30+ Hilarious Halloween Costumes We Should Have Thought of Ourselves

The Shining’s terror twins costume is a favorite for many and not without a reason. The costume is easily recognizable, low in terms of maintenance, and fits perfectly with the Halloween bill. This is inarguably one of the best renditions of the costume that we will ever get to see.

These two friends decided to dress up as The Shining twins, complete with the wigs, the dresses, and even the knee-high socks and sandals! These are two souls we would not wish to cross paths with during the night!

Sleepy Hollow is a great story to take the cue from while searching for costume inspirations. The Headless Horseman is a popular choice as it is truly spooky. Though it’s difficult to fashion a costume that is supposed to make the wearer appear headless, a nice photo can’t be missed to commemorate the occasion!

This photo has been processed using some slick technical tools (Photoshop has been used on the head portion). Nevertheless, the production quality of the costume and background is good enough to warrant a place on this list.

What should we do when our house is swarming with furry pets, and we want to include them in our costume? Easy, transform into a tree and have them climbing all over!

This extremely creative costume by this gentleman may not be spooky, but it is funny and a downright genius move! Even the cats seem to be having a ball scampering in and out of the many holes in the tree.

Movies, TV shows, and books come into the spotlight a lot during this spooky pumpkin season. This has people rushing to pick up the popular costumes from their favorite franchises. But, sometimes, the best costumes are the rarest ones!

This couple decided to pay homage to one of history’s most popular artworks, Van Gogh’s Starry Night! Everything about this recreation is perfect, from the iconic swirls on the lady’s dress to the painted red beard on the man.

In real life, we may not be able to ever visit the Dunder Mifflin’s Scranton office, but it’s easy to recreate some of our favorite characters that love selling paper there.

Thanks to Dwight, we all know that identity theft is no joke! But, this gentleman’s costume of Dwight Schrute is spot-on for once, making it into a truly amazing joke! It is a Dwight party and the password is Bears, Beets, Battlestar Galactica!

Donning the costume of a villain on Halloween definitely raises the stakes. After all, one turns into a boogeyman on the night made for such other-worldly beings!

This person’s rendition of one of Ghostbusters’ villains, Vinz Clortho, is worthy of applause! The attention to detail is absolutely brilliant. From the facial expression to the open, untucked shirt, this Louis Tully impression looks ready to make a team of ghostbusters cry!

Spider-Man is, without a doubt, one of the top five costumes chosen every year on Halloween. Our friendly neighborhood hero has been ruling the costume stores for decades, for people of all ages!

Each year, Marvel brings out innumerable sophisticated spidery costumes, and their production quality only gets better. Just take a look at this amazing costume — seems like it was taken from the sets of the Avengers movie itself!

This is another villain that takes to the streets on Halloween, and it’s a costume that is certain to turn heads at every party! This is what this Archibald Snatcher costume promises to do!

By itself, this costume is scary enough, thanks to the expression on The Boxtrolls’ villain’s face. However, this particular copy is even more ghastly in the best possible way! Ruthless and arrogant, this costume is all that and more.

The main villains, or the underrated comedic elements of Home Alone, are the wet bandits. Harry and Marv have committed enough robberies to have earned that nickname, but it turns out that all their experience was not enough to beat out little Kevin McCallister!

All their attempts at robbing the house are foiled by Kevin with his antics and pranks! This duo has even got the iron masks and feathers right.

The God of Mischief is all the rage currently, thanks to Marvel’s popular TV show Loki. Tom Hiddleston brought to life all the horrible and amazing things about Loki in the show, and it was only made better by his many variants.

Robert Irwin, son of crocodile hunter Steve Irwin, decided to dress up like Loki for Halloween! His variant companion? An alligator, just like in the show! The Internet went into a frenzy over this photo, and we did too!

Skeleton costumes are like the potatoes of Halloween costumes — basic, ubiquitous, and one of the most common ones out there in the market! However, they can turn out to be just a mashed potato, or something as sophisticated as a potato au gratin!

