2012
I am the Wolf Man, my Twin Brother and his girlfriend are walking dead, my oldest at age 7 the Grim Reaper, my youngest at age 4 Batman.
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"I want my birthday cake Bedilia!"
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Frankenpumpkin 2012
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Last year we decided to do a Universal Monsters theme with me as Frankenstein's monster, my 6 year old as the Wolf Man, my 3 year old as Dracula, and my twin brother as the Mummy.
2011
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2010
My oldest at age 5 the skeleton
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Me as a tiger
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My brother as the Headless Horseman
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2009
Me as the ghost of Jacob Marley from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
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My brother's version of the monster
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Frankenpumpkin 2009
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2008
Me as Pennywise the clown from IT
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Me as Indiana Jones
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My brother as the Grim Reaper
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He was also an old vampire
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2007
Me as a skeleton
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My brother as a vampire
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I was also a werewolf
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2006
Me as a leopard
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My brother as a deranged old man
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2005
Me again as Pennywise the clown from IT
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2003
Me again as a skeleton
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2002
My brother the plague carrier
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2001
My brother the tree and me as a goblin
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2000
Me as a skull, my brother as a werewolf
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1999
My brother as the Emperor and a buddy as a demon
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Me as Darth Maul
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In 1999 Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace was due to hit theaters. The excitement was in the air. I amongst thousands of fans had waited for 16 years since seeing the last Star Wars film Return of the Jedi in the theaters. In May a week before the release I participated in a Star Wars costume contest as the new villain the Sith Lord Darth Maul and won 1st place. I know it wasn't really Halloween but for one day that summer it felt like it. Using the picture from the toy that I had bought for my little brother, my twin painted my face and put the colored contacts in my eyes (I had never used contacts before and couldn't get them in). A purchased lightsaber, a black trench coat inside out under my martial arts gi, a thick vulcanized rubber belt and leather boots rounded out the rest of the costume. I know the horns are too big but we hadn't seen the movie yet so we didn't know, and it was hard to tell from the toy. The horns were standard devil horns. Now a days you can purchase "alien horns" that are closer to screen accurate but back then that was all there was. Two news stations covered the event and I won a cash prize as well as 500 bucks worth of vintage Star Wars toys, that I still have. Here is the toy I bought for my little brother that I based the makeup off of.
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1998
My brother as a werewolf
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1997
My little brother as a reaper, my twin brother as a vampire
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1996
Me as Boba Fett
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For Halloween 1996 I was the notorious bounty hunter Boba Fett. Yes, I know you can drop about 2 grand and have a better Fett outfit than mine but remember I made mine from scratch except for the Don Post 1995 helmet. All for under fifty bucks (including helmet) with stuff lying around the house and spraypaint. All without the aid of a computer or templates, using only the original Star Wars VHS tapes and the toy as reference
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1995
A friend as a witch, my brother in the Frankenstein's monster mask, me as a vampire, my little brother the ninja, grandma, a friend in a Jason mask
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My brother is wearing an Illusive concepts Frankenstein's monster mask
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1994
A friend as a zombie, my brother the sun-burnt vampire, my little brother as Frankenstein's monster, and me as the Wolf Man
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1992
My brother the hag, my little brother the vampire, me as the Mummy, a friend as the lecher vampire, and grandma.
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In 1992 I made a Boris Karloff Imhotep Mummy costume with an Illusive Concepts Mummy mask and lots and lots of masking tape on some long johns underwear, gardening gloves and a pair of Vans shoes. I spray painted the tape various grays, tans and browns until it became stiff. I then painted on little scarab beetles, vultures, cartouches, an ankh, Horus, a cobra, and the eye of Ra with acrylics. My brother was an old sea hag Illusive Concepts mask, my little brother the vampire, and a buddy reusing a Distortions Unlimited Letcher mask.
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Also in the picture is my grandmother. Her house was our last trick or treat stop for many years so she could see our costumes. After she had passed away I was helping my mom clean her place and managed to get all of her old Halloween decorations.
