#vampira
Make-Up Monsters and Creature Costumes
(Marcia Lynn Cox, Tempo Books 1976)
If you’ve been around on my blog for a minute, you’ve probably seen my cosplay/horror history series, A Century of Glamour Ghouls. That October, I threw together ten cosplays accompanied by tutorials and short histories of horror filmmaking over the 20th century.
Forthe 1950s entry, I covered Vampira in Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) and the intersection of sci-fi and horror. Alas, my hair was short back then and I own(ed) no wigs, so I paired my Vampira look with a generic 1950s hairstyle. Now that my hair is Too Long, and the season of the witch is upon us, it seemed like the right time to revive the horrifying horror hostess.
If you need a last minute costume idea for this weekend, here are ten easy-to-construct looks from 100 years of horror film history!
Happy Halloween, my ghouls!
All Glamour Ghouls Posts:
The 1910s|The 1920s|The 1930s|The 1940s|The 1950s|The 1960s|The 1970s|The 1980s|The 1990s|The 2000s
What’s your favorite type of vampire?
Illustration is done with red and black ink pens.
ALTERNATIVE WOMEN IN FILM