This skeleton costume is definitely not child’s play and is a standout in the sea of skeletons roaming the streets on Halloween! A 10/10 score at any costume competition for sure.

This is probably the most popular science enthusiast turned kind-of-bad person on TV. Without a doubt, Breaking Bad is still a beloved show with a massive following.

Walter White is an iconic pop culture character, and this person has nailed this look from head to toe! It’s hard to believe that Mr. White himself is not in for Halloween.

Not everybody likes to go for the regular pop culture icons and well-known figures. Some prefer the more DIY route and outfits that are not mainstream.

This girl came up with a fantastically funny and one-of-a-kind costume idea for Halloween, dressing up as a reporter stuck in a storm! It must be a pretty bad storm too, because it’s not every day that a squirrel gets stuck in your umbrella!

What is more innovative than choosing a character for Halloween that is not our TV show character, but actually our character’s favorite character? Sounds confusing? Let us take a look at this for a clearer picture!

This friendly duo has dressed up as Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy for Halloween, complete with the fire and purple nose cover! These superheroes form a part of the SpongeBob Universe, and are the favorite TV show characters of SpongeBob himself!

This person’s sloth costume is so well made that he looks like a sloth more than an actual sloth! We’re just kidding, but it is obvious that this person has put in considerable time and effort into making this realistic and funny costume!

The only thing that could make this entire Halloween experience better is if this sloth person turns out to be working at the DMV!

Two-people costumes are always amazing — we get double the fun and double the creativity! But, what makes it even better is when people put on their thinking caps and their two-person costume turns into one of the best we’ve ever seen!

These two friends have dressed up as Peter Pan and his shadow for Halloween, and appear to be absolutely loving this Neverland tribute! Especially the photo where the shadow is actually lying down on the ground is a sure Hall of Famer!

Flirty Halloween costumes are things no one is forced to put on, but many women get stuck with! The need to look good and turn heads is quite real, but not everybody is ready to dress up like an alluring kitten for Halloween!

This lady decided to showcase the need for voluptuousness and address it head-on in the most hilarious fashion — by wearing a Clippy dress and putting up an in-your-face message to go with it.

Hands down, Up, one of the cutest animated movies to ever be made, is a great source of inspiration for many kids and adults on Halloween! People just love playing the character of Russell, the young and loveable boy scout from the movie.

However, this costume-wearer is no boy scout anymore. Even so, this adult version of Russell is a doppelganger, complete with balloons, badges, and an expression of pure wonder.

Who says we can only have fun at Halloween parties or while trick-or-treating? As this weatherman’s job calls him to be on screen every day, he has decided to take the holiday spirit and make the best of it.

For the weather watchers that day, it was an extra special viewing as this bat-man flew around the screen telling them the condition of the overhead sky!

It is a well-hidden theory that the people who work at the DMV are not actually humans! They are in fact sloths disguised as humans who only show their true faces in the night when the ghosts come out to play — Halloween!

As much as we love to believe this theory (and DMV workers do nothing to make us believe they are not disguised sloths), we do love the fact that this DMV worker brought us the ultimate costume — DMV worker Flash from Zootopia.

A dog’s cone helps to heal your pup’s injuries and keep him from scratching at it, but it’s not always the most easygoing accessory! Especially on Halloween when pet owners are running around trying to turn their pets into hotdogs!

This owner made the best of an unpleasant situation and turned his dog’s cone into a fancy glass, all complete with a stick of olives! They just need to ensure he doesn’t shake it too much!

The all-time favorite cartoon of yesteryear, Inspector Gadget, featured the titular character in a recognizable costume. Along with the long coat and the hat, the inspector had a ton of gadgets coming out of his hat, making his appearance all the more intriguing!

This person’s Halloween costume as Inspector Gadget is a perfect one, with the hands, gadgets, and magnifying glass on top!

