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Ariana Grande And Dalton Gomez Re-Created The "Creature From The Black Lagoon" Movie Posters For Halloween, And It's Hands-Down The Best Celeb Couple Costume

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As you all know, Ariana Grande loves playing dress-up.

Ariana at the Grammys, she wears a puffy gray dress with princess gloves

In 2019, the singer literally spent five hours in prosthetic makeup for a Twilight Zone-inspired pig face look.

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Buuuuuut, I think it's safe to say she might have outdone even herself this year.

Photo of Ariana as a judge on the voice, she wears a fringed two-piece set
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On this precious Hallow's Eve, the singer paid tribute to the classic black-and-white sci-fi horror flick Creature from the Black Lagoon. She captioned her Instagram and Twitter posts with a simple black heart emoji.

The film, which stars Julia Adams as Kay Lawrence and Richard Carlson as Dr. David Lawrence, centers on a terrifying amphibious humanoid creature named the Gill-man — or, simply, the Creature.

Original "Creature From The Black Lagoon" poster featuring all the stars names and multiple graphics
Courtesy Everett Collection

In Ariana's tribute, the 28-year-old updated the movie's poster to Miss Creature from the Black Lagoon. In the credits, you can see the writing, "Starring Ariana Grande" and "featuring Dalton Gomez as Handsome Scuba Man." She even includes an homage to the original poster's tagline: "Amazing! Startling! Shocking!"

Ariana's poster version of "Miss Creature From The Black Lagoon"

The "POV" singer even credits the artists who helped put her look together, including her hairstylist Josh Liu, makeup artist and prosthetics specialist Julie Hassett, photographer and designer Katia Temkin, eye makeup artist Ash K Holm, stylist Mimi Cuttrell, and prosthetics assistants Ally McGillicuddy and Cici Andersen.

Ariana Grande / Twitter

The series of photos also depicts Miss Creature drinking wine in the lagoon and showing off her fresh manicure.

Ariana drinks wine as Miss Creature

Who cares if she terrorizes citizens and marine biologists! She looks good doing it!

Ariana Grande / Twitter

In another poster, she actually enlists the help of her husband Dalton, who poses with a fishnet in the main graphic and kneels with fishing and scuba gear in the right side of the image.

Another "Miss Creature From The Black Lagoon" poster featuring Dalton and a larger-than-life Miss Creature

Whew! Now THAT'S how you do a Halloween costume as a celebrity!!! Everyone else can respectfully take notes.

Ariana Grande / Twitter

It goes without saying that the artists who worked with Ariana absolutely killed it, and I simply cannot imagine how much time and effort it took to put it all together.

Photo of the original Creature from the movie

I mean, if the Twilight Zone look from 2019 is any indication (featuring just face prosthetics that took five hours), this look (which also includes face paint, hand prosthetics, and body makeup) must have been at least double that! Anyway, just conjecture, but so beyond worth it!

Courtesy Everett Collection, Ariana Grande / Twitter

In conclusion: I don't make the rules, but Halloween may as well be rebranded as Ariana Gran-DAY.

Ariana Grande

No, I won't apologize for this pun, good night.

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