Addams family characters

They're creepy and they're kooky and they give you squad goals.

Raul Julia and Anjelica Huston in The Addams Family (1991)

Halloween is just around the corner, and if you’re a fan of all things spooky and delightful, why not consider dressing up as one of the iconic characters from the Addams Family?

The Addams Family

It might not be creepy, but it certainly is kooky that an Addams Family movie is able to call itself an Oscar nominee. This iteration of the spooky family's

Amber: We dress up as a family every year. This year we choose to be the Addams Family because the theme fit our family dynamic well. What you see here are...

Gomez Florencia Addams is the patriarch of The Addams Family. He was created by cartoonist Charles Addams for The New Yorker magazine in the 1930s. As with all of the members of the family, in the original cartoons he had no name. When the 1964 television series The Addams Family was being developed, Charles Addams suggested naming the character either Repelli or Gomez. Addams left the final choice up to actor John Astin, who chose Gomez. He enjoys cigars and has been smoking them ever since…