What is more amazing than a person donning a costume that exactly resembles the person being copied, making it quite difficult to distinguish the real from the costume?

This person donned a Freddie Mercury costume and has brought the rock star back to life with an uncanny resemblance! This costume is definitely the champion of the world!

For a couple of years, Game of Thrones single-handedly ruled everything, from TV to Halloween costume ideas! But, while there were many Mother of Dragons and Jon Snows running around, this person decided to become the master that rules them all!

He may be a youngster, but with that beard and glasses, it’s hard to say that the real George R R Martin is not ready to turn Halloween a little darker!

Sidney ‘Sid’ Phillips is a true terror of the animated world, frightning Andy and the toys in the Toy Story movie! He might have been kind of a low-key villain in the grand scheme of things, but to kids watching the movie, he is pretty scary!

This person’s choice of Sid for Halloween is perfect, amazing, and ready to send the toys scurrying for cover once again. Clearly, a lot of thought and effort was put into recreating this moody teen.

What to do when we get not one, not two, but three dogs wanting to dress up for Halloween in the best and finest? Easy, we pick a four-person costume and turn just three of them four-legged!

This team of ghostbusters is the one we would love to have watching our backs and hunting for the paranormal anytime! Not only are they efficient, but there are also plenty of pups to go around anytime someone needs extra cuddles!

Artists also get their own moment of glory in the dark when Halloween descends! People take inspiration from everywhere, and Van Gogh is quite popular in the department of ‘artists to dress up as.’

We’ve got to commend this person’s take on Van Gogh. The red beard is the most distinguished mark of the artist, and the starry night blazer doesn’t hurt either! Bravo!

Ratatouille is a favorite costume inspiration among parents, wherein the fathers love to dress up as Alfredo and turn their kids into varying versions of the rat Remy!

But, what should be done if you don’t have a tiny companion? We become creative, get better, and add in a backlit rat toy under our hat. We’re sure this costume was a huge hit at holiday parties!

If you’re looking to disappear at a party, but still make an impression, we have an idea for you! Or more accurately, this persom has an idea. For this Halloween party, this guy turned up as… fire! Yes, fire!

He sat in the fireplace (as he rightly should), making his presence known only once in a while. It’s the best party trick we’ve seen in a while, and it’s a great way to listen to all the gossip by just blending in with the fireplace.

Princess Leia is a long-time fantasy of many many girls (and boys). After all, no matter which look you choose from the movies, it’s always going to be super iconic

This grandpa wanted his fun in the sun with the Star Wars character, too! Meet grandpa’s version of Princess Leia and R2D2 (yes, it’s a shop vac). We can’t find a single fault with this one.

Do you want to win this Halloween and freak out your pets at the same time? Easy, just dress like them to have the best time of the night!

Obviously, your furry friends will not be enjoying it as much if this cat’s face is anything to go by. She looks horrified, confused, and bewildered all at once looking at her owner’s fake cat head!

Who doesn’t love a good pun? The answer is nobody! That’s why this amazing Disney princess conjuring up a fast-food franchise costume is such a brilliant hit, and rightly so!

Taco Belle (see what she did there?) is a unique costume idea and is truly amazing with its simplicity! The beautiful belle costume with all those taco fillings perfectly conveys the message — on Halloween night, anything and everything can happen.

Hocus Pocus 2 recently hit the screens to enchant a whole new generation into loving these three witches, and bring to old audiences something new to love! So, it’s imperative that we include this costume on this list!

These three sisters are dressed up as the villainous and comic Sanderson sisters. We love how well done everything is in the costume. Children of the town, beware!

Just because we’re dressing up in something cool doesn’t always make for the best costumes. Sometimes, what makes for the best costume is what we end up doing with it — like this gentleman! This person is dressed up as Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, complete with his trademark turtleneck and glasses.

He’s also carrying Apple products in his hand to complete the look. The best part, however, was him brazenly walking into the Apple store like he owned it! We wonder how many people thought that Halloween magic was really working its way around that night.

