The Cutest and Cringiest Halloween Costumes This Year

Halloween is the BEST holiday of the year. The whole Halloween season is full of spooky frights and oversized sweaters, scented candles and eating candy, and of course, Halloween costumes. It doesn't matter your age! Whether you're staying home passing out candy, watching scary movies, trick or treating, or going to a party, there is a fire costume for you 🔥 Writer Stephen Johnson from Lifehacker says that these will be the hottest and best selling costumes this year, and I'll let you know which are CUTE and which are CRINGE.

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• Stranger Things - CUTE! The show itself is very unique and the 80s vibes lend very nicely to the 80s and 90s fashion trends we're seeing today. You can get super creative with these costumes as well!
• Elvis and Priscilla - CUTE! Execute this well and you'll be the BEST couple's costume at whatever party you go to. You can also take some really good Insta worthy pics.
• Patrick Bateman - CRINGE. While Christian Bale himself is very hot, serial killers are very not. You'll notice that this is the only "Horror" costume on the list which points to how "over" this genre we are for this year.
• Top Gun - CRINGE. I know everyone was all about the new Top Gun but honestly I don't understand why. There is no plot to the original movie, the new one had the most boring sex scene - allegedly, I didn't actually see it because Tom Cruise but I did see the complaints about the scene EVERYWHERE, and Scientology is a cult so it's a no for me.
• Anna Delvey - CUTE! Is Anna Delvey highkey the worst? Yes. Is she also low-key kind of iconic? Also Yes. She did steal from working class people which is not okay, but she also stole from banks and rich people and scamming capitalism is always hot.
• Harley Quinn - CRINGE. If you choose this costume I can guarantee that you've posted "just touch my butt and buy me pizza" on your dating profile. It's giving, "I'm not like other girls I like to hang with the guys." This is low tier emo and as a high tier elder emo I will not STAND for it.
• Avril Lavigne - CUTE! We will forever stan the pop-punk princess. She's just out here dying her hair, wearing converse, making music, and minding her business and we love that for her.
• Dani from Hocus Pocus - CUTE! Any Hocus Pocus costume is going to be cute. It's a Halloween classic perfect for group costumes with the squad.
• Maddie and Cassie from Euphoria - CUTE! There's a lot of inspiration you can use from these characters to get creative and make some really unique and cute looks. Your outfits are going to be so fun and you can get really creative with your makeup! Again another great group costume.
• Lord of the Rings Costumes - CUTE! Let's be honest this movie is just FILLED with hotties. Legolas, Aragorn, Galadriel, Frodo, I could go on, AND I WILL. Arwen, Faramir, Pippin, Thranduil, Tauriel, Bard, Eomer, Thorin, Kili. The hotness just won't stop.

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• Inflatable T Rex - CRINGE. They were cute and funny like 10 years ago, but can we all agree that their time is over?
• Wonder Woman 1984 - CUTE! Is it a bit basic? Sure. But Wonder Woman is an OG bad*ss b**ch with a lasso and stylish bracelets that repel bullets and that is very hot.
• Buddy The Elf - I actually HATE this movie. While I like Will Ferrell as a person and comedian, his acting is just grating to me. In every single movie he's the same person - Will Ferrell. Anchorman is perhaps the exception to this, but even then he's just so Will Ferrell in it. So I can't really say whether this is CUTE or CRINGE because I have such a strong disdain for the movie and character.
• The Dark Night Batman - CUTE! Again, a bit basic, but he's an OG emo so we MUST stan.
• Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz - CRINGE. If you want to be a Dorothy, be Dorothy Zbornak from The Golden Girls. Why put on the played out red kitten heels and pigtails with ribbons when you could put on the padded shoulders of an ICON???
• Captain Marvel - CRINGE. Just be Wonder Woman.
• Rey from The Force Awakens - CUTE! The outfit is going to be super cute and who doesn't love a lightsaber? She's also incredibly fierce and snarky so you'll have a super fun time in character.
• Harley Quinn - CRINGE. The fact that this is on the best selling list, VOM. I am so disappointed in so many of you.
• Ride a Beer Buddy - CRINGE. This is your white dad's go to costume. It's EMBARRASSING. And not even in a normal 'parents are embarrassing' way in a 'please don't invite Jeff to the party he makes everyone uncomfortable' way.
• Elvis - Elvis and Priscilla as a couples costume? CUTE! Elvis as a solo costume? CRINGE. Solo Elvis needs to stay in a Vegas Wedding Chapel where he belongs.