Scary Movie Costume Designer Ariyela Wald-Cohain Shares her best costuming secrets

Costume designer Ariyela Wald-Cohain, who has worked on My Best Friend’s Exorcism, Insidious: Chapter 3, and Scary Movie, shares advice for creating horror Halloween costumes. She recommends identifying three or four key characteristics of a character to make it recognizable, considering comfort and practicality alongside iconic elements. For screen-accuracy, she suggests collecting visual references and examining details like texture, silhouette, and how clothing is worn. Understanding a character’s background and psychological state informs costume choices. For those without sewing experience, she advocates resourcefulness through thrifting, using duct tape, safety pins, and hot glue guns. Small details like hairstyle and accessories add personality and complexity. For Scary Movie, Wald-Cohain navigated legal restrictions requiring thirty percent changes from original costumes while maintaining recognizability, balancing iconic elements with a homemade aesthetic appropriate to the film’s subway and Halloween party scenes.

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