Halloween and Horror Costumes

How to turn a Halloween Costume into a Horror Costume.

When choosing Halloween costumes, people don't often consider wearing outfits beyond the confines of traditional ideas such as spooky ghosts, blood thirsty vampires or warty witches. New, more outrageous themes of men’s Halloween costumes and women’s Halloween costumes have emerged over time, and as this scary, gruesome and creepy time of year steadily approaches there are some brilliant alternative Halloween ideas you may like to ponder!

Horror costumes!!! If you're looking to take out the 'freakiest freak' title at this year’s Halloween party, or if trick-or-treating revenge on your neighbours is on the cards, then let your crazy imagination run wild with some blood-curdling adult Halloween fancy dress horror costumes.

The use of awesome Halloween accessories is the key factor to pulling off more gruesome and gory horror costumes as opposed to just a regular 'scary' one. It's true that fantastic Halloween costumes will turn heads on the street, but it’s the little added extras you showcase that will have fellow party goers crazy with envy and after your blood, fake blood – literally!

Any men's or women's basic fancy dress costume can be tweeked, twirled and twisted to make you look like the walking dead, an evil predatory psycho, blood thirsty vampire or a combination of many, to create your own unique horror costumes. Let's have a quick look at the Malice in Horrorland Halloween costume - a brilliant twisted alternative to the original Alice in Wonderland character. If you did however,  choose to remain slightly more true to the original Alice character, whilst subtly morphing it into a gruesome horror spin-off, then the traditional Alice in Wonderland costume will suit just fine, as long as you have some kick butt horror accessories on hand to make her look like a massacred mess!

Fake blood, whether you prefer stage quality theatrical blood spray or blood tubes, or blood caps which are released inside your mouth, are all a wicked start to transforming a boring scary look into vile horror costumes. Why not go for a completely individualised style, for example the unfortunate victim of an insane knife yielding Grim Reaper attacker with conveniently placed blood splatter stains all over your costume, face, arms and legs, then go all out by having a friend chase you around your party with a toy chainsaw! Just an idea!!

Halloween face paints and character specific make up kits can be used to add creepy, dead looking shadowing for hollow cheeks and eye sockets, or even to thump on (metaphorically!) some fake bruising in places which suit your horror costumes. Other cool accessories such as the ‘knife on a headband’ are a great (not to mention funny) horror addition to your fancy dress outfit. If you’ve got the gory guts to do it after you've spent the dough... then tearing and shredding up your Halloween outfits into sections is a fail proof (and simple!) way to add a slaughtered look to your horror costumes!

If your aim this Halloween is to exhibit the 'be all and end all' of stand out horror costumes, tipping the freak-o-meter off the chart, then prosthetics are the way to go! Prosthetics are a range of latex product accessories you can use to completely transform your human look  into something gruesome, sickening and unfathomable! These latex accessories and special effects kits are so realistic it's not even funny! They come in a variety of awesome horror designs, some already decorated and painted whilst others start as a blank canvas but include make-up kits and instructions, so you can create your own creature of terror! This range of brilliant latex horror special effects are of theatrical stage quality and are commonly used by cinematic industry professionals. Latex special effects products require the use of spirit gum adhesive (glue, basically!) to attach the products to whichever body part you intend to use them on. Liquid latex can then be used in smoothing out any uneven edges and to give your wounds, scars, skin etc a weird 3D effect! At Heaven Costumes you will also find a range of smaller latex products and Halloween accessories to use with lots of different men’s or women’s horror costumes such as devil and demon horns, body warts, scars and scabs, nail in hand puncture wounds and neck bolts. Bigger and better more elaborate Halloween latex accessories include textured full face and neck kits such as zombies, werewolves, witches, demons, satyrs and gorillas.

All these spine chilling Halloween accessories are the perfect way to liven (or deaden!) up your horror costumes this spooky season. If you do choose to broaden your horizons by taking on these ghoulish tips for your costume this year, there'll be one more thing we need to pass on..... we do recommend staying away from small children, the elderly and anyone with a heart condition! Yes, that’s how superbly freaky these Halloween fancy dress costumes and Halloween horror accessories will make you look!

Happy Halloween and Happy Shopping!