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John Carver from Thanksgiving
In the 2023 slasher film Thanksgiving, after a Black Friday riot in Plymouth, Massachusetts ends in tragedy, the mysterious serial killer John Carver comes to town. His goal? To turn the townspeople into a Thanksgiving carving board, using creating instruments such as a meat tenderizer and turkey slicer. Make your own creepy pilgrim mask to put the finishing touch on this costume.
Jamie Hughes from Totally Killer
In Totally Killer, Jamie Hughes (Kiernan Shipka) is a rebellious teenage girl whose mother was murdered by a serial killer 35 years ago. As she’s chased by the same killer, she ends up hiding in her best friend’s science fair project, which happens to be a working time machine. She’s transported back to the year 1987. This is when Jamie realizes she has the opportunity to team up with the 16-year-old version of her mother to unmask the killer and change the course of history.
Amber Freeman from Scream (2022)
Amber Freeman (Mikey Madison) is an antagonist in the fifth Scream film, Scream (2022). The film takes place 25 years after the original Ghostface murders committed by Billy Loomis and Stu Macher. Now there’s a new generation of teenagers for a new Ghostface to target. Amber is a friend of the protagonist, Samantha Carpenter, but spoiler – she’s revealed as the Ghostface killer, along with her accomplice, Richie. Since Billy Loomis is Samantha’s father, the two antagonists plan to also target the legacy characters. Though in the end, with the help of former characters Sidney Prescott and Gale Weathers, Samantha takes Amber and Richie down.
Pearl from Pearl (2022)
Pearl is the main character from the A24 film by Ti West, and is played by Mia Goth. Pearl is the origin story of the previous film in West’s series, X.
Pearl is a character that is stuck living and working on her family’s farm in rural Texas. She longs for a glamorous life on the screen, like she sees in the movies and goes killer lengths to attempt to achieve this. Pearl’s usual attire consists of blue overalls, a blue shirt, and lace bows or a blue bandana. When she goes to audition for a film, she wears an all-red dress with puffy sleeves and a large blue denim bow.
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David from Bodies Bodies Bodies
David (played by Pete Davidson) is the host of a hurricane party in the A24 horror comedy Bodies Bodies Bodies. David brings together some of his closest friends, including Sophie and Alice, and their significant others to weather the storm. He’s combative from the start, especially with his girlfriend Emma and Alice’s boy toy Alex. Once the group begins to play a murder mystery game, the night quickly turns deadly. David’s death kicks off the whodunnit plot, so don’t be afraid to get creative with a little scar wax and plenty of fake blood to recreate his bloody slit throat demise.
Wayne from X
Wayne (played by Martin Henderson) is the producer behind The Farmer’s Daughters, the porn flick at the heart of Ti West’s Texas-based horror movie X. Wayne is a standard southern cowboy, with long curly hair, a twang, and a white cowboy hat. He is the older boyfriend of Maxine, who he left his previous wife for. Wayne wears a pretty generic outfit with dark jeans and a white hat, but his costume also includes a gold watch, which speaks to his larger aspirations. During the film, he also shows that he wears a pair of extremely revealing skivvies under his jeans, so if you’re going for authenticity, you may want to invest in a set of men’s white bikini underwear.
Maxine from X
Maxine (played by Mia Goth) is an up-and-coming adult film star in Ti West’s X. Maxine is a small-town girl with big dreams who follows her boyfriend to a secluded farm in Texas to shoot a porn movie with co-stars Bobby-Lynne and Jackson that is supposed to be her big break. Things don’t go quite to plan, however, and Maxine and the others find themselves fighting for their lives instead of hitting it big. Maxine has a very appropriately-70s look about her. She begins the film wearing a striped tube top and shorts, while later changing into denim shortalls and boots, both of which are part of her film costume. She also wears stark blue eye shadow and has freckles around her right eye and cheek, which you can mimic with a brown makeup pencil.
Jackson from X
Jackson (played by Kid Cudi) is the male lead in The Farmer’s Daughters, the porn movie at the heart of Ti West’s horror film X. Jackson is a Vietnam War veteran who heads to a secluded Texas farm to make an adult film along with fellow actors Bobby-Lynne and Maxine. Jackson served as a Marine and still wears his dog tags. When trying to recreate his look from the film, there are a few ways you can choose to go about it. By focusing more on the colors used (a pale yellow shirt and light blue suit), you may have more options available to you. You could also go for a men’s disco costume in a similar color. And if you’re really committed to portraying Jackson perfectly, and are willing to shell out to do so, you might even find a vintage leisure suit in a matching color.
Glen Lantz from Nightmare on Elm Street
Glen Lantz (played by an early-career Johnny Depp) is one of the protagonists of the classic 80s slasher fic Nightmare on Elm Street. He is the boyfriend of Nancy, the films main hero and the one who ultimately finds out how to defeat Freddy Kreuger. Although Glen supports his girlfriend and believes her when nobody else does, he ends up falling prey to Kreuger in one of the film’s most spectacular deaths.
Glen has several looks throughout the movie but the most iconic is the outfit he’s wearing right before he falls into Freddy’s clutches for the last time. A feathered brunette wig (or your own hair and some pomade) will give you his hairstyle. His top is a jersey-style sweatshirt that has been cut to bare his midriff, which you can easily recreate with a white pullover, blue fabric paint, and blue iron on numbers. All you have to do is paint stripes around the shoulders, iron on the number 10 and cut the sweater into a crop top.
Grey sweats, Nike socks, and white 80s-style trainers finish off the look. You can accessorize with a pair of large silver headphones. And, if you want to go for a post-Freddy Glen, you can add in some fake blood as well.