--- title: Bruce Willis Wore a Shining Costume to a Halloween Party description: Samuel L Jackson shared the costume Bruce Willis wore to M. Night Shyamalan's party canonical: https://time.com/5002211/bruce-willis-halloween-costume/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-10-30T15:42:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:47:26.587Z og:title: Bruce Willis Wore the Scariest Costume to a Halloween Party og:description: Samuel L Jackson shared the costume Willis wore to M. Night Shyamalan's party og:url: https://time.com/5002211/bruce-willis-halloween-costume/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd6ab53713ea9b272/6988e3d5929fad9ac2bee44c/gettyimages-867673892.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Celebrity Sightings in Philadelphia - October 28, 2017 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Bruce Willis Wore the Scariest Costume to a Halloween Party twitter:description: Samuel L Jackson shared the costume Willis wore to M. Night Shyamalan's party twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd6ab53713ea9b272/6988e3d5929fad9ac2bee44c/gettyimages-867673892.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Bruce Willis Is Almost Unrecognizable In His Highly Successful Halloween Costume ## Video: This Year's 7 Hottest Halloween Costumes [Watch (HLS stream): This Year's 7 Hottest Halloween Costumes](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/lWECB9t9.m3u8) (1:51)  _Published 2017-10-16. This Year's 7 Hottest Halloween Costumes_ by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Oct 30, 2017 3:42 PM UTC  PHILADELPHIA, PA - OCTOBER 28: Actor Bruce Willis and assistant Stephen J. Eads are seen arriving at film director M. Night Shyamalan's Halloween party 'Shyamaween' on October 28, 2017 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Gilbert Carrasquillo/GC Images) PHILADELPHIA, PA - OCTOBER 28: Actor Bruce Willis and assistant Stephen J. Eads are seen arriving at film director M. Night Shyamalan's Halloween party 'Shyamaween' on October 28, 2017 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Gilbert Carrasquillo/GC Images)Gilbert Carrasquillo—GC Images by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Oct 30, 2017 3:42 PM UTC Samuel L. Jackson went to a [Halloween](http://time.com/4994332/halloween-funniest-viral-pranks/?xid=homepage) party and all we got was this amazing photo of Bruce Willis in costume. Jackson and his _Unbreakable_ co-star were both attending director M. Night Shyamalan’s [Halloween](http://time.com/4999419/starbucks-zombie-frappucino-halloween-reactions/?xid=homepage) party in Philadelphia over the weekend, when Jackson snapped a photo of Willis in costume and posted it to Twitter. Willis’s costume—complete with wig, knee socks—was so good it [took a moment](https://twitter.com/Quoylette/status/924475196471414790) for fans to recognize the star. Willis, and a man [reported](http://metro.co.uk/2017/10/29/bruce-willis-and-his-assistant-hilariously-dress-as-the-shinings-grady-twins-for-m-night-shyamalans-shyamaween-party-7035817/) to be his assistant, Stephen J. Eads, hit Shyamalan’s soiree dressed up as the frightening Grady twins from Stanley Kubrick’s classic 1980 horror film, _The Shining_ (a.k.a. the scariest movie ever). Willis and Eads wore matching wigs, dresses, and Mary Janes to complete their eerie outfits. While Willis opted not to fully commit to the costume by shaving his beard, the overall look was completely unsettling and downright hilarious, which is the hallmark of a very successful [Halloween costume](http://time.com/5000373/halloween-game-of-thrones-night-king-olympics-costume/). > [](https://twitter.com/SamuelLJackson/status/924453546082349056) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5002211/bruce-willis-halloween-costume/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5002211/bruce-willis-halloween-costume/"},"headline":"Bruce Willis Is Almost Unrecognizable In His Highly Successful Halloween Costume","datePublished":"2017-10-30T15:42:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:47:26.587Z","description":"Samuel L Jackson shared the costume Willis wore to M. Night Shyamalan's party","url":"https://time.com/5002211/bruce-willis-halloween-costume/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","Samuel L. 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