Celebrities have gone all out with some impressive big-budget Halloween costumes over the past few years, exposing some of the lower-effort attempts at dress-up for what they really are. In 2024, these costumes left us cowering...in shame.
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00:00Celebrities have gone all out with some impressive big-budget Halloween costumes
00:04over the past few years, exposing some of the lower-effort attempts at dress-up for
00:08what they really are. In 2024, these costumes left us cowering — in shame.
00:14Actor and model Taylor Hill had the chance to show off while hosting Jinx Dogfood's
00:18Halloween party, so we were a little disappointed that the beauty played it safe with a simple
00:22witch costume. Hill looked gorgeous in the lace-trimmed garments with sheer panels and
00:26tulle accents, but it ultimately added up to an unmemorable ensemble.
00:31Comedian Patti Harrison isn't afraid to push the envelope on I Think You Should Leave.
00:35I know that. I'm not stupid. I'm smarter than you.
00:41But she might have misstepped with her Michael Jackson costume. There's debate over whether it
00:45was okay for her to dress as a Black man, and Harrison also recreated Jackson from a very
00:50specific, shocking moment when he dangled his infant son over a balcony in 2002.
00:54Ultimately, this look was a wild choice, with one user on Ex, formerly Twitter,
00:59already asking,
01:00"...where were you when you found out about Patti Harrison's Michael Jackson costume?"
01:04Sweet but psycho singer Ava Max committed a cardinal Halloween sin by delivering a boring
01:09costume. Did she look great? Of course, and we're sure that was the whole point. Fishnets and
01:14pinafores are easy shortcuts to a flirty, spooky-season look, but there's nothing memorable
01:18about a cutesy Disney character at Halloween. The only thing that could make such an obvious
01:22costume worse is if another celebrity did it better. Maybe no one will notice that Selena
01:27Gomez and Benny Blanco really hit Wonderland out of the park.
01:31Nicola Peltz-Beckham offered another sexy snoozefest by dressing up as a Playboy bunny.
01:36While the Bates Motel actor always looks good with blonde locks, the simplicity of the look
01:40left a lot to be desired. Was it timely, daring, or unexpected? No to all three. Whatever led
01:46Peltz-Beckham to choose this costume, we hope she puts a little more thought into it next year.
01:51Sophie Turner's style has been serving since her divorce from Joe Jonas,
01:54but we weren't wowed by her turn as Trinity from The Matrix. Maybe it was the unnecessary
01:59choice to take Trinity's already-sexy leather ensemble and truncate it into booty shorts.
02:03Or maybe it's that Turner lazily swept her long, strawberry locks into a slicked-back bun
02:08rather than mimicking the original look's short, dark hair. Either way,
02:12this get-up just didn't inspire us to take the red pill.
02:15Gaming YouTuber ElsTheWitch has earned a big following, but she failed to impress
02:20this Halloween season. Els dressed as a basic devil for the Kiss Haunted House party on October
02:2430th, then doubled down on simplistic costumes by cosplaying as Blossom from The Powerpuff Girls
02:29on Halloween itself. Els looked cute but boring, seems like a witch could do much better.
02:35If we were ranking costume concepts, Anne Hathaway's Boo York City would be among our best.
02:40We don't even mind the poppy, homemade look. But the makeup is a cheap, party-city mess that
02:45demands one question — why? We don't know whether that's grease or cream Halloween makeup,
02:50but A-listers like Hathaway have access to the best makeup artists in the business.
02:54There's no reason to leave the house with this kind of sloppy get-up.
02:58"-Are you wearing the Chanel boots? Yeah, I am."
03:02We love that Nicole Scherzinger chose something a little gory and dark for her outing on Heidi
03:06Klum's Halloween party this year. That said, we can't help but knock the Pussycat Dolls alum for
03:11taking the easiest of easy roads. The look is beat for beat from her costume rack for the
03:15Broadway show Sunset Boulevard. It seems Scherzinger simply raided her professional
03:19wardrobe to appear as the musical's doomed antagonist, Norma Desmond. It feels like
03:24cheating. Some costumes just aren't made to be sexy. Take, for example, the Bachelor winner
03:29Kelsey Anderson's attempt at portraying Belle from Disney's Beauty and the Beast. Yes, Belle
03:34had a beautiful gown, which Anderson cropped into a fairly uninteresting, thigh-high-accented miniskirt.
03:39But Belle was also a deep thinker who wanted to be appreciated for her mind.
03:43"-Where are you off to? The bookshop. I just finished The Most Wonderful Story."
03:48Maybe that's why seeing a sexy Belle costume just feels wrong.
03:52Nobody wants to attend a high-profile party wearing the same outfit. Unfortunately,
03:56social media star Charli D'Amelio and YouTuber Monet McMichael both came to Heidi Klum's Halloween
04:01bash dressed as Natalie Portman's character from the 2010 film Black Swan. It's unclear why this
04:06costume was apparently so trendy, but the real death knell for this duo was that another set
04:10of guests outshone them both. Gymnast Suni Lee and her sister Cheyenne presented the best Black
04:16Swan look of the night.