Zombie Costumes


Zombie costumes are some of the most popular and easy to either make yourself or otherwise there’s an incredible range of cool zombie costumes you can buy! Whatever you choose to do, please make sure you get all your friends together and walk into a bar or takeaway in your costumes! It will be a priceless moment, also make sure you take lots of photos as you’ll want to remember this!

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Zombie Costume Ideas

The thing with zombies is that you never know when one’s going to attack you! It could happen at any time! All it takes is one bite and you’ll soon change into one yourself. So keep this very important fact in mind when choosing your zombie costume!

We spend most of our days at work in our uniforms so why is it that most zombies are always in civvy clothes? It makes no sense. And what about the poor people who’re attacked by zombies while on the toilet? Why do you never see a zombie with his pants round his ankles? Here are some zombie costume ideas to seriously consider to add the extra humor element:

1. Toilet zombie – This zombie was attacked while emptying his bowels! The poor guy never stood a chance!

2. Sleepy zombie – Why are there never any zombie who’re attacked while asleep? It makes no sense!

3. Doctor zombie – Think about it for a minute! If somebody gets bitten by a zombie then before they die and change into one, the first place they’re going to go is the hospital. Why are there no zombies in white coats with stethoscopes round their necks?

4. Police zombie – If there’s an apparent drunken man or several of them knocking and scraping on your front door trying to get in your house, the first people you’re going to call is the police! But you never get police zombie! It makes no sense to me!

5. Maintenance man zombie – If you’ve ever seen a zombie film it’s always either grocery store employees or maintenance men who get it first!

6. Priest zombie – Where’s the first place you head for refuge? It’s the church of course! However try telling 30 zombies they’re not allowed in!

7. Nurse zombie – For the ladies for the same reason as the doctor zombie!

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Homemade Zombie Costumes

For those of you who’re just biting to make your own costumes at home then below is the advice for you! There’s so much you can do for your zombie costumes as the above advice should hopefully have enlightened you. Please pick and choose from the following ideas, the more effort you make the better you’ll look!

1. You can and really should keep your zombie clothes in the trash overnight to add some stink to them, or better yet you could bury them in the garden. After all, a large proportion of zombies do indeed scratch their way out from the ground.

2. Which is why many zombies have red fingers from scratching out through their coffins, this process can take many months to accomplish which explains why they’re always so hungry. So why not dip the tips of your fingers in red food dye?

3. Any clothes you wear should have rips and tears in them. This is fairly obvious. You should also use your red food dye to strategically place blood on any white shirts you’re wearing. A quick and unrelated fact about red food dye and one you could tell your mates at the party. Where does red food dye come from? The answer is of course crushed Beatles! If you don’t believe me then look it up!

4. You need to try and make your skin look horrible! Get some mashed potato and dye it a green or grey color! Mash it up real good! Then paste it onto your face! Let it set, this usually takes about ten minutes. Then peel it off! You’ll now have a flaky appearance to your skin, not to mention you’ll now smell like a zombie. Any green/grey zombie makeup you use should be put on over this! Don’t forget to use the potato on any exposed skin too!

5. Once you’re all dressed up you should have a quick nap before heading out! When you wake you’ll feel like crap and probably look even more crap! Your hair will be ruffled and your voice won’t make much sense! Now’s the time to go to the party! Remember that this is the one party occasion where the whole idea is to look as bad as possible!

6. If you’d like to enforce a limp to make you walk more like a zombie without even having to try then you should place padding in just one of your shoes.

7. Wear some of your Father’s aftershave! This stuff usually stinks to high heaven!

The above zombie costume ideas can be modified as you see fit. Zombie costumes for men as well as zombie costumes for women can also be purchased for a range of budgets so if you can’t be bothered making a homemade zombie costume then you should buy one. The link at the top of this page is the best place to go.

Please leave a comment below if you have any other zombie costume ideas and share them with everybody else!

What’s more, you should also see these zombie party ideas especially if you’re throwing the party yourself! If you’re dressing as a zombie as part of Halloween then these halloween party ideas should also give you some great inspiration!

Zombie Party


Zombie parties are becoming extremely popular as costumes are very easy to make. There’s nothing funnier than having a building full of zombies and then venturing out to town to scare the local populace!

A zombie party is the one social occasion where the idea is to turn up looking your worst! In fact its advised that you throw your zombie party while hung over and having gone several days without washing.

Take a look at the following zombie party ideas and for heavens sake…try and keep your head on!

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Zombie Parties Bring The Worst Out In People

Zombie Party Invitations

Don’t neglect your invitations. If you send them out on print outs of something zombie related then all your guests will know you’re serious about putting on one heck of a show.

Look online for pictures of the following and print them off perhaps with a speech bubble if applicable:

1. A Zombie (of course)
2. Brains
3. A Tombstone

If your invitation is of a zombie then in the speech bubble you could write telling them to bring their brains.

Make sure you also create a zombie Facebook group. You can use it to hype up your party as the day approaches. Put up photos of zombies and perhaps a few tips (which you’ll find here) on how to make costumes. Also, once your zombie party has finished you’ll be able to upload all your images and video to the Facebook group, tagging all your friends and you’ll have a great place to go for your memories.

