17 costume fails that are scary for all the wrong reasons

These beautiful Halloween disasters are a total treat.
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Andy Moser
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Spooky season has finally returned. It's time for candy, cavities, and costumes.

Everyone wants a strong costume game for Halloween. While there are sure to be infinite stellar outfits this year, there will also be plenty at the other end of the spectrum — the kind that scare you for all the wrong reasons. The kind that will have hoards of crying children fleeing porches without a single Tootsie Roll at the sight of them. The kind that should be the result of one too many Hallows' Eve tequila shots but could actually be embarrassingly earnest cases of trial and error.

You may not live down crafting a wretchedly ghoulish costume, but it's a Halloween experience as traditional as trick-or-treating or horror movie marathons. And with that, let's raise our skeleton-hand chalices high in a solemn toast to all of our spectacular Halloween costume blunders of years past.


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1. Communication is key

2. There's a reason the "Midriff Wiggle" never made it to TV

3. If anyone was looking for a reference for their buttholes-with-eyes costume this year

4. As viscerally terrifying as this is, we encourage all attempts at homemade Gritty costumes

5. Monstrous cookie abomination

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6. 🎶 Beauty and What I See In The Corner Of My Room During Sleep Paralysis 🎶

7. Buzzed Lightyear

8. Cursedby

9. This Bert and Ernie duo is wholly upsetting

10. Gonna go out on a limb and say the cat was not feeling the spooky spirit

11. Judged the Yoda hat by its size, did you?

12. This is what happens when you cut corners

13. Holding up a cross to this... cotton candy?

14. Wack Panther

15. No trident for the Aquaman costume? Stick a fork in it

16. An animal? Or a pancreas with a face? You decide

17. Is BB-8 swallowing this dog?

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Andy Moser

Andy is a fellow on Mashable's Culture team. He graduated with a B.S. from the University of North Florida in 2018 and moved to New York to pursue journalism in culture and entertainment. He can (and will) talk for too long about Star Wars and movies in general. His fear of stinging insects and 80+ degree weather will keep him inside forever. He wishes he were shorter.

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