On Saturday, October 29 Los Flambardos is hosting the Halloween Masked Ball and although the theme this year is freaks, geeks and human marvels, anything goes.

It's time to get weird - the more outrageous and outlandish your outfit is, the better.

Organisers of the Masked Ball have made a list of their favourite outfits from over the years to inspire you to "get your freak on":

1. Be messy: when you’re really stuck, go for gore. It’s a sure-fire winner for sinners.

2. Clowns: they freak everybody out, even other clowns.

3. Pretty frocks and blood: cute, yet dangerous.

4. Get feral, go wild: act like an animal and howl at the moon, but please be house-trained.

5. Aliens: everyone seeks an otherworldly experience at the Halloween Masked Ball.

6. Fear and Loathing in Los Flambardos: literary or movie characters are always a good bet. The more underground the better – this isn’t World Book Day at school, you know.

7. Dare to bare: show a little, attract a lot - but remember this, it could get cold.

8. Be a devil: he has all the best tunes.

9. Seeing double: co-ordinating costumes might be more effort, but it’s oh so worth it. The only thing that freaks people out more than one dead-eyed doll is two dead-eyed dolls.

10. Orange: it’s the colour of insanity, according to Van Gogh. Who are we to argue with a man who cut off ears before Reservoir Dogs made lobe-lopping fashionable?

11. Light up: There’s nothing more shocking than electricity. Use your degree in electronics to make people’s hair stand on end.

12: Masks: Well, it is a Masked Ball.

13: Innocence lost: nothing’s more painful than seeing your childhood heroes fall from grace. Tigger likes to bounce to techno, and Pooh is sniffing after the honeys. It’s all too much to bear.

14: The droogs don’t work: get out of the Korova Milkbar and make up your rassoodocks what to do with the evening.

15: Yellow peril: paint yourself from head to toe. At least we hope he’s painted himself from head to toe, and that’s not his usual colour.

16: Fangs: not just the name of your favourite ’80s disco at the Masked Ball, fangs also allow you bite off more than you can chew.

17: Burlesque: less can be so much more.

The Halloween Masked Ball takes place on Saturday, October 29, at Flambards Theme Park, Helston.

More information is available online at maskedball.net.