#5. Jabba the Hutt from RETURN OF THE JEDI

Well if you’re gonna eat all that candy anyway, why not look the part? Perhaps not best suited for Trick-or-Treating, the Jabba costume would be fantastic for those hosting Halloween parties. A relatively complex and impressive costume in any right that allows you to be stationary and keep tabs on who’s eating all of your punch and pie. And if you really want to be scary, you can always scrap the costume and just walk around with a giant green posterboard behind you– and tell people you’re Jabba from the special addition.

#4. The Other Mother from CORALINE

Now we’re getting spine-tingly ding-ly! CORALINE was in many ways, the first (recent) horror film for kids, and with very good reason. The Henry Selick stop-motion film was ripe with spooky imagery and dark concepts, with much of that culminating in the film’s villain The Other Mother. Controller of a ‘perfect’ parallel universe where the eyes have been replaced with creepy black buttons, The Other Mother entices children of our world to hers with rich foods, elaborate gifts and tantalizing musical numbers. Of course once there, the Other Mother intends to keep the children there. Forever.

Either way, this costume would be an incredible find and worthy of some major praise for any whom wear it. Dressed in either the hideous true form of or even in the human-mother disguise form, this is sure to be the scariest mother on our list.

#3. Mrs. Vorhees from FRIDAY THE 13TH

Then again…

Here’s a great obscure costume that is easy to accomplish and with a little performance, will maintain a terrifying level of threat. Mrs. Vorhees, or the mother of FRIDAY THE 13TH’s Jason, was the original slasher come the first film, avenging the death of her poor drowned son. (Oh, spoiler alert for a 31 year old movie that has ten sequels and a recent remake.) The best thing about Mrs. Vorhees as a costume is if you get involved in some dangerous Halloween shenanigans, you can always pass yourself off as a normal passerby, that is if you can explain away the huge knife, axe and blood stains.

#2. Transformed Tetsuo from AKIRA

Okay. If you can pull of this costume, you are TALENTED. Maybe to a frightening degree, but I’d still have to see how this costume would be pulled off in live action. Tetsuo is a gifted telekinetic in the incomparable anime AKIRA, whom goes just a bit power-hungry and unleashes his fury on the world… transforming into something I don’t quite know how to put into words. In fact, the picture above doesn’t even do it justice. Watch the video below to get a real impression of what this thing looks like:

All right, are you ready for the number one?

The most terrifying costume we want to see.

Shield the eyes of the children…

#1. GOOBY

Good… Good Godzilla… it’s hideous, isn’t it? Where is that Rhinoceros Beetle, I need to gouge my eyes out with its horns.

Yes the horrific love child of Fozzy Bear and THE SHINING Bear Guy, GOOBY is the titular character from a low-budget 2009 family film about a teddy bear come to life. Gooby is quite obviously straight out of the uncanny valley, and the costume alone is one of the most unsettling things I’ve seen this Halloween, and I’m talking about looking at a Google search. Imagine actually seeing the costume in person… the eyes… the arms… outstretched for a big bear hug… oh no, it’s just too much… I take it back, this isn’t number one… if I see this costume tonight I don’t think I’ll live to see another ‘ween.

I think we’ll be okay… if we don’t have to look at it ever again…

AAGGAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

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