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# See How Celebrities Dressed For Halloween This Year

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by 

[Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/)


## Mahita Gajanan


Gajanan is an editor at TIME.

Updated: Dec 15, 2023 1:21 AM UTCPublished: Oct 30, 2016 5:07 PM UTC

by 

[Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/)


## Mahita Gajanan


Gajanan is an editor at TIME.

Updated: Dec 15, 2023 1:21 AM UTCPublished: Oct 30, 2016 5:07 PM UTC

Stars enjoy Halloween as much as everyone else, and this year, celebrities dressed to the nines to celebrate the holiday.

From takes on Eleven from _Stranger Things_ to the Super Mario Brothers, check out the costumes celebrities wore for Halloween 2016.

Steve Harvey staged a _Coming to America_ reunion and dressed up as King Jaffe Joffer. He even posed with two of the movie’s stars, Shari Headley and Vanessa Bell Calloway, who dressed as their characters.

> [](https://twitter.com/ScottHuego/status/792065811171184640)

Amy Schumer and boyfriend Ben Hanish dressed as _Stranger Things_‘s Dustin and Eleven.

Bette Midler threw it back by going as her own character, Winifred Sanderson, from Halloween favorite _Hocus Pocus_.


Katy Perry got a political makeover and went as Hillary Clinton, while Orlando Bloom donned an orange wig to emulate Donald Trump. A friend dressed as Bill Clinton accompanied the singer.

Martha Stewart transformed into a bloody, terrifying “Nurse Martha,” complete with red eyes.

Mariah Carey, Nick Cannon and their children dressed as a family, with Carey in a devil costume, Cannon and son as Super Mario Brothers and their daughter in a princess costume.


Scott Eastwood paid homage to his father, Clint Eastwood, by dressing as his character in _The Good, The Bad and The Ugly_.

> [](https://twitter.com/MazdaNewRochell/status/789925570691858432)

Kylie Jenner dressed up as Christina Aguilera.


_Room_ star Jacob Tremblay went to his school Halloween dance as Marty McFly from _Back to the Future_. “Only the adults knew who I was,” he wrote on Instagram.

Beyoncé, Blue Ivy and Tina Lawson had an imitable group costume, dressing as the trio Salt-N-Pepa.

In a bit of costume-inception, Mindy Kaling pulled off her best Tom Hanks as Sully Sullenberger III from his role in the recent film [_Sully_](http://time.com/4486817/weekend-box-office-sully-first/).


Jenna Dewan Tatum shone in a unicorn costume that included shimmering makeup, sequins, a sparkly horn and rainbow hair.

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