Zombie Party Costumes

Zombie costumes are fun and easy to make. You can however bypass this whole process and buy one of your very own professionally made Zombie Party Costumes. They come in all guises as you never know when a zombie is going to attack you whether you’re delivering the mail, treating the sick in hospital or lying in bed asleep.

If you’re making your own zombie costume then pick and choose from the following to suit your own tastes:

1. Cover yourself in grey make up. Go heavier under the eyes!

2. Go over parts of the grey in green and other parts in red.

3. Achieve the crusty look by mashing potato, dying it green and plastering your skin with it. Leave it on for ten minutes, enough for it to set and when you take it off you’ll have an awesome green flaky skin look.

4. Choose your oldest and worst clothes as they’re gonna get messed up! The day before your party bury your shirt overnight to get the smell of a corpse on it. It’ll also look filthy and you’ll have an awesome story about how some anonymous guy on the internet told you to bury your shirt.

5. Put rips in your shirt, pants and jacket etc. If you can make it so there’s strips hanging off then this’ll look really cool. You could chop one leg off your pants if your wanted or a hole in the knee and put your foot through the hole.

6. Have a nap before setting out so you look dishevelled and your hair is all messed up. Otherwise style just one side of your hair in a wayward fashion.

7. Where there’s holes in your shirt you could create more flaky skin with the left over potato or use red food dye for blood. Use the dye of course to blood your clothes, face and hands.

8. If you wear odd shoes then you’ll probably have an awesome limp enforced upon you, no need to act it out.

9. Use your Fathers aftershave to give yourself that awful smell of the undead.

Some Zombies Have A Bad Gait!

Zombie Party Decorations And Ideas

As with any theme party it’s your decorations that will really set it apart by making it truly authentic. The below list is by no means complete, merely just a few ideas to inspire you. Pick and choose as you see fit:

1. You can get ready made tombstones from Amazon, put it in your garden to scare your guests as they turn up. You can be extra funny and write the name of one of your guests on the tombstone.

2. Get a Zombie Cutout or two, again these are available online for only a few dollars! Prop it up by your front door to welcome everybody! You could also use them as door covers or to dangle down from doorways to scare people as they walk into dark rooms.

3. You can also use a Hanging Zombie to scare your guests. Hang it up from a door inside your house so that when the door is opened the hanging zombie is there right in their face! This is similar to the idea above, however you can actually get zombies that were made for hanging from doors.

4. If you have dimmers in your house then have them on low settings. You could also substitute the light bulbs for green or red ones.

5. An alternative to the above would be to light the room by candle light.

6. Play the classic movie Night of the Living Dead on a loop on the TV. There are two versions of this amazing film. I personally find the older black and white version better.

7. In the toilets, where your guests are alone and vulnerable; play background music by means of a small CD player. Do you have any scary tunes? Look online for the Resident Evil soundtrack or anything by Marilyn Manson. You can also look at our list of zombie party music below for more song ideas.

8. Get a Fog Machine to create a scary fog to terrify everybody. This would be best stationed at the entrances. You can take photos of your guests as they make their zombie entrance through the fog. You can of course buy fog machines from Amazon but they are a little pricey. Renting may be a better idea for you.

9. Have a sign by the buffet table saying “Fresh Flesh” or “Brains!!!”

Zombie Party Games

1. Play Zombies! OK so i’m making this up as i go along but you remember the game tag at school where one person is on and when that person tags somebody then that person is also on. Eventually there’ll be more people on or Zombies than humans until there’s just one survivor left (the winner). The only rules are that the Zombies have to walk like Zombies (slowly) and be blindfolded! Trust me, this is gonna be one creepy game!

2. Have a “Best Zombie Walk” contest! The winning video goes on Youtube!

3. This one is not really a game but how about having a “Best Zombie Costume” contest! Let everyone on Facebook know you’re doing this to encourage everyone to make an effort.

Zombie Party Music

Zombies Love Brains!

Zombie Party Music

1. Micheal Jackson – Thriller

2. Danny Elfman – Psycho

3. Mark Ayers – The Shining

4. Matt Fink – Candyman

5. Richard Band – Puppet Master

6. Nine Inch Nails – Dead Souls

7. Rob Zombie – House of 1000 Corpses

8. The Ramones – Pet Sematary

9. Iron Maiden – Fear of the Dark

10. Marilyn Manson – Sweat Dreams

11. Marilyn Manson – This is Halloween

12. Metallica – Enter Sandman

13. Stevie Wonder – Superstition

14. Talking Heads – Psycho Killer

15. The Cranberries – Zombie

16. The Doors – People Are Strange

17. Warren Zevon – Werewolves of London

Or you can get this Zombie Party Music which is easily transferable from Halloween.

Zombie Party Food

Braaaiiiiiins!!! Ha ha just kidding!

1. Haggis – Cut it open and have it on a plate. Looks just like brains!!! Tastes even worse!

2. Buffet of cold meats – Parma ham, cotto ham, smoked fish, roast beef etc.

3. For desert it’s got to be jello! Just have bowls of the stuff in different colors.

4. Order take out and eat the delivery boy! See the look on his face when he arrives!

Best of luck organizing and throwing your zombie theme party. You’ll have a lot to prepare for and you’ll want to be ready for that moment when all your guests all turn up at precisely the same time! The best advice i can give you is to be prepared and try to get a mate or two to help out with the planning.

Why not leave a comment below with your ideas, tips or any questions for zombie parties!