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Rule 1: no costume is impossible. With a little imagination any costume can come to life.

Movie Characters
Movie characters are probably the easiest and most popular costumes. They usually don’t take much more than a makeup kit from your favorite party store and some old clothes you already have in the house.

Michaels Myers from the Halloween Movies: This is very easy for even the most Halloween challenged individual. You need a white mask or makeup, black eyeliner, and a big knife. (A fake one please.) Dress in all black, paint your face totally white, line your eyes thickly in black, and carry your fake knife around.

Freddy Kruger from Nightmare on Elm St. was a very popular costume. You need an old hat, a red and black striped sweater and black pants. You can find the glove he wore at costume stores and fake skin. (You can usually find a mask if you prefer) Spread the fake skin on your face, add red and pink makeup to make it look like burns. A little patience or money to buy the mask, and you’ll look good.

Another very easy costume is Jason from the Friday the 13th movies. You need dark baggy clothes and an old style goalie hockey mask.

Vampire
You can buy fangs at novelty stores that cap your own teeth. They are much better than those cheep mouth pieces we wore as children. You need some white makeup, black clothes, blood red lips and some fake blood. Don’t forget lots of black eyeliner. You can get creative with your clothing. Just because Dracula had a cape doesn’t mean every vampire wears one. You can be hideous or sexy-scary depending on what you want. Try to go above and beyond what most people do for a vamp costume. Teeth marks dripping blood, open wounds oozing, etc. etc. etc.

You can find great costume looks from your favorite movies. Such as Bram Stoker’s Dracula and any of the Anne Rice (Interview with a Vampire, Queen of the Damned etc.)

Ghouls, goblins, demons etc. are all in your imagination. What do you fear? Use your own nightmares to invent freakish creatures of the dark. You costume staples should include: fake blood, scary teeth, wounds, white face makeup, black eyeliner, black nail polish, black or red lips, bruises, sallow cheeks, dark hair, dark clothes, torn clothes, spiky jewelry, colored contacts etc.