Kayako Saeki is the main antagonist of the Japanese horror movie series Ju-On, also known as The Grudge. She haunts the home that she once lived in, terrorizing anyone who tries to move in. She even faced off with Sadako Yamamura from Ringu in the Japanese crossover film Sadako vs Kayako.

In Us, Pluto is the tethered character for Jason Wilson (Evan Alex). He is Jason’s doppelganger who, along with a red jumpsuit, wears a white mask to hide the extensive burn scars on his face. Jason realizes that Pluto mirrors his movements, and figures out a way to use that to his advantage when Pluto and the rest of his group intrude the Wilson’s home and hold them captive.

Billy Peltzer (Zach Galligan) is the protagonist of Joe Dante’s Christmas horror classic Gremlins. He is a young man who is given a creature called a Mogwai for Christmas. He names it Gizmo, but discovers there are various strange rules to care for it. When he breaks them, he accidentally unleashes a wave on monsters called Gremlins on his small town.

Played by Agnes Mary Winstead (Kathy Bates) in American Horror Story: Roanoke, The Butcher is a centuries-old bloodthirsty woman responsible for the deaths of the original Roanoke colonists before taking her own life. She still haunts the land, demanding the bloody death of anyone who dares to settle there or wander in her forest. Agnes plays The Butcher in a modern-day horror TV reenactment about one couple who faced The Butcher and lived, but Agnes quickly becomes just as insane as the original Butcher. The Butcher wears traditional colonial garb stained in dirt, mud and blood.

Peter Graham (Alex Wolff) is a main character in Hereditary. He is a morosely withdrawn teenage pothead who begins to get signals from ghosts, to take on the aspects of someone who died. For this costume, don’t forget the nose bandage, which you can just make yourself with gauze and first-aid tape.

A modern witch with blood ties to both the Salem witches and the voodoo tribe, Queenie (Gabourey Sidibe) is the only person of color at Miss Robichaux’s Academy in American Horror Story: Coven. Queenie is sassy, confident, and possesses the abilities of a “human voodoo doll” – she can injure herself in order to harm others, while feeling no pain herself. She enters Miss Robichaux’s Academy alongside Madison Montgomery, Zoe Benson, Misty Day, and is taught by the Supreme Fiona Goode. Through the trials of AHS: Coven, Queenie eventually ends up on the Witches’ Council and makes an appearance in the sister series, American Horror Story: Hotel.