Carbon Costume horror comedy
Vladislav from What We Do in the Shadows
Vladislav a main character in What We Do in the Shadows, a horror mockumentary about the lives of four vampires. Known as Vladislav the Poker, he was once a tyrant with incredible powers. Vladislav can turn into a cat, but he never gets the face right. He enjoys chaos and taking selfies. Jemaine Clement plays this role, and wrote and directed the movie alongside Takia Waititi, who plays Viago. This is his outfit from the party fight scene, when the other vampires try to eat their human friend, Stu. To make the jacket pop, use silver puff paint to draw the design along the sides.
Randy Meeks from Scream 2
Randy Meeks is a main character in the first two Scream movies. He’s a horror movie fanatic, which makes him paranoid about the identity of Ghostface. Despite surviving the Woodsboro murders, he gets murdered during the Windsor College Murders. While trying to help Gale and Dewey, Ghostface pulls him into a van, slits his throat, and stabs him four times. In Scream 3, his sister, Martha, delivers a tape he made before his death. Randy warns the survivors of what to expect, foreshadowing a third killing spree.
Joel Jones from Scream 2
Joel Jones is a main character in Scream 2. He becomes Gale Weathers’ new cameraman after Kenny’s murder. His sensibility and intuition allows him to realize something is wrong in Woodsboro. Because of this, he remains alive at the end of the film (although he was supposed to be a victim in the original script). You can make his Woodsboro news ID with a piece of paper and insert it into the badge cover. The plastic camera is included as a prop, but you can use an old or broken video camera if you have one.
Billy Peltzer from Gremlins
Billy Peltzer (Zach Galligan) is the protagonist of Joe Dante’s Christmas horror classic Gremlins. He is a young man who is given a creature called a Mogwai for Christmas. He names it Gizmo, but discovers there are various strange rules to care for it. When he breaks them, he accidentally unleashes a wave on monsters called Gremlins on his small town.
Happy Death Day Killer
Happy Death Day is a 2017 horror film released by Blumhouse and is about a college student who must relive the day of her murder over and over again, in a loop that will end only when she discovers her killer’s identity. The killer featured marks a distinct baby face, their real identity a mystery.
They Live Alien
They Live is an action horror film from John Carpenter in which a drifer finds out a large percentage of the American population who hold power are actually aliens, and that all written text really say subliminal messages such as “OBEY” or “STAY ASLEEP”. Best done in groups. Recommended you make an “OBEY” picket sign.
The Re-Animator
Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs), also known as the Re-Animator, is the villain of the cult classic 80s comedy-horror film “Re-Animator”, its sequels, and its 2011 stage musical, all based on HP Lovecraft’s short story “Herbert West–Reanimator”. He also was the subject in the Dynamite Comics series “Re-Animator” and even crossed paths with Ash Williams from Evil Dead in the Army of Darkness Vs Re-Animator comic series (An fun idea for a pair cosplay). Chemistry tubes/head optional. Bring “life” to any party in this gross out costume!
Ghostface from Scream
In the Scream series, Sidney Prescott is the target of Ghostface, a masked murderer who torments her by killing the people around her. The Scream series revived the horror genre in the 90’s by incorporating humor and by its acknowledgment of horror movie cliches.