Here are some vintage tin shaker noise makers with witches.
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This tin noise maker has a crank lever that twists around making a screeching yowling cat sound. The black cat tin noisemaker spins around and clicks.
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I have seen this Pumpkin blow mold lamp with witch hat all my life and these were my very first pumpkin trick or treat pails. Scroll back up to the first baby picture and you will see they have always been a part of my Halloween. When my sons were old enough to carry a pail they carried these too.
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This is a cool ceramic ghost lamp that has been with my family for several Halloweens and some random pumpkin containers and characters..
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I even kept some of her cupcake toppers.
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Grandma's house was always last on our trick or treat route (after several neighborhoods, and the mall) and she always had something special saved just for us. It was usually in a paper treat bag, I saved some of them.
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1991
My brother and me as terminators
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day came out in 1991. Well it was a pretty cool movie so it should be no surprise that me and my brother wanted to be Terminators. We might have gone a little overboard on the fake blood. Sadly many of our Halloween pictures are old and faded, or like this Polaroid cracking and splitting. The masks were Living Faces Cyborg Skull. We bought one mask and split it between us. The cool thing was that we added a glowing red light-up eye for the skull's eye socket. It ran off a 9 volt battery connected by wire over our ear and to our shirt collar. If you look close behind my ear you can see the wire, I am the one on the right.
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1990
Me and my brother as werelions, a friend in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle garb, and my little brother the skeleton
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Nu Skin/Topstone werelion masks? My little brother the skeleton is holding a Mcdonald's Mc Punk'n pail.
1988
Me as a zombie, my brother the skull demon
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I was a split face zombie farmer I guess with a scythe. It was the Distortions Unlimited Hack mask. My brother was the Distortions Unlimited Desert Demon. It was 6th grade and the first time we were banned from the school costume parade. Our school had a parade that started with the kindergartners and progressed through the grades adding classes as they passed them until coming full circle to your own classroom. That way each class got to see every costume. The principal argued that we were too scary for most kids let alone the little ones and we had to wait it out with our masks in our desks. I remember seeing my mask on some cheesy b-movie zombie film VHS cover when going to the video rental store. I wish I could remember the name of the movie.
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1987
Me as Freddy Krueger, a buddie as a domino, my brother as a letcher vampire
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My brother is in a Distortions Unlimited Letcher mask that always reminded me of a vampire cross between the witch off of Legend Meg Rucklebones and Uncle Creepy and the Creep from Creepshow 2
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For some reason I decided to be a generic looking possibly unlicensed Freddy Krueger. The claw glove was cool though. What can I say that was the year Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors came out and I guess it had an effect on me.
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1986
Me as a zombie doctor, my cousin as a ghost, my brother as the Wolf Man
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In 1986 I was a zombie with a split face that I think is a Top Stone/Nu Skin mask that I painted and added glass eyes to and for some reason I thought scrubs would go with that so I am a zombie doctor. I don't know how the zombie died but in addition to the split face he also has a bullet hole in his forehead. My brother is the Top Stone/Nu Skin Wolfman. My brother sewed fur inside the shirt and then ripped it to show the fur coming through, it turned out pretty cool. My cousin the ghost behind us.
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1985
Me as a red devil, my cousin as a golden leopard, and my brother as the green demon
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1985 was the year of our first latex rubber masks bought at either K-Mart or Grand Central. I am the Nu Skin Red Devil and my bro is the Nu Skin Green Demon with the light up horns. To a kid nothing is worse than having to wear a coat over your costume (I remember several Halloweens with snow on the ground) or lining up for pictures when all you want to do is go trick or treating. Thank goodness for mothers who knew how valuable the photos would be to us one day. There are two sets of these photos of course with and without masks on. My cousin is the punk leopard. I don't know who the other kids are they just happened to knock on the door while trick-or-treating and somehow ended up in the photo we were taking right then.