Our previous weatherman decided to be a bat for Halloween, but this one took a more, shall we say, sunnier route. After all, who doesn’t like a talking sun telling them how their day would be affected by the weather?

Even if the weather wasn’t all that good on this particular day, it’s hard to be mad at the man taking efforts to enjoy a holiday that brings out the child in everybody.

It can be hard for really tall people to come up with new and amazing costume ideas each Halloween! However, since it is Halloween, we can be whatever we want to be. This 7-foot-tall person wanted to be short for a day!

So, he decided to cover up his extra inches and pretend to be an average-height person walking around on stilts! It’s a great way to incorporate height into the costume and stop people from asking ‘how tall are you?’ every other minute.

Him, or His Imperial Majesty, was the third-biggest arch-nemesis of everybody’s favorite girls, the PowerPuff Girls! He loved chaos, and destruction, and made sure to bring them to all the places he went to!

This person’s rendition of Him is perfect from head to toe, from the pout to the one stiletto (brownie points for those) up in the air! Even the expression looks like he’s ready to bring much-needed Halloween coolness to the fray.

These Daft Punk costumes are goals! Not only do they make us feel like needing to immediately move to the groove, but they also tempt us into taking those sneakers and making a run for the hills!

This is probably one of the coolest Halloween costumes to have walked the streets that night! Though they are obviously the musical duo Daft Punk, they also can be called by another name — Seriously Amazing Costume Makers.

When it comes to one of Disney’s most beloved duos, couples can always take on the traditional role of playing the Beauty and the Beast. But, Halloween is a time to do something fun, to go for the unexpected, just like this couple!

Rather than being what they are — a couple — this duo decided to go as Beauty, aka Belle, and the talking candle, Lumière! Who needs a Beast when we can have a bibliophile and her light-hearted husband?

This group of office-goers decided to dress up as dominoes for their wild night out on the town. But, it looks like not everybody got the same memo!

While seven of the group members followed the instructions and dressed up as the black and white game, one of them dominated the show by wearing a pizza to the party! Clearly, this way they’re Domino’s Pizza!

Dressing up is fun, costumes are great, and parties are awesome. But, for some, Halloween is just a big headache that they need to find the easiest to get out of with style! However, easy does not always mean boring.

This man printed a small sign and hung it around his neck, proclaiming he was too lazy to find a costume! He has even printed instructions on his ‘error message’ tips about the right procedure!

Nicholas Cage’s Ghost Rider is a great movie to take inspiration from for Halloween night! However, some revelers just are not satisfied with putting together a simple costume!

Take, for instance, this gentleman, who has gone a step ahead and created a mask that’s astounding in its brilliance. This hotheaded young man has made a Ghost Rider mask from scratch, complete with the skull and flames shooting out of it!

Gollum saying ‘My Precious’ is one of the most iconic scenes in the world of fantasy movies! Gollum himself is a little unhinged by the callings of the ring, and absolutely loses himself when he finds it!

This lady’s choice of costume for Halloween is spot-on spooky and funny! Bald cap, fake teeth — all of these things make her the perfect villainous hobbit. The ring serves to complete the picture.

Britney Spears was arguably one of the most popular artists at the turn of this century. She ruled charts, radio stations, and the hearts of many teenagers! She became an icon, a legend in her own right.

Britney’s outfit in her hit “Baby One More Time” is instantly recognizable. This gentleman recreated the look by adding his own twist for a Halloween party! Can we say ‘baby, one more time’ until the next Halloween comes knocking?

We know we’ve aced Halloween when one look at our costume, even in a photo, is enough to make people flinch and maybe run away in fright! That is what this costume from the Ring franchise does, and it does so with horrific precision.

This costume is a tribute to the main antagonist of the series, Sadako Yamamura, and it curls up the onlooker in the seat! Not a Halloween look we would want to meet up with after the sun sets.