Paul Etheredge-Ouzts (director, Hellbent)

This year, I expect I'll dress up in a black tee shirt and jeans and call myself "Deep Space". Maybe if I say "Casting Director" I'll get more attention.

My fantasy is to go as a "Sexy Devil" (hmmm...this sounds familiar). Tight black pants, low on the hips...tattoo flames leaping up from my manscaped groin and over my six pack stomach (fantasy, remember)...no shirt...some classy horns....I almost did this costume a few years ago (when I did have the abs), but my father dropped into town - unannounced! - on Halloween day. I spent the evening entertaining him instead of the thousands of other single boys on the WeHo strip. Dad asked me what I was doing with all the tattoo makeup...."Oh...it's just for work, Dad...*sigh*"

And parents wonder why their kids resent them.

Armando Munoz (director, Pervula)

For Halloween I'm going to be one of my new babies. I'm going to be Crotchless Panty Face from PANTY KILL. I'll certainly have your shredded CampBlood manties hanging out of my pocket.

With unlimited resources I'd be Ms. Michael Myers. That's right. It's TRAN-OWEEN. "The Night He/She Came Home!

Randy Barbato (co-director, Party Monster, Inside Deep Throat)

The most successful "conceptual" Halloween costume we ever did was when Fenton and I went as the "Jersey shore" in the late eighties. It was around the time that hypodermics and medical waste were washing up on the beach. There was a news item Halloween week about a uterus being found on the shore. Yummy! So we covered ourselves in plastic and then glued garbage, sand, needles, and raw tripe - and BAM....Jersey shore (I think there was a beach ball or two as well.).

Of course, you couldn't tell what the hell we were, so it was all about explaining the costume - which was FUN! Those are the best costumes because you are forced to chat with people, and isn't that what Halloween is all about? Making new friends and seeing old ones....a treat and a trick!

Don Mancinci (creator, Child's Play)

I'm just going to throw on a pair of boxer briefs, and clamp a bear trap over my head, and go as the guy from the opening of SAW II -- that is, if it's warm. If not, I'll just wear an eighties wig and an eyepatch, and go as Dylan Fergus from Hellbent.

Dave DeCoteau (director, The Brotherhood, Voodoo Academy)

What are you going to be for Halloween?

A tired old used up queen. So I won't change my usual drag.

What WOULD you be for Halloween, if you could be anything you wanted?

Divine, of course!

Justin Kerswell (WebGod: Hysteria Lives!)
Well, actually we do celebrate Halloween in Merrie Olde England. It's my favourite holiday, perhaps unsurprisingly. I'm still trying to decide what to wear - although the usual question is what celluloid monstrosity will I force on my guests after I've drunk my own bodyweight in punch? It's the one time of the year I'm allowed to do this, as I got banned from doing it at all other festive times after showing all the best bits from To All a Good Night and Silent Night, Deadly Night to Grandma one year (again after too much sherry). The thing is, in the UK you wouldn't be caught dead going to a Halloween party dressed as a pirate or ballerina - I've never understood the American cavalier attitude to fright wear. A ballerina is hardly scary (unless she's carrying a machete, of course). My favourite Halloween costume wasn't actually my own, but I did orchestrate the chaos. Naturally, it involved alcohol and a screening of a Friday the 13th movie. A lesbian friend of my was so taken with the hockey mask idea she allowed me to gaffer tape a cycling helmet over her face. She stood outside the kitchen window holding a butcher's knife and popped into view every time someone came in for a refill of their punch. Simple, but stupidly effective!

My dream would be to dress up my two cats: one as Baby Jane Hudson (Pumpkin) and the other as Blanche (George Glass), from Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? I'd dress up as a giant rat and they could pull me down the street in a giant silver platter. Of course, this isn't entirely practical, as a giant silver platter would be a bitch to find.

Alan Rowe Kelly (director: I’ll Bury You Tomorrow)
I had two parties to attend last year - one in an actual pumpkin patch in Chester NJ. So I decided a mad Hare with mini- hatchet was appropriate! After about a dozen manhattans later, I dragged my furry tail over to the local Pathmark for their produce sale - when I got to the isle I had a very public fit about the poor condition of the carrots they were selling! Of course, I was asked to leave...escorted.

