Popular scary character costume ideas for Cosplay and Halloween

Bad to the Bone Costume

This Bad to the Bone costume looks smashingly skeletal! You’ll be wearing a black leotard, black thigh-high socks, and sky-high black heels.

Billy the Puppet (Saw) Costume

Since Billy is actually a puppet, his face is in the same style of a puppet, but with scary features like red eyes and crazy black hair.

Samara Morgan (The Ring) Costume

Samara Morgan’s costume is simple yet seeing her in it will give you the chills (and probably nightmares as well). Her long white nightgown portrays a look of innocence while her long black hair covering her face provides a spine-chilling vibe.

Micheal Myers Costume

Michael Myers costume is wearing blue coveralls with an intimidating white mask covering his entire face.

The A Nightmare on Elm Street's Freddy Kreuger Costume

Freddy Kreuger’s costume is a plain red and brown striped long-sleeved sweater, black pants, and a hat. What’s more uncommon is his deadly glove.

Chucky (Child’s Play) Costume

Chucky costume looks like a Good Guys doll when newly resurrected but over the years, he has gained many imperfections. He wears a multicolor striped sweater, blue overalls, and red sneakers.

Tiffany Valentine/Bride of Chucky (Child’s Play) Costume

Tiffany (Bride of Chucky)’s costume is blonde hair and wedding dress look chic while adding an edgy black leather jacket.

Immortan Joe Costume

Immortan Joe costume is a skull-shaped breathing mask, a see-through plastic upper body and arms armor decorated with countless rank medals, white bandage gauntlets, a big black belt with holsters, white pants and white cape, and black boots.

Ash Williams Costume

Ash Williams costume is rugged denim shirt, hardy black work boots, whirling bloody chainsaw, and encompasses the part of a zombie killing machine.

The Satan Costume

For Satan costume, let’s assume that he’s like the regal king of the fallen complete with his beautiful red pitchfork and satin clothes.

Ghostbuster's Slimer Costume

Slimer is made up of 100% Ectoplasm and that’s why he’s the neon bright green color that he is.

Doctor Doom Costume

Doctor Doom's costume is a riveted metal mask, a green hooded cloak and a green tunic over steel armor. For Avengers: Doomsday, go dark: black pauldrons, a quilted green vest, bracers and a hooded mask.

Carnage Costume

Carnage costume has red colored skin with black and white muscles on them. He also has a monster-looking eyes and mouth, like Venom.

Green Goblin Costume

Green Goblin’s classic costume is still the outfit that many die-hard fans would associate with him. Think green and purple and kaboom! You have the Green Goblin.

Oogie Boogie Costume

The Oogie Boogie costume itself is just a few burlap bags sewn together, and with the addition of a mask, it is easy to make on your own.

Zombie Nurse (Silent Hill) Costume

The Silent Hill Nurse costume is a yellowing, bloodied nurse dress, a nurse’s cap, yellowing white heels, and bloody bandages wrapped around her head.

The Crow Costume

Due to his profession as a rock musician, Eric came back as the Crow in a black leather outfit. He wears a long sleeved leather shirt, leather pants, and a leather long coat.

Mortal Kombat's Goro Costume

Goro is a four-arm Shokan warrior and he prefers to be bare-chested so that his arms can freely move and wears tight, black shorts underneath a red loincloth with the yin and yang symbol in the middle. His hair is styled in a long ponytail.

Mortal Kombat's Baraka Costume

Baraka has a very distinct look that will keep anyone up at night. He has a frighteningly big mouth with multiple fangs. He wears a white tank top lined with red and a pair of black pants. On both his arms, he sports on curving twin blades.

Darth Sidious (Emperor Palpatine) Costume

Cosplaying Darth Sidious would be pretty straightforward. This character is famous of his aged pale face. When it comes to clothes, a long loose cloak is the main piece.

Frank the Bunny Costume (Donnie Darko)

The costume of the Frank the Bunny is as expected, a rabbit costume, but the face and mask part of the costume is quite possibly the most gruesome and weird thing you’ve ever seen.

Donnie Darko Skeleton Costume

Donnie Darko costume is a skeleton full body suit with a gray hoodie over the top. This costume is very simple and fits his moody-don’t care-troubled teenager attitude.

Abed’s Alien Costume (Community)

Abed’s Alien costume was something to talk about because it looked creative and a lot of fun, yet it was confusing for some fans wouldn’t know it was an Alien costume if Troy didn’t show up in the Exo-suit.