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16 February 2024 | Posted in:  Halloween |

Men's Halloween Costume Ideas

Because Being Totally Gross is OK!

Whether you’re looking for men's Halloween costumes just frightening enough to spook the kids, a little bit more terrifying to stop trick or treaters coming back for seconds, or extreme gore to the point you clog incoming calls to Crime Stoppers – it’s all here, all now – Men's Halloween costumes, let’s do it!

Righto! Where to start?!

Well there are plenty of blokes out there who are pranksters and like freaking people out – so grab your men's Halloween costumes now, because the time of year has come where doing just that is completely acceptable and all the horror glory is yours for the taking!

 

 Image of a man dressed up as a zombie wearing an orange zombie prisoner costume.

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Men's Halloween Costumes – ZOMBIES!!! OH it’s such a go-to theme this year! Popular for their decayed, rotten image, the bloody raw exposed flesh, the dismembered limbs, disembowelled abdomens, the mutated faces and the guttural moans. Shows like the Walking Dead have made these undead, slobbering, lurching zombies the most disgusting men's Halloween costumes for sure! And the styles they come in? You’ll have a field day! First though, we’re going to tell all your acquaintances to keep their innards neatly tucked away, because you know when you choose zombies as your men's Halloween costumes, you’ll be salivating at the chance to poke and prod in a putrid way! Ok, so there’s zombie doctors and surgeons who can slice and dice their way to fresh brains, zombie school boys  and high school football players if you want to be a jock who’s a jerk! Men’s zombie inmates and prisoners plus zombie cops to enforce what? Table manners? There’s also really weird zombie costumes such as undead hippies and pirates, zombie Egyptian Pharoahs, priests, sailors, Roman gladiators and even zombie Super Mario! For extra ooze-factor you should probably go with biohazard infected zombie costumes – they’re more green and toxic – more like the ‘Party Peoples’ zombie look! It doesn’t end there though! The range of men's Halloween costumes – zombified - means fairytales aren’t unscathed, so you can also choose Wizard of Oz twisted Tin Man zombie outfits or a zombie Dwarf on the hunt for Snow White’s guts.

 

Image of a man dressed in a black and red Dracula vampire costume.

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We’ll take it down a notch now just to calm everyone's excitement and talk about Count Dracula and vampire themed men's Halloween costumes. They’re still bloody killers with a lustful leer towards necks, but they somehow make you hold your head a little higher – as if you’re suave. Well, with names like Victorian Vampire and Lord of the Manor, it’s no wonder we can sniff the sophistication in the air! Vampires are like Kings of seduction, they’ll seduce you into becoming their victim, whilst sharpening their fangs and straightening their stiff collars. With the right vampire costume and the right moves, you could have a bunch of blood donors at your mercy…. Probably really good men’s Halloween costumes to choose when you think about it?!

Then there’s well known characters as men's Halloween costumes too, they definitely deserve a look in especially if you guys are hard-core tv and movie buffs! Grab yourselves a globe (if you don’t have a spare just nick the one out the bathroom), stick it in your mouth and dress up as Uncle Fester, that one’s always a classic – or if you’d prefer to keep your hatch free for consuming tasty beverages then go with the other Addams Family man Gomez instead. The good old black and white stripes will give away your Beetlejuice costume without a doubt, as will oversized snippy appendages when you dress up as Edward Scissorhands! Speaking of stripes and snippy appendages….. Freddy Krueger. With the mask to go with it and brown fedora hat, there’ll be nightmares on every corner, not just Elm Street with those horror slasher movie men's Halloween costumes. And we can’t deviate from the slasher movie theme without mentioning Jason. If you plan on a street game of hockey this Halloween, it’ll be ‘Game Off’ when you show up dressed as Jason Voorhees, especially if it’s Friday the 13th… which it won’t be, it’ll be October 31st…. so actually, yeah go for it!

 

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Without getting too nitty grotty, (pun intended) there’s stacks more character themed men's Halloween costumes to choose from. Here’s a quick list: crazed fairytale characters such as The Big Bad Wolf or evil Mad Hatter, Ghostbusters (because we reckon a proton pack is handy as a candy-carrier), Jack the Ripper, Michael Myers, villainous guys like the Joker or Bane, the male family members from The Munsters, V for Vendetta, Predator or Arnie’s favourite – The Terminator!

 

 Image of a person wearing a full body black and white skeleton costume.

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Ghosts seem to have made a comeback this year (the puns are thick and fast too ha!) and make great men's Halloween costumes to wear to your party. They’re not just your usual white sheeted variety either… Nope! Check out some eerie haunting apparitions appearing as spiritual ghost pirates, floaty ghouls and ghost cowboy sheriff costumes too. You can even utilise our long white robes, wear your favourite fancy dress outfit underneath, dust yourself in flour and Voila! Albeit homemade ghostly men’s Halloween costumes on the spot!

Dingly, dangly skeletons are also great men's Halloween costumes. Some of them are quite basic skeleton print costume suits (still cool though because there’s a good chance they’re glow in the dark ones!) and some have an added creepy theme. What does that mean? It means you can find men’s skeleton costumes that also look like a Mexican Day of the Dead outfit, or skeleton punk rocker style or even a tailored skeleton print jacket… so you can be a smartly dressed Mr Bone Jangles.

 

Image of a person wearing a black Grim Reaper costume robe and holding a scythe.

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If the men's Halloween costumes you choose, resemble anything like the Grim Reaper, have the medics on speed dial whilst trick or treating because NOBODY likes it when Death knocks on your door. Strange men wearing long black robes meandering through the neighbourhood…. It’s got to be the Angel of Death. There’s also Soul Reaper costumes…. We’re guessing that they “Reap Souls” which is fair enough…. But it provokes the question about the feisty Grim Reaper… do they “Reap Grims”?  We’ll leave that one with you to ponder….

On to Scary Clowns! With the abundance of general civilisation who are scared of clowns, if you choose these men's Halloween costumes…. Hilarity will ensue! They are pretty freaky though. Evil clowns, killer clowns, evil jesters – it’s a circus waiting to happen, and if “Last Laugh Clown” is your pick for the night, we won’t expect an encore.

Has anyone ever told you “You’re Going to Hell!!”? Well if the shoe fits, make it count and check out some devil outfits as your men's Halloween costumes of choice. They’re red hot, they’re devilish, they’re menacing and demonic, and they’re really fun! Stick on some devil horns, paint your whole body red and keep your devil’s pitchfork handy – you can either annoy everyone with some well-placed playful stabs or just use it at the all-you-can-eat buffet…. We reckon the latter!

There’s probably one more sub-genre of men's Halloween costumes we should mention… and that’s the funny ones! If you’re a guy who gets a kick out of stupid stuff… then these fancy dress outfits are for you. Want some examples? How about a box of cereal so you can be a “Cereal Killer” or get around with a plastic knife and a giant B on your chest (Killer Bee) they’re almost the costume versions of ‘Dad Jokes’ right?! You could choose to dress up as a Popcorn vendor cinema usher dolling out the brain food, a fat vampire, a mental patient in a strait jacket (may result in being very hungry by the end of the night), a headless horseman (may result in being very hungry by the end of the night), an inflatable pumpkin (steer clear of devil’s pitchforks) or a life sized Tombstone…. The ultimate resting place for all your  ‘Halloweened-Out’ mates once the night is over. Just like this post…. It’s over. Now hurry up and go and get your men's Halloween costumes.

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