Our Guide to Cheap Halloween Costumes

Sometimes when you’re browsing Halloween costumes, the price tag can be scarier than the costume! Which is why we at the Warehouse have put together some costume ideas that drain the colour from your friends’ faces and not drain your bank account.

These Halloween costume ideas are cheap and easy to put together, needing only a few items to come together to create a truly frightening costume that will keep the screams coming.

Normally Halloween is a prime time at The Scarehouse so its super simple to dive in and pickup some of the best Halloween Costumes in NZ right now, all as part of The Warehouse’ wicked Halloween range. We have put together some of our favourite cheap Halloween costumes based on a couple of themes, that are sure to give you a frighteningly easy to assemble Halloween costume.

Cheap Vampire Costume

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Total price: $5.95 – $7.95

Embody a blood-sucking creature of the night with our cheap vampire costume idea! All you need to make it work is a pair of vampire teeth and a dark cape. Paired with dark clothing, you’ll be the terror of the party!

If you really want to take it up a notch, you can spray Fake Blood on your cloak and clothes to show that you’ve recently feasted on an unsuspecting victim!

Cheap Zombie Costume

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Total price: $4.50 - $6.50

Halloween is the night where the dead walk the earth! Take the role of one of these shambling terrors this Halloween with just a handful of items: some face paint to paint yourself a ghoulish grey with sunken eyes, wound tattoos to complete the decomposition look, and some Fake Blood if you want to look especially grisly.

You can also wear ripped-up old clothing to really look like you’ve crawled out of a grave in search of brains to feast on!

Cheap Ghost Costume

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Total price: $0.80 - $13.60

Haunt your friends as a ghoulish ghost with our simple ghost costume. You only need two pieces to put this frightful costume together: a ghost mask and dark clothing. You can either use dark clothing or a sheet you have around the house, or you can pick up a ghoulish black robe to complete the look and take on the form of a restless spirit.

You can pick up a plastic knife to transform the costume from a ghost costume into a Scream costume, embodying the creepy killer from the movies!

Cheap Devil Costume

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Total price: $5.50 – $9.95

Turn up the devilish charm with this delightfully evil devil costume. Paint yourself red with face paint, stick some horns on your head, and don a fashionably evil cape to embody a frightening demon that will leave everyone quaking in their boots. You go, you handsome devil.

Cheap Clown Costume

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Total price: $2.50

This costume is simple but effective, paint yourself like a clown! Depending on who you ask, clowns can be charming or creepy (ok, mostly creepy) and are definitely not out of place on Halloween. The added benefit of this costume is you can paint yourself up in any style you want; you can be quirky or creepy with your clown make up!

If you want to turn up the creep factor, make yourself an evil killer clown with a plastic chain saw, an inflatable bloody bat, or even a menacing sickle. You’ll have your friends screaming and running for the hills!