Halloween is just around the corner and with it the creative transformations into scary characters. As in the past, this year too, pop culture has a big influence on costume ideas. The star shows which famous film and television characters will be haunting this year’s Halloween parties.
The scary-beautiful time of the year is almost here again – Halloween! On October 31st we transform ourselves into scary characters, dance to Michael Jackson’s Thriller at parties and awaken our spirits with spooky drinks. But before we can start spooking on the dance floor, we need the right outfit. Choosing a costume for Halloween is a challenge every year. Because it has to be original. If you want to attract attention, you should take a look at this year’s pop culture events.
Classics from recent years
Film and television characters in particular have been popular templates for Halloween costumes for decades. In the 1980s, costumes of characters such as from his “Thriller” music video, ET from the movie “ET – The Extra-Terrestrial” and the “” was very popular. In the following decade, it was the “Power Rangers”, “Ninja Turtles” or “Matrix” characters. Then, in the early 2000s, costumes of Harry Potter, the characters from “The Lord of the Rings” and from the “Star Wars” series followed. Most recently, people in “Game of Thrones”, -, or ““-costumes are causing havoc on the dance floor. What’s in this year?
Bangs, braids and “ice-cold hands”
Many fans are already eagerly awaiting the next season of a popular teen horror series. We are talking about “Wednesday”. The plot: Wednesday Addams is a student at a boarding school for outcasts. At first she finds everything quite boring, but then a series of murders terrifies the town. The character is known for her cool gaze, her jet-black hair, her straight bangs, and braids on the right and left. The “Wednesday” outfit is complete with an American school uniform or a gothic dress. As a Halloween companion, “” should not be missed. A consisting of wig, dress, belt and shoes, is available for around 40 euros.
Halloween costumes 2024: Barbie and Ken
Still a trending color: pink! Until recently, everything was about Barbie. Posters everywhere, photo booths that looked like Barbie boxes, pink clothes in shops and, and, and. Because last year Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” was released in cinemas and celebrated the most successful cinema debut of the year. So it’s clear that this momentous pop-cultural event will be celebrated once again on Halloween. The most famous outfit from the film is perhaps Margot Robbie’s cowboy look. The is available for around 30 euros. And with a few red spots and scary make-up, the brightly colored outfit becomes a scary horror eye-catcher. The matching outfit is also available in .
Creative alternative: Oppenheimer
Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer was released in cinemas at the same time as Barbie and competed with the blonde doll for first place in the box office charts. The film is about the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, whose work on the top-secret Manhattan Project was a leading role. Oppenheimer worked with other scientists for years on the development of the atom bomb.
At the time of the film’s release, one meme was unavoidable: the well-known portrait of Cillian Murphy, who plays Oppenheimer, with a black hat, a serious look and a cigarette in his mouth. can be made with a few simple items of clothing: hat, shirt, tie, suspenders, jacket, suit trousers – if you feel like it, you can smoke a classic pipe that evening to round off the Oppenheimer outfit.
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