Wunmi Mosaku's Annie movie costume from Sinners on display...

In 2025's supernatural horror, Sinners, Michael B. Jordan earned himself an Oscar for playing the dual roles of identical twin brothers, 'Smoke' and 'Stack Moore', who return to their hometown in the Jim Crow South. After working for the Chicago mob, they come back and open a juke joint for the local Black community in the 1932 Mississippi Delta, but one night vampires come a-calling. In Director Ryan Coogler's film, Wunmi Mosaku plays 'Annie', Smoke's estranged wife and a Hoodoo practitioner who uses her knowledge of herbs to physically and spiritually protect her community.

Annie movie costume worn by Wunmi Mosaku

in Sinners

This screen-worn costume was photographed on display at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on October 4, 2026 (although, jewelry, belt and shoes shown here are non-original).

Ruth E. Carter is Costumer Designer on Ryan Coogler's horror and the legendary artist was nominated for an Academy Award for her designs.

Interestingly whilst main cast members received custom looks for their characters, background extras and large ensemble cast crowds wore repurposed 1920s and 1930s period garments gathered for Marvel Studio's planned, but aborted, Blade movie reboot.

Co-chairs and CEOs of Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group, Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy, really helped champion films like Sinners and Weapons, helping to bring new, original stories to the big screen. With their departure after the Paramount-Skydance merger, and now with James Gunn and Peter Safran out at DC Studios, you have to wonder if we'll get a lot less original films and shows, and more unoriginal content designed to appeal to mass audiences.

Anyway, be sure to check out more of Ruth E. Carter's costume designs on display, from films like Black Panther, Wakanda Forever, Coming 2 America, Dolemite Is My Name and Selma, to name a few.

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Tilda Swinton's Madame Blanc movie costume from Suspiria on display...

To celebrate Tilda Swinton's birthday I thought I'd share her screen-worn costume from 2018's supernatural horror, Suspiria. Luca Guadagnino's film is inspired by the 1977 Italian film of the same name and sees an American dancer (Dakota Johnson) enroll in a prestigious dance academy in Berlin run by a coven of witches. Tilda Swinton's 'Madame Blanc' is the lead choreographer and a high-ranking leader of the supernatural clandestine coven.

Madame Blanc movie costume worn by Tilda Swinton

in Suspiria

This free-flowing movie costume was photographed on display at The Horror Show exhibition at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles on October 4, 2026.

Giulia Piersanti is Costume Designer on Director Luca Guadagnino's psychological horror film.

Madame Blanc's glamorous look resembles religious vestments and identifies her as one of the leading figures in the coven's ancient hierarchy.

Tilda Swinton fans can also enjoy her White Witch costume from Narnia's The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, her Ancient One costume from Doctor Strange, her film costume from The French Dispatch and her Okja movie costume on display.

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Anthony Hopkin's Hannibal Lecter movie costume from The Silence of the Lambs on display...

Halloween may be over for this year, but the frights keep coming with this screen-worn costume from 1991's The Silence of the Lambs. Director Jonathan Demme adapts Thomas Harris's 1988 novel of the same name for the big screen and the psychological horror thriller sees Jodie Foster star as a young FBI trainee named 'Clarice Starling' who is hunting the 'Buffalo Bill' serial killer. In order to catch the killer, who likes to skin his female victims, Starling seeks the advice of Anthony Hopkins 'Dr. Hannibal Lecter', a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer himself, who is imprisoned at the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. The film garnered seven Academy Award nominations and scored five Oscar wins, including for Best Picture, Best Directing, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Actor and Actress in a Leading Role. 

Hannibal Lecter movie costume worn by Anthony Hopkins

in The Silence of the Lambs

This screen-used asylum straightjacket costume on a hand truck with augmented restraints and custom muzzle from the movie was photographed on display at The Horror Show exhibition currently at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on October 4, 2026.

Legendary Costume Designer Colleen Atwood was responsible for helping to craft Hannibal Lecter's iconic look.

Hockey mask designer Ed Cubberly created Lecter's infamous mask, a fiberglass piece left uncoated to evoke dried, taut skin.

Anthony Hopkins fans can also enjoy a closer look at his Odin movie costume from Thor: The Dark World, his Hitchcock movie costume and his film costume from The Wolfman on display.