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1983
Me as the vampire and my brother as a skeleton
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I am the Ben Cooper Hairy and Scary Dracula and my brother is the Hairy and Scary Mr. Skeleton
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1980
Me as Chewbacca, my cousin the gypsy, my brother as Yoda
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In 1980 The Empire Strikes Back had hit the theaters so naturally we picked Ben Cooper Star Wars costumes that year. I was Chewbacca and my brother was Yoda. I guess my cousin was a gypsy maybe? I still have the ceramic ghost. I think the cut outs in the window are Beistle as well.
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1979
My brother as a skeleton, my uncle a skull, my cousin as a Kooky Spooky Ishy Bat, me the werewolf, and my dad the Wolf Man
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That year was especially memorable. My dad sat outside among a devil and witch dummy before my aunt showed up. She is the aunt that always had to take pictures of everything. She promptly went outside to take pictures of the spooky yard dummies. My dad waited until her second picture before pouncing and growling. Now my aunt was how should I say it, a short but very, very large lady. Nevertheless, she dropped the camera and hurdled the fence in the front yard without touching it (a good three and a half feet). My dad was laughing so hard he could hardly catch up to her to explain who he was. When she turned around and saw the Wolf Man still in hot pursuit it made her scream and run that much harder and faster. She made it over a block down the street before he caught up. She was grumpy the rest of the night. The night lives on in our family legends.
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My brother is the Collegeville skeleton and I am the Collegeville werewolf both were available from 1979 into the early 1980s.
(http://www.plaidstallions.com/collegeville/198312.jpg)
My uncle is in the Don Post Bones 300 line mask.
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Can someone please identify the Wolf Man/ Werewolf mask my dad is wearing?
My cousin has a huge inflatable Kooky Spooks Ishy Bat monster on her head. I think there were eight kinds: Bone Head, Scardy Cat, Wunkin Punkin, Ishy Bat, Woblin Goblin, Spacy Casey, Howly Owl, and Wonder Witch.
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(http://snaggsart.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Bone-Head.jpg)
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I also still have the Beistle? Pumkin Headed Ghost cut out in the picture.
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1978
Me and my brother as clowns, my cousin as a lion, my aunt as Groucho Marx, and my uncle as a chimney sweep
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My cousin is wearing a Collegeville lion costume available through most of the 70s
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1977
Me and my brother's first Halloween
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I still have the blow mold pumpkin with witches hat that still works and the pumpkin pails.
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I also still have the pumpkin figures.
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What an amazing display of incredible talent with all of the make-up and costumes and just a love of our favorite season! Thank you for sharing all of these!
APPLAUSE!! APPLAUSE!! (I was actually clapping last night when I was looking at this photo journey!!)
I would like to express my appreciation to whomever decided to photograph these costumes through the years! What an awesome collection, Ghost! I have pictures of my kids' costumes, but they are spread out all over the place in different boxes, photo albums, desk drawers, etc.- but you have inspired me to get them together as a collection. Thanks for sharing these besutifully scary pictures! I don't know where you live, but your background scenery is amazing! Every photo is so unique and lovely :)
I will most likely go back and look again, and I've already shown my husband the pictures....of course, he just said "WOW". But I really hope other UMA members can post more photos of their Halloween memories (especially the ones from the old days). There used to be an old Halloween costumes topic, so maybe it will rise up from the undead.
I really enjoyed your family pictures, Ghost. And with your younglings joining in, you should have decades ahead of you to make more Halloween photo shoots! Great job, monster friend!
Ghost~ I enjoyed looking at all the costumes from vintage to present, some really wonderful makeups done as well.
I give this thread two thumbs up >:D
Thank you Dr. Geist, Charp, and CreepyJeff now to figure out what to be next year before the wifey comes up with the group costume ideas for the family.
LOVE THIS THREAD!!!