The next party took on a more surreal finish (More, you ask??) when I decided to go as Joan Crawford - Mildred Pierce era of course - as you can see by this 'Hurrell - esque' photo taken by Robert Norman (pre party). It's every fag's god damn dream to be Joan just once! I then proceeded to turn my poor dear friend Robert into Christina Crawford - with dire results! I promise you I did not look like this by the evening's end...

'WORK AND WORK TILL I'M HALF DEAD - AND I HEAR THEM SAY SHE'S GETTING OLD!!'

Stephen Saban (editrix: The WOW Report)

What are you dressing as for Halloween?

A senior.

Barring any limitations, what WOULD you dress as for Halloween?

A junior.

Amanda By Night (writer, Film Threat, Pretty Scary, CampBlood.org)

My original costume was a sort of "Geisha of Death" costume that involved a kimono and a really cheesy corset. Since the robe is obviously not 'one size fits all' (Lesson: Never buy cheap costumes online unless your intention is to look like an idiot), I had to scrap that. I will be going as a Hammer Vampire Movie Victim (ala Ingrid Pitt, except with an unfortunately much smaller bust), which means I'll be in a sexy nightgown, flowing robe and will sport a the requisite bite marks on the neck. I'm REALLY looking forward to the big hair! Hopefully that will make up for the extra small chest! :) This was actually Heidi Martinuzzi's idea, but like any good girlfriend, I stole it right from under her feet!

What do I want to go as? Hmmm, that's a hard one. I'm kind of kicking myself for not thinking about the Laura Mars thing until I saw your article (that would have been too fab - but the eyebrow pluck would probably be a pain). I think the dream character I've always wanted to as would be the Goddess Shitar from Blood Diner. Sure, nobody knows who the hell that is, but I would be proud to entrance newbies with my maneating chest!

Jason Paul Collum (Director: October Moon)

If I'm feeling creative and energetic, I might be a Fruitcake with a sign over my crotch that reads "Eat me!" If I'm lazy and lethargic I'll put on my old Tippi Hedren outfit complete with birds in my hair and white poop going down my back. I made the costume 10 years ago, and wore it to death, but it's been sitting in a box for the last 3 years and I'll be going out in a place I've never been before, so it'll be new to them...Plus, since I'll be hanging with the breeders for the night, they probably won't get the Fruitcake reference.

If I could be anything for Halloween, without having to worry about my fat gut and broke wallet, I'd be some kind of demonic ice queen (ed: Anna Wintour?). I have it all visualized in my head, but know I have neither the body nor the cash to spend on a one-night only costume. Or I'd be Jesse Metcalf's love slave....

Joe Sullivan (Director: Dead Serious)

Maybe my Halloween wish is to dress up like Felissa Rose and make scary horror movies that are directed by moi, only no one knows that we're actually the same person because I keep changing in and out of drag and kill anyone who finds out, until Vera Miles stumbles on the truth and I have to kill her, just like I killed her sister, but her boyfriend shows up...

Rich Juzwiak (Awesome Blogger: FourFour)

Ah, yes, Halloween. The time of year that everyone tells me, both separately and in groups, how un-fun I am. Chances are, Buzz, that I will not be dressing up for Halloween. I just don't do it. I don't begrudge others for doing it, but it's just not my thang. HOWEVER, if I could/cared to, I'd totally be the pre-hockey-mask Jason from Friday the 13th Pt. 2, with one eye cut out of a sack on my head. Just cuz I'm stocky like that and I like a good, semi-obscure reference.

Scott Telek (Creator: Cinema De Merde)

Tragically, I will probably not dress up for Halloween. The child in me has died long ago. The last time I dressed up was as Dead Laura Palmer. I was blue and was, of course, wrapped in plastic, and had an 'R' on my fingernail. Very few people got what I was supposed to be, but the ones that did would scream "Laura!" from across the room.

Tim Wolf (Head of Technology: World of Wonder)

What are you dressing as for Halloween?

Nothing.

Barring any limitations, what WOULD you dress as for Halloween?

Madonna.