
Blair (Soul Eater) Costume
Blair's costume includes a halter top and skirt, thigh-high boots, elbow sleeves, and a witch's hat. She also has a round pendant on her neck and purple hair.
Asgore (Undertale) Costume
Asgore costume is a big purple cape wit a yellow shoulder top. He has blonde hair and beard, a horn, and a crown..
Teen Wolf Costume
Scott the Teen Wolf costume is a yellow T-shirt with number 42 on it, a blue and yellow varsity jacket with B letter, a pair of jeans, and white sneakers.
Inuyasha Costume
Inuyasha costume is a red kimono set with matching trouses. He also has a beaded necklace, a samurai sword, long white mane, and dog ears.
Vampire Queen Costume
The vampire queen costume a short and dark red satin dress, a sheer black dress, a black under burst corset, a black lace collar, a red jeweled necklace and earrings, black stockings, and black high heels.
Akasha (Queen of the Damned) Costume
Akasha, the queen of the damned costume is a breastplate, a long black skirt with a silver belt, a big neck piece, a crown, arm bands and gauntlets with fabric attached to them, and shoes.
Cookie Monster Costume
Cookie Monster is a blue, furry monster with googly, round eyes and can be seen with a cookie on hand more often than not.