There are a lot of spooky things about Halloween: scary movies, Halloween decorations that jump out at you when you walk by, or finding yourself on your last piece of candy...
But when it comes to the truly terrifying stuff, offensive costumes top that list — especially when they're worn by celebs.
Come take a look at the controversial costumes these celebs are still haunted by.
It was one thing for the actress to go as "Crazy Eyes" from Orange is the New Black, but something else entirely for her to dress up in blackface.
She ended up apologizing profusely for the whole thing.
"I don't even know how to talk about it because it's such a sensitive topic. It makes me so sad to think that I was that dumb. I learned a big lesson."
The supermodel is known for absolutely crushing it at Halloween, but when she went as the Hindu goddess Kali in 2008, some say that she missed the mark.
In fact, some Hindu leaders were so offended by her costume choice that they demanded that she apologize. She never did.
With all the crazy stunts she's pulled over the years, it's hard to be surprised by Snooki anymore.
But she definitely had people up in arms when she dressed up as a missing child on a milk carton.
When will celebs ever learn?? "Sexy Indian" costumes are never going to be received well.
It didn't help that husband John Legend dressed as a cowboy, making it an "Indian and cowboys" theme.
This maybe would have been okay, had it not been during the middle of the ebola epidemic that killed more than 5,000 people in West Africa.
Definitely missed the mark, guys.
In 2011, the actor went as Kayne West by painting his body in dark brown paint. Not cool.
The next year, he proved that he hadn't learned his lesson by going as Gandhi in brown face paint.
"I've gotten in trouble for ... a few of my costumes in the past and I wasn't aware that I was offending people, but that wasn't my intention at all, and I really," he said in a video.
"I haven't apologized yet, but I wanted to apologize for that. And that won't be happening again."
The Pretty Little Liars actress caused major outrage when she dressed up as Cecil the Lion who, at the time in 2015, had recently been hunted by an American dentist.
She ended up apologizing on social media the very next day.
The controversy over the family's costume was almost as bad as the drama that surrounded JWoww and Roger's split.
Basically, fans claimed that dressing up as the characters from the Disney film was considered cultural appropriation.
Yikes. Where do we even begin with everything that's wrong with this image?
People were offended everywhere, including on Twitter, where one person called him the "least self-aware celebrity on earth."
YouTube star, Tana Mongeau, has experienced her fair share of controversy over the years (especially when she was with Jake Paul).
But Tana really hit a new low when she thought it was appropriate to go as a "sexy" version of Jojo Siwa.
She's also 17...
At the time of Tana's photo, she was also 15, which means that Tana's costume was sexualizing a minor...
Not a good look.
The reality TV mogul was accused of being offensive by dressing up as the singer Aaliyah for two main reasons.
For one, people pointed out that the singer was a black woman and Kardashian is not.
"Legend or not Aaliyah is a black woman and you’re not. It’s offensive and you shouldn’t push this limit, but ok..." one wrote.
Yikes. When Ashley put on her costume, she didn't stop to consider that Day of the Dead is actually a Mexican tradition that honors people's dead relatives.
"THERE'S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN REPRESENTING AND APPROPRIATING A CULTURE," one person wrote on Tisdale's image from 2016.
If you thought Hilary Duff could do no wrong, think again.
In 2016, she and her ex Jason Walsh caused quite the stir by dressing up as a pilgrim and a Native American stereotype.
"I am SO sorry to people I offended with my costume. It was not properly thought through and I am truly, from the bottom of my [heart] sorry," Duff tweeted.
