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5 Horribly Wrong Halloween Costumes!!!
At Bloody-Disgusting we celebrate all aspects of Halloween. I’ve been writing about candies, Human-Centipede outfits, even dog costumes. And I have no plans on stopping, we dig that sh*t around here. And, while it’s tempting to go off on a tangent about how we don’t want to cover people who go to far… that would be a lie. This is the kind of stuff that keeps Halloween interesting!
I don’t mean to shame these people either, sometimes there’s nothing wrong with “wrong.” Perhaps they’re all geniuses with an eye towards shaking up the status quo? Maybe “Udder Lady” is a master culture jammer! There’s a chance “toilet lap man” is challenging our preconceived notions about what beauty truly is! Or maybe not.
Either way, it’s not boring. Head below for 5 Horribly Wrong Halloween Costumes!!!
Extra points to this kid for having the exact right look on his face! The design of the costume is pretty ambitious as well. Solid parenting at work!
This gives us a peek into the psyche of a woman (or perhaps an entire frightening subculture) that is probably gentle and innocent in spirit… until you cross them. I wouldn’t want to anger someone with this kind of determination.
This position might look easy, but I imagine it’s fairly hard to maintain throughout the evening.
While it’s pretty f*cked up to highlight an artistic rendering of your unborn child’s skeletal structure, there’s a chance we could write the whole thing off as a misguidedly sweet “mother with child” effort…
… though we can’t say the same about this one. There’s no mistaking the intent here. Still, “A” for effort!
The trailer for Ti West’s upcoming adaptation of A Christmas Carol raised a lot of eyebrows when it dropped earlier this week. While plenty of folks initially dismissed Ebenezer as a derivative project meant to cash in on the recent wave of unnecessary prequels that expand the backstory of beloved characters (such as 2023’s Wonka), Charles Dickens’ original novel already made a point of exploring Ebenezer Scrooge’s origins in detail – meaning that this new film is likely just a particularly faithful adaptation of the source material under a different name.
Couple that with the fact that the movie is being helmed by a genuine horror auteur and I think it’s safe to say that the latest iteration of the first modern ghost story is in good hands.
That being said, one detail that immediately jumped out at me during the brief teaser (other than a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it nod to Johnny Depp’s iconic bedroom death scene from the original A Nightmare on Elm Street) is the fact that many of Ebenezer’s ghosts appear to have been directly lifted from the iconic John Leech illustrations that accompanied the first edition of Dickens’ novel.
Here are a couple of stills from the trailer compared to the original artwork:
The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come in ‘Ebenezer’ and ‘A Christmas Carol’
The Phantoms in ‘A Christmas Carol’ and ‘Ebenezer’
Marley’s Ghost in ‘Ebenezer’ and ‘A Christmas Carol’
Mainly working with old-school wood and steel engravings that would later be transferred to print, Leech was instrumental in crafting the iconic look of history’s most influential phantoms – especially since Dickens is said to have been deeply involved with the creation of these so-called “comic illustrations.”
And since the novel is commonly said to have popularized spiritualism in Victorian England, much of the ghostly iconography that we still see in genre media to this very day (including some of Ti West’s previous films) can be traced back to the author’s partnership with Leech.
Ebenezer won’t be the first A Christmas Carol adaptation to borrow heavily from these designs, but I can appreciate how Ti West is incorporating an important part of horror history into his latest film.
Ebenezer will be available in theaters starting November 13.
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