I was scrolling through some of the costumes on our site and I began to realize that the key influential factor of the most popular Halloween costumes is movies. I am sure we have all realized this at some point but it just occurred to me how manipulating film exposure really is to our society. Let’s take Spiderman for example. Before the film version of the Spiderman comic came out, the actual costumes of Spiderman were pretty scarce. This past Halloween, since the movie has been released for 5 years, we sell approximately 30 different types of Spiderman costumes; the Spiderman Adult Costume, Deluxe Spiderman Child, and the Spiderman Deluxe Muscle Teen/Adult are just some of them. As Spiderman 3 came out, we became even more equipped with the Black Suited Spiderman Deluxe Teen/Adult, Black-Suited Spiderman Child, and the Venom Muscle Teen/Adult. It is very interesting to think why we want to take on the persona of these characters. Is it that we want to see what it’s like to be behind the Spiderman mask or do we just want to represent the movie that put us on the edge of our seats?

Another very, very influential blockbuster this year was the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy. If I think back to all the Halloween parades and trick-or-treating I used to be involved with when I was a child, I do remember a good amount of pirate costumes. But when this movie came out in 2003, thousands of people feel in love with the specific unique characters (especially the dashing Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow). Costume Kingdom quickly responded to people’s costume wish list for Pirates of the Caribbean costumes with the Captain Jack Sparrow Prestige Adult, Elizabeth Pirate Deluxe Adult, Davey Jones Deluxe Latex Mask Adult and even more detailed-oriented with the  Captain Jack Sparrow Accessory Kit. It even inspired the trend to have numerous different styles of pirate costumes like the 5 PC Sexy Pirate Captain, Deluxe Pirate Ghost Adult, and the Pirate Eye Patch with Heart. We offer over 200 pirate related costumes in our store alone!

To me, it completely makes sense why people want to wear these costumes that our favorite movies present. We may feel like we are actually that character from the film and experience what it would be like to play that role. We also may just want to look as devenir or cunning as the film itself made that character appear to us. The reasoning behind people dressing as their favorite movie roles is not a specific one, but it definitely shows us how subconsciously we empathize and personally connect with these characters. An extraordinarily well job done by the film crew!