Halloween Costume Tips From Scream’s Costume Designer

Avery Plewes has at all times beloved Halloween. “Halloween was my favourite vacation as a child,” she tells POPSUGAR. “Earlier than I used to be a dressing up designer, I used to be so into it. I might go all out.” Nonetheless, now that she’s designed costumes for a number of the largest horror films within the enterprise — together with 2022’s “Scream 6” — she’s much less inclined to decorate up, given the truth that she spends the entire yr crafting elaborate costumes for the display.

That additionally means she has an enormous quantity of Halloween costume experience to share with the remainder of us. Plewes took a very deep dive into Halloween icons of yore whereas costuming “Scream 6,” which takes place throughout one lengthy, bloody Halloween weekend in New York Metropolis. “I needed to design as many costumes for the background as I might to make it really feel as practical as doable, and likewise to have the viewers get misplaced within the Halloween of all of it,” she says. Particularly, Plewes needed to go all out for a terrifying scene that takes place on the subway, the place the actual Ghostface blends in with numerous costumed riders dressed as everybody from the Babadook to Julia Fox. “That scene was like my baby,” she says, describing it as a second of “disaster” for the characters.

“Faux blood at all times helps, in my view.”

Whereas a lot of the costumes in legacy franchises like Scream should be put collectively completely, Plewes had to verify the subway riders’ costumes regarded just a little extra haphazard. In films, “while you’re reproducing a glance, you at all times need it to be as correct as doable,” she says. “However for this, I needed to unlearn that as a result of typically with Halloween, it is like, ‘Oh, I’ve a shirt that form of seems like what Freddy Krueger would put on.'”

Luckily, which means she has loads of easy tricks to supply the remainder of us in relation to placing collectively fast and straightforward tributes to our Halloween characters of selection, together with the “Scream 6” characters themselves. In case you’re planning on dressing up as a personality from the film apart from Ghostface, Plewes suggests pairing that extra unusual look with a scary character from the subway scene for a singular couple’s costume.

In terms of truly deciding on a dressing up, Plewes’s recommendation is to observe your coronary heart. “I at all times assume individuals have essentially the most enjoyable once they choose a dressing up from one thing that is significant to them — and likewise comfy,” she says. “I might at all times personally lean into both a franchise or a film or one thing that I actually get pleasure from, as a result of placing the costume collectively can be extra enjoyable that manner.”

Forward, try Plewes’s tips about how one can costume as a number of the many characters featured in “Scream 6″‘s subway scene.