The New Scream Queen (and King)

As a teenage girl who is very into watching movies, horror is probably my favorite movie genre—and not just during Halloween. Watching the more popular horror movies nowadays, I’ve noticed something; I see the same faces over and over again. We can’t say we haven’t noticed Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter in almost every Tim Burton movie, or Anya Taylor-Joy in a psychological thriller, or in high-stress films. The two that stick out to me the most in horror films are Mia Goth and Bill Skarsgård. Why are they so good for being recycled in horror movies? What is it about them that makes viewers not get tired of their faces and not feel like they’re overused? I think it has something to do with their features that give them that horror movie “aesthetic.”