Carbon Costume

With Disney’s copyright on the classic cartoon Steamboat Willie expiring, creators wasted no time taking advantage. On the very day the Mickey Mouse short entered the public domain – January 1, 2024 – a trailer for a horror slasher called Mickey’s Mouse Trap dropped, continuing the tradition of the previous year’s Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey. In the film, a killer masked as Mickey Mouse (Simon Phillips) stalks victims at a late-night birthday party in an amusement park. To take your costume from mascot to monster, cut out or black out the eye holes of your rubber Mickey mask.

In the 2023 slasher film Thanksgiving, after a Black Friday riot in Plymouth, Massachusetts ends in tragedy, the mysterious serial killer John Carver comes to town. His goal? To turn the townspeople into a Thanksgiving carving board, using creating instruments such as a meat tenderizer and turkey slicer. Make your own creepy pilgrim mask to put the finishing touch on this costume.

In Totally Killer, Jamie Hughes (Kiernan Shipka) is a rebellious teenage girl whose mother was murdered by a serial killer 35 years ago. As she’s chased by the same killer, she ends up hiding in her best friend’s science fair project, which happens to be a working time machine. She’s transported back to the year 1987. This is when Jamie realizes she has the opportunity to team up with the 16-year-old version of her mother to unmask the killer and change the course of history.

Amber Freeman (Mikey Madison) is an antagonist in the fifth Scream film, Scream (2022).  The film takes place 25 years after the original Ghostface murders committed by Billy Loomis and Stu Macher. Now there’s a new generation of teenagers for a new Ghostface to target. Amber is a friend of the protagonist, Samantha Carpenter, but spoiler – she’s revealed as the Ghostface killer, along with her accomplice, Richie. Since Billy Loomis is Samantha’s father, the two antagonists plan to also target the legacy characters. Though in the end, with the help of former characters Sidney Prescott and Gale Weathers, Samantha takes Amber and Richie down.

Pearl is the main character from the A24 film by Ti West, and is played by Mia Goth. Pearl is the origin story of the previous film in West’s series, X.

Pearl is a character that is stuck living and working on her family’s farm in rural Texas. She longs for a glamorous life on the screen, like she sees in the movies and goes killer lengths to attempt to achieve this. Pearl’s usual attire consists of blue overalls, a blue shirt, and lace bows or a blue bandana. When she goes to audition for a film, she wears an all-red dress with puffy sleeves and a large blue denim bow.

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David (played by Pete Davidson) is the host of a hurricane party in the A24 horror comedy Bodies Bodies Bodies.  David brings together some of his closest friends, including Sophie and Alice, and their significant others to weather the storm.  He’s combative from the start, especially with his girlfriend Emma and Alice’s boy toy Alex.  Once the group begins to play a murder mystery game, the night quickly turns deadly.  David’s death kicks off the whodunnit plot, so don’t be afraid to get creative with a little scar wax and plenty of fake blood to recreate his bloody slit throat demise.

Wayne (played by Martin Henderson) is the producer behind The Farmer’s Daughters, the porn flick at the heart of Ti West’s Texas-based horror movie X.  Wayne is a standard southern cowboy, with long curly hair, a twang, and a white cowboy hat.  He is the older boyfriend of Maxine, who he left his previous wife for.  Wayne wears a pretty generic outfit with dark jeans and a white hat, but his costume also includes a gold watch, which speaks to his larger aspirations.  During the film, he also shows that he wears a pair of extremely revealing skivvies under his jeans, so if you’re going for authenticity, you may want to invest in a set of men’s white bikini underwear.