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10 Lesser-Known Horror Villains to Dress Up as at Halloween

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Pazuzu ('The Exorcist')
Eileen Dietz as Pazuzu in 'The Exorcist'.

Eileen Dietz as Pazuzu in 'The Exorcist'.

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Your Back Story: You are an Assyrian/Babylonian wind demon who brings famines and plagues of locusts. When a statue devoted to you is uncovered by an American priest named Merrin, you end up possessing a 12-year-old girl in Merrin's stomping ground, Washington, DC, making her do all kinds of nasty stuff.

What You Need for a Costume:

  • Powdered white face
  • Black makeup accentuating the eyes, cheekbones and lips
  • Red bags under the eyes
  • Pointy fake teeth

How to Act*: Speak in a raspy voice; think Eileen Brennan, but more evil. Put on extreme airs, looking down your nose at people and insulting their significance as living entities. Use more profanity than is called for in polite company, making disparaging comments about the morality of someone's mother whenever possible. "Possess" people by standing behind them and moving their arms and mouths like a ventriloquist's dummy.

*For entertainment purposes. Use common sense, people.

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