Very cool detailed thread. Thanks for all the many many cool pics showing the transition in costumes and make up. I'm sure it took a ton of time to do this. You Sir have liquid candy corn flowing thru your veins. tynhrt
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I love the timeline aspect of the costumes taking you back to the Ben Coopers. Great pics, even cooler you still have them with your brother.
I wish we could find pictures of the missing years. Unfortunately I think we have exhausted that possibility. My costumes are always better than my twin brother Ghost. the pictures are proof lol. I had to concede his Wolfman this year it probably can't be topped just like he said my Mummy can't be beat he isn't even going to try. There are still a few Universal Monsters to attempt but how in the world does one pull off a great Creature of the Black Lagoon? Back to the drawing board... for next year thrhrt
Quote from: ravenloft on November 14, 2012, 01:26:40 PM
I wish we could find pictures of the missing years. Unfortunately I think we have exhausted that possibility. My costumes are always better than my twin brother Ghost. the pictures are proof lol. I had to concede his Wolfman this year it probably can't be topped just like he said my Mummy can't be beat he isn't even going to try. There are still a few Universal Monsters to attempt but how in the world does one pull off a great Creature of the Black Lagoon? Back to the drawing board... for next year thrhrt
What!? I say it depends on how you judge by year or type of costume.
Best Wolf Man/ Werewolf Me Wolf Man 2012 vs me Collegeville werewolf 1979, you Nuskin Wolf Man 1986, me werewolf 1994, you werewolf 1998, you werewolf 2000, me werewolf 2007
Best Frankenstein monster Me 2011 vs you Illusive Concepts mask 1995, you 2009
Best Mummy you 2011 vs me Illusive Concepts mask 1992
Best Vampire you 2007 vs you 2008, you 1997, me 1995, you 1994, you Distortions Unlimited mask 1987, me Ben Cooper mask 1983
Best Star Wars me Darth Maul 1999 vs you Emperor 1999, me Boba Fett Don Post 1996, you Ben Cooper Yoda 1980, me Ben Cooper Chewbacca 1980
Best Zombie you 2012 vs you me 1986 Topstone mask, me 1988 Distortions Unlimited mask, you 2002 plague carrier
Best Cat me tiger 2010 vs me leopard 2006, me werelion 1990you werelion 1990
Best skull/Skeleton tie me 2007 you grim reaper 2008 vs you Ben Cooper 1983, you Collegeville 1979, you 1988 Distortions Unlimited mask, me 2000 makeup
Best ghost me 2009 Jacob Marley vs you 2010 headless horseman
Best TV/Film adaptation not previously covered me Indiana Jones 2008 vs me Pennywise 2008, me Pennywise 2005, me and you Terminators 1991, me Freddy Kruger 1987
Best Oddball you sea hag Illusive Concepts mask 1992, me and you demons Topstone masks 1985, you old man 2006, you tree man 2001, me goblin 2001
Totals wins by category me 6 vs you 4 ;D
1977 tie babies
1978 tie clowns
1979 tie Collegeville
1980 tie Ben Cooper
1983 tie Ben Cooper
1985 tie Topstone/Nuskin
1986 you win Wolfman Topstone/Nuskin
1987 you win Letcher Distortions Unlimited
1988 tie Distortions Unlimited
1990 tie Topstone/Nuskin
1991 tie terminators
1992 I win Mummy Illusive Concepts
1994 you win vampire
1995 I win vampire
1996 I win default Boba Fett no costume to compare
1997 you win default vampire no costume to compare
1998 you win default werewolf no costume to compare
1999 I win Darth Maul
2000 tie both lame makeups
2001 I win goblin
2002 you win plague carrier no costume to compare
2003 I win skull no costume to compare
2005 I win Pennywise no costume to compare
2006 you win old man
2007 I win skull
2008 you win grim reaper
2009 I win Jacob Marley ghost
2010 you win headless horseman
2011 you win mummy
2012 you win zombie
Total wins by year 9 me vs you 11 >:(
Oh man! So disappointing to see that all the pictures were Facebook links and they're all gone now.
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