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Life-size Xenomorph creature model from Alien: Romulus on display...

In 2024 Director Fede Alvarez went back to basics for a new generation of viewers with his installment in the Alien film franchise, Alien: Romulus, pitting a ragtag group of young colonists against one of the most deadliest life forms in the universe. Hoping to improve their chances to escape their mining colony lives and indentured work contracts for mega corporation Weyland-Yutani, a young orphaned colonist, her malfunctioning android and friends attempt to scavenge a derelict space station which unbeknownsts to them has recovered a large cocoon from the wreckage of the USCSS Nostromo. Soon they are facing the terrifying acid-for-blood, razor-toothed, multi-jawed, whip-tailed, armoured killing machines in space (where no one can hear you scream).

Life-size Xenomorph model from Alien: Romulus

This towering life-size Special Effects model from Alien: Romulus was captured on display as part of The Horror Show exhibition at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles on October 4, 2026.

Visual effects company Legacy Effects was responsible for the creation of this Xenomorph creature which really does look impressively extraterrestrial and otherworldly, and not just a man in a monster suit, with Shane Mahan, Lindsay Macgowan, J. Alan Scott, Darnell Isom, Scott Patton, Rob Ramsdell and Christopher Swift responsible for its design and fabrication.

Fans of this new installment in the Alien film franchise can also enjoy these screen-used costumes and props from Alien: Romulus on display at Hollywood's El Capitan Theatre during the movies' theatrical release.

Make sure you also check out a screen-worn Xenomorph costume from James Cameron's Aliens previously on display at Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park in Orlando, Florida.

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Freddy Krueger costume and prop from A Nightmare on Elm Street film franchise on display...

In Writer/Director Wes Craven's 1984 supernatural horror, A Nightmare on Elm Street, a new iconic horror villain was born in the form of 'Freddy Krueger' played by Robert Englund. In the slasher film a group of Elm Street teenagers are targeted in their dreams by the undead child killer as revenge for their parents burning him alive in an act of vigilante justice. Freddy's burn-scarred face, fedora hat, striped sweater and bladed glove make him one of horror's most recognizable killers.

Freddy Krueger movie costume worn by Robert Englund

in A Nightmare on Elm Street and screen-used TV puppet prop

from A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

This screen-used costume and prop were captured on display at The Horror Show exhibition at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on October 4, 2026.

Dana Lynn was Costume Designer on the movie, whilst Judy Graham was responsible for crafting Freddy's iconic red and green striped sweater.

Jim Doyle was the Mechanical Special Effects Designer tasked with creating Freddy Krueger's iconic and deadly knife glove.

David B. Miller was the Special Effects Makeup Artist responsible for designing Freddy's visually arresting disfigured burn-scarred look.

Meanwhile the "Welcome to Prime Time" television animatronic puppet prop designed by Anton Tremblay and made by Image Engineering is from 1987's A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors.

Infamously in the third movie in the franchise, the transformed TV set attacks and kills Penelope Sudrow's 'Jennifer Caulfield' after she falls asleep watching television.

Be sure to also check out the screen-used movie costume and props from 2010's A Nightmare on Elm Street remake in which Jackie Earle Haley took up the mantle of Freddy Krueger.

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Jamie Clayton's Pinhead movie costume from 2022's Hellraiser on display...

In Director David Bruckner's 2022 supernatural horror fantasy entry in the Hellraiser film franchise, Jamie Clayton stars as the "Hell Priest" and leader of the otherworldly Cenobites, a sadomasochistic group of humanoid beings who thrive on pain being pleasure. Streamer Hulu's reboot follows a young woman struggling with addiction named 'Riley McKendry' (Odessa A'zion) who comes into possession of an ancient, shape-changing puzzle box, named the Lament Configuration, that opens a portal to another dimension and summons the Cenobites who crave blood, torture and pain. When Riley's life crosses the path of a long-missing hedonistic millionaire and art collector, her friends and family soon start becoming victims of the sadistic Cenobites.

Pinhead movie costume worn by Jamie Clayton

in Hellraiser

This screen-used costume was photographed on display as part of The Horror Show exhibition currently running at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on October 4, 2026.

Keith Thompson was Lead Concept Designer on the movie, especially on the Cenobites costumes, with Special Effects by Josh Russell and Sierra Spence for Russell FX.

