14 behind-the-scenes facts about costumes from cult horror films (25 photos)

Costume designers share their secrets and subtleties professions. Here are some interesting facts related to clothing famous horror characters.





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Nadine Haders, costume designer for Get Out (2017) told how she "played" with color palettes in order to show different periods of life of the characters. For example, the main character, Chris, wears blue when away from his home in Brooklyn because blue is "the color of his city life, his true self." And as long as he stays at his girlfriend's parents' house, he is wearing gray pajamas because this color "exists in the world between black and white".



Meanwhile, the party guests that Chris encounters are in mostly dressed in black and white, which Haders said was "obvious a nod to the racial tensions in the film." She also added some red in their outfits, as it is the "symbol of secret societies." For example, Rose's father wears a red pocket square.

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Jordan Peele, director of the horror films "Get Out", "Us" and "No", said interesting fact: when he decided that the young Jason Wilson in the movie "Us" should be wearing a T-shirt with a poster from "Jaws", he personally asked Steven Spielberg has permission to do so.



Spielberg approved and received an acknowledgment in the credits.

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The creative team working on the painting "Silence of the Lambs" went over a range of mask options for Hannibal Lecter. Some of them resembled the protective masks used by swordsmen.



The chosen option of the fiberglass mask had to be painted, but in costume designers eventually abandoned this as the unpainted mask had the appearance of leather, which was perfect for Lecter.

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Bill Skarsgard in an interview said that at some point he was ordered to appear for a re-audition for the role of Pennywise in movie "It" in his own clown make-up. He bought cosmetics shop for Halloween, which is quite appropriate.



Skarsgård described the experience this way: “Either you cringe in awkwardness and humiliation, or really get used to the proposed role and use all this absurdity to your advantage. It's so almost metaphorical thing when an actor in Los Angeles rides in the form of a clown on Hollywood Boulevard for an audition that might not will pass." And for the record, real Pennywise makeup for filming was applied two and a half hours.

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Suspiria (2018) costume designer Giulia Piersanti revealed that to create costumes from ropes, she referred to "binding techniques" and bought "meters and meters of red rope in sex shops."

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According to costume designer Laura Montgomery, Chris Rock, star movie "Saw: Spiral", wanted his costume to look really cheap and worn out. Rock told her, "I don't want to look good. me twice received an Oscar, everyone knows what Chris Rock looks like in a beautiful suit. It can't be a good costume."



In addition, Rock noted that policemen like his character can usually only afford ready-made suits, because they don't earn that much.

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Costume designer Rosanna Norton talks about her work for the stage prom in Carrie (1976). Turns out she took the outfits from a bridal shop that was closing.



“You used to be able to rent prom dresses, bridesmaid dresses brides and even wedding dresses, and we found this store in the Valley, which was closing. They had tuxedos and dresses and we were able to pick up exactly the pairs of outfits that we needed, ”explained Roseanne Norton. Carrie's dress was personally designed by Norton. It should have look attractive but simple to give the impression that Carrie could sew it herself.

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To create colonial costumes for The Witch, designer Linda Muir used 35 reference books shared with her by director Robert Eggers, photographs of historical fashion exhibitions in museums such as the Museum Victoria and Albert, and conversations with experts on the historical dress of that period.

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Scream costume designer Cynthia Bergstrom admitted that she borrowed the colors for the costumes of the heroes from the famous paintings by Edvard Munch "The Scream".



And it looks quite logical.

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Solstice (Midsommar, 2019) Costume Designer Andrea Flesch said that the skillfully embroidered outfits of the sect members were made by her from linen fabric centuries ago.



According to her, the clothes had to look like these people themselves they sew it for themselves, and everyone has their own suit, so they all look differently. Some are more skillfully done, some less skillfully, to see the difference.

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The Blair Witch Project actors just wore their own clothes during shooting time, which is enough for a film with extremely limited with a budget of $60,000.



Actor Michael Williams revealed that his co-star Heather Donahue helped him mend his jeans, which were repeatedly torn during filming.

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Minor spoiler for Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin... there's a family there that everyone thinks is Amish, but they're not exactly Amish. Costume designer Whitney Ann Adams reveals what's in the costumes characters have some hints of this.



"They strive for as much authenticity as possible, but when they are on their farm, they might let their guard down a bit. And do what out of the Amish tradition… For example, wearing vests that the Amish usually worn only for church services or for ceremonial purposes. Adams explained. In addition, men's suits were made of cotton, which is unusual in true Amish communities as cotton is harder wash and take care of it.

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Alex Bowerd, who designed the costumes for No, said that their creative team considered wilder versions of the flamboyant costume for "loser actor" Jupe, played by Steven Yeun. One (to unfortunately rejected) was a pink suit with leather fringe.

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And finally, The Invisible Man production designer Alex Holmes and director Leigh Whannell brought in scientists from New Southern University Wales in Australia where the movie was filmed to make as much as possible a real fantasy invisibility suit Adrian.