The best and worst Halloween costumes

Hunter Creel

by Hunter Creel, Alestle photographer

Costumes of Halloween’s past used to be gory and ghoulish, but they’ve devolved into parody or just plain tacky.  After watching a parade of costumes this past Friday and Saturday, I have some costumes that were creative and comical, and others that missed the mark completely.

First I am going to start with the men’s costumes, which are usually comedic characters from pop culture. But where are the costumes from the great horror movies of our time? Where are Freddy, Jason, Michael Myers, The Leprechaun, or even the zombies, vampires, and the occasional Frankenstein?

Since the horror genre was lacking, I’ll go over my favorite men’s costumes of the night. First, one costumed duo that I enjoyed was Dale Denton and Saw from “Pineapple Express.” Saw even brought the schnickelfritz and Pineapple Express, which was actually kale, but a nice recreation.

I also saw Billy Mays selling Oxy Clean to all the partiers in anticipation of spills and stains to come. Sting from the WWF made an appearance Saturday night, but eventually fell into the fire, receiving burns to his hands and back. Not a very good end to the night for Sting.

My favorite men’s costume of the night was a custom-made, bright lavender Grateful Dead Bear. He eventually took on the name Bear for the rest of the evening. To you, Bear, well done.

Now unfortunately I have to start with the women’s costumes, which I was very unimpressed with. On Friday I night I caught flack for being dressed up as Jason from the “Friday the 13th” series, and this was coming from a woman who had barely any clothes. Why has Halloween turned into the weekend where women feel its necessary to wear as little as possible? I must have seen at least 20 different ways to be as revealing as possible.

Women are being an image rather than a character of the imagination, because you leave nothing to it. To all the women who wore clothes, I applause you for not falling into the stereotypical female costume of next to nothing.

Next Halloween, revelers should return to the original message of the holiday and break out the horror. After all, that is what Halloween is really about: ghosts, ghouls and serial killers.