--- title: College Student Wins Halloween With Bodysuit Costume Prank description: This college student wins the internet — and Halloween — with a video of her scary costume prank that's going viral. canonical: https://time.com/5439710/halloween-costume-prank-2018/ author: Rachel E. 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Greenspan](https://time.com/author/rachel-e-greenspan/) ## Rachel E. Greenspan Oct 30, 2018 10:07 PM UTC Sometimes, the [creativity](http://time.com/5432535/white-house-halloween-2018/) of one woman is enough to shock even the most Twitter-savvy. And [Halloween](http://time.com/5419985/beyonce-halloween-costume-2018/) is that time. Makayla Rose Martinez, a freshman at York College of Nebraska, has set the stakes pretty high with her scary bodysuit costume prank. “Best $40 I ever spent,” she captioned the compilation video, which showed Martinez scaring various students. Be warned: the costume is certainly not for the faint of heart. > [](https://twitter.com/makaylarose%5F%5F%5F/status/1055608230636933120) Martinez is seen scaring different students while wearing the skeletal bodysuit — mostly by doing nothing but appearing in the costume, but other times by fully playing the character of this spooky skeleton, moving with an often-hysterical gait. The college student tells TIME she ordered the costume after she saw another viral video of it online. “Once \[I ordered the costume\] I wasn’t even planning on making a video, but the footage my friend captured was too funny to not post,” Martinez says. Her video of the prank soon became an internet sensation, naturally, garnering more than 175,000 likes and over 60,000 retweets. Martinez tweeted that she purchased the bodysuit online from The Spirit Store. So, if you, too, want to scare your peers this Halloween season, you’re in luck. Here are some of the best responses to Martinez’s prank from Halloween lovers far and wide. > [](https://twitter.com/judy%5Fngoc/status/1056060569642446848) > [](https://twitter.com/TaylorFraser%5F/status/1056061179452248064) > [](https://twitter.com/MayyJune/status/1056056386096893952) > [](https://twitter.com/QuinnAleisha/status/1056057358604996608) > [](https://twitter.com/baj12a/status/1056050799766323200) > [](https://twitter.com/playgirldom/status/1056055451220168705) > [](https://twitter.com/%5F%5Fmilani/status/1056042965523722240) ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] Scary movie season is in full swing, and the hotly contested cinematic genre and surprising both audiences and box offices alike. Well US horror films are often criticized for their reliance on remakes and endless sequels. 2017's reboot of IT based on Steven King's novel centered around a child- killing clown earned 327. 48 million dollars, making it the highest grossing R rated movie today. Meanwhile, actor- comedian Jordan Peele's directorial debut of the psychological thriller Get Out broke barriers at the Oscars. The 2017 film was the first horror movie to be nominated for Best Picture since the 1992 cannibalistic classic The Silence of the Lambs. Even Alfred Hitchcock couldn't pierce that category, thanks to the Academy's longstanding aversion to the genre. While 2017 was historically a great year for horror films, did it usher a new golden age of scares at the movies? This year has offered a continued trend of sophisticated thrillers, versus the gratuitous gore Of the 2000s. John Krasinski's A Quiet Place was a spring surprise at the box office. And Toni Colette's searing performance in Hereditary was arguably one of the most terrifying depictions of a mother in cinematic history. Even horror franchises have dominated this year's box office, and from a scream queen, Jamie Lee Curtis won big reprising her role in the Halloween franchise, breaking boundaries along the way. So in a crowded space of blockbusters, sci- fi thrillers, and mind- bending mysteries, what are the year's best horror movies? Here to share her favorites is Time writer Megan McCluskey. All right Meghan, so horror movies have been doing really well at the box office. So what's got everyone hooked again? Right, I think there is just a new refreshing take on the genre that has people really excited to get out and go to the movies again. What are your top picks for 2018? So I have to start with Hereditary because it has one of the most disturbing scenes on a horror movie that I'd ever seen personally. And then Netflix had a movie earlier this year called The Ritual That sort of in the Blair Witch vein does a really good job of capturing that oppressive sense of dread of being lost in the woods. And also is a rare one where the big monster reveal isn't a disappointing one. And then of course, last but. But not least, is a Quiet Place and which she has almost kickstarted this trend of horror movies based on sensory deprivation. Netflix has a new movie coming out later this year called Bird Box that is a quiet place, but with sight instead of sound. Okay, so a lot of great picks to choose from. It seems every decade there is a certain type of movie horror that people gravitate towards. So, what are we seeing now? Right, so horror movies often speak to cultural anxieties at the time, I think. So it seems like what we're seeing is a shift from gore of gore's sake that was popular in the late 2000s- ish and sort of moving to social commentary that's a more sophisticated type of dread. Okay, if you had to pick one to watch this year, what would it be? One would be A Quiet Place, 100 %. Okay, you heard it here first. I'm going to be queuing it up right now. 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