The iconic Pinhead character first appears in Clive Barker's 1987 cult classic Hellraiser as a nameless Hell Priest among the Cenobites. For the original look of the extra-dimensional beings, the film's Writer/Director was influenced by the queer fetish and body modification subcultures of the era like New York City hard S&M clubs, all black leather, piercings and chains.

The 2022 reimagining of pinhead is a more fleshy look of sinew, skin and bone, with pearls added to the horror icon's signature pin-pierced scalp look.

Be sure to compare this new look to Pinhead's costume from Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth previously on display at the Planet Hollywood Cafe in Las Vegas.

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John Cameron Mitchell's Hedwig and the Angry Inch movie costume on display...

In 2001 John Cameron Mitchell wrote, directed and starred in the big screen adaptation of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. The rock musical comedy-drama is based on Mitchell and Stephen Trask's 1998 stage musical of the same name and tells the story of a gender-queer punk-rock singer from East Berlin named 'Hedwig Robinson' who tours the U.S. with her band, the Angry Inch, as she recounts her life story and follows her former lover/band-mate, 'Tommy Gnosis', who stole her songs and became a rockstar. Hedwig was once a teenage gay boy named 'Hansel Schmidt' who fell in love with an American soldier and was forced to undergo sex reassignment surgery in order to leave Communist East Germany for the West as his wife, unfortunately the surgery went wrong. Abandoned in a Kansas trailer park by her husband on their first anniversary, she creates a new persona for herself with wigs and clothes and returns to her first love of music.

Hedwig Robinson movie costume

worn by John Cameron Mitchell

in Hedwig and the Angry Inch

This glam rock screen-worn costume made with synthetic and human platinum blonde hair, satin, vinyl and rhinestones was photographed on display at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles on October 4, 2026 (the exhibit features a non-original wig and microphone).

Arianne Phillips is Costume Designer on the film adaptation and Mike Potter is responsible for Hair Design and Wig Styling.

For more of the Costume Designer's work you can also check out these A Complete Unknown movie costumes, these Don't Worry Darling movie costumes, these Once Upon a Time in Hollywood movie costumes, these Nocturnal Animals movie costumes and these screen-used costumes from the Kingsman movies.

Meanwhile fans of John Cameron Mitchell can also enjoy his Joe Exotic costume from TV's Joe vs. Carole series on display.

I'm a huge fan of this now cult classic film, so to see this costume on display at the museum was a real treat.

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Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt's movie costumes from Interview with the Vampire on display...

In Director Neil Jordan's 1994 horror film, Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice writes the screenplay based on her 1876 novel of the same name. The vampiric story is recounted when in 1991 a San Francisco journalist named 'Daniel Molloy' (Christian Slater) interviews Brad Pitt's 'Louis de Pointe du Lac' who claims he is a vampire. Formerly a wealthy 18th-century plantation owner, following the death of his pregnant wife Louis becomes a drunkard and is turned into a vampire by the French vampire 'Lestat de Lioncourt' in 1791 New Orleans. Louis soon regrets being turned into a blood-sucking vampire, whilst Lestat revels in the killing. The film chronicles their time together including the turning of a young child named 'Claudia' (Kirsten Dunst).

Lestat de Lioncourt movie costume worn by Tom Cruise

and Louis de Pointe du Lac movie costume worn by Brad Pitt

in Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

This duo of iconic screen-worn costumes were captured on display at The Horror Show exhibition at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles on October 4, 2026.

Sandy Powell is Costume Designer on the gothic horror that required a wardrobe that spanned the 18th and 19th centuries. Louis was styled in warm neutrals, floral vests and tailored tailcoats, whilst Lestat embraced elaborate Victorian suits befitting his aristocratic 18-century roots.

You can see more of her design work with these Oscar-nominated Cinderella movie costumes, these Oscar-nominated Carol movie costumes and these Oscar-nominated Mary Poppins Returns movie costumes on display.

Tom Cruise fans can also check out his Oblivion movie costume, his Jack Reacher movie costume and car and his Top Gun: Maverick movie costumes.

Meanwhile Brad Pitt admirers can take a closer look at his Ad Astra movie costume and vehicle, his Allied film costumes and his Once Upon a Time in Hollywood movie costumes on display.

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