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“Stranger Things” Ruled Halloween This Year; Check Out Some Awesome Costumes!
They look pretty. Good. They look pretty good.
Well before anyone even started prepping for Halloween, fans across the country had already begun dressing up as their favorite characters from this past summer’s Netflix series “Stranger Things.” In fact, we collected together some of our favorite “Stranger Things” cosplay back in August. But Halloween, well, it was absolutely dominated by the show.
If you attended any Halloween parties this year, you surely came across a handful of mega-fans dressed up as beloved characters like Eleven, Dustin, and Barb. I spent Halloween night at a bar that was filled almost exclusively with people cosplaying as characters and even specific props and moments from the show, and I’ve gotta say, it was really cool to see that something so new has already become so iconic. The series has been criticized for being little more than an homage to the past, but it sure has created a vast amount of new iconography here in the present.
Of course, it would be impossible to highlight all the “Stranger Things” costumes that made this year’s Halloween feel so very ’80s, but we wanted to at least scour Imgur and pluck out some choice selections. So below you’ll find some of our favorite “Stranger Things” costumes we’ve come across, all of which should put a smile on your face.
Bring on Season 2, Netflix!
And perhaps the most impressive costume of all…
While you wait for Alien: Romulus, the folks over at Devilworks have cooked up their own slice of “mockbuster” fun with Alien Hunt, and we’re debuting the trailer here on BD this morning.
This brand-new sci-fi horror from director Aaron Mirtes (The Bigfoot Trap, Painted in Blood) is set for its US premiere on May 14, and you can find it on digital thanks to Devilworks.
You can exclusively watch the official trailer for Alien Hunt below, which looks to combine elements of Alien and Predator. This particular “mockbuster” has very little interest in hiding its inspirations, with the alien designs plucked straight out of H.R. Giger’s beautiful brain. Hey, if you’re going to pull from other movies, might as well take from the all-time greats!
In Alien Hunt, “On a hunting trip in the wilderness, a group of siblings discovers an abandoned military outpost on their land, but is it what it seems?
“Their trip takes a sinister turn when they find themselves facing off against a relentless army of extra-terrestrial beings. Suddenly, the hunters become the hunted.
“The formidable squad of alien soldiers will stop at nothing to wipe out the enemy and in an all-out, brutal battle for survival, it’s kill or be killed in Alien Hunt.”
Barron Boedecker (Escape Pod, The Bigfoot Trap), Brent Bentley (The Perfect In-Laws, Haunt Season), Deiondre Teagle (The Visitor, Painted in Blood, Death Ranch), Chelsey Fuller (The Bigfoot Trap, The Silent Natural), Jesse Santoyo (A Nashville Country Christmas, Potter’s Ground), and Adam Pietripaoli (The Bigfoot Trap, The OctoGames) star.
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