Throughout the past three decades, Halloween night has presented a wide variety of unique costumes that often correlated to Hollywood releases. Although kids have always returned to their favorite princesses and movie characters, Hollywood movies have greatly influenced memorable Halloween trends over the years.

•   In 1938, Carrie Fisher captured everyone’s attention when she played the role of Princess Leia in the movie, Star Wars Episode V1: Return of the Jedi. This famous Hollywood release inspired loads of Halloween costumes for children and adults.
•   The year 1984 presented the horror film, A Nightmare on Elm Street. This major motion picture inspired terrifying costumes for all ages, such as the infamous Freddy Krueger costume.
•     The early nineties inspired kids to kick butt and dress like their favorite superheroes and movie characters, such as Superman and Batman.
•   Star Wars struck again in 1999 when Natalie Portman played the role of young Queen Amidala in Episode One: The Phantom Menace, and, yet again, Star Wars inspired Halloween costumes such as Anakin and Han Solo.
•   In 2003, Jack Sparrow made his debut in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and this prompted kids to dress as their new favorite pirate.
•   Lady Gaga inspired some unique costumes when, in 2009, she first presented extreme fashion choices in her music video and red carpet walks for her song “Monster”. These wild costumes helped to channel Gaga’s fans’ “inner monsters”.

  Although for the past three decades many Hollywood releases have inspired Halloween costumes, Disney has reigned in the costume world ever since their first movie release, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, in 1937.