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Sixty - Scary Halloween Costumes: Evil And Creepy Characters

By Lukas Logan


At some point scary Halloween costumes can start to look alike. Bloodied weapons of evil personas and creepy disguises of mad scientists start to blend together even with frightening makeup. To create a new and exciting scary character requires a large dose of creativity on your part.

The most difficult part of this costume is coming up with the concept you will use. If you have a basic idea of what you want it's easy to build on that than to start with nothing at all. Not all of us have the imagination required to create a truly frightening Halloween character.

There are no rules or common components when you are dreaming up a scary costume. You can be as creative as you want but it's hard to know where to begin and harder still to recognize when you've arrived. Keep it simple and start with a character you know.

Choose a season or a holiday - a favorite fairy tale or movie character. Watch a few horror films and note what the actors' do that sends chills up your back and take notes. Read a slasher novel or story about serial killers and take a few ideas from those.

Keep your mind open to possibilities as your go through your daily activities as creating this character effectively may take some time. When you have an idea for a costume or a theme, write it down before you forget it. Those notes might be very useful later on when you settle on a totally different concept for your scary Halloween costume. With your notes you may have the resources to finalize your character by adding a new dimension to the fright.

Both the internet and the local library are good research sources for you. Read about abandoned towns or disturbing and unexplained hauntings. Anything that frightens you or makes you feel shivery will probably have the same effect on others.

A visit to a costume shop to look at scary masks is another possibility. The artists creating those Halloween masks have done their own research and the high end expensive masks are often terrifying to imagine as a real person or monster. Just looking through the designs available for sale may help you decide what your scary Halloween costume will be.

Some of the same costumes meant to have the fright factor will be seen every Halloween. We have the standard vampire, the ghost, the evil witch, the slasher or chainsaw killer, and always there is our worst nightmare....Freddie. Whether supernatural terror or more realistic axe murdered or serial killer this might be research best conducted during daylight hours.

If you look you will find your scary Halloween costume idea. Real life and characters from fiction, dark spaces and legends by campfire - the list is long and varied. Combining real with haunting can be quite effective. There is perhaps nothing more frightening than taking a real and everyday person, warping them or twisting them just a bit and creating an unexpected monster. Choose from the variety of scars, gashes, burns and other creepy accessories available to add to your character's image. Edited by Svetchey Sanorols



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