Welcome to Days 8 of Spooky Season!! Recently, I watched Deadpool & Wolverine, and it was jam-packed with cameos! It made me think about all of the cameos I saw and loved in the horror genre. So today, I am sharing some of my favorite cameos in horror films. I hope you enjoy and let me know your favorite horror movie cameos! (SPOILER ALERT!!)

Jason Mewes And Kevin Smith As Jay And Silent Bob – Scream 3

Synopsis (provided by IMDb.com): While Sidney (Neve Campbell) and her friends visit the Hollywood set of Stab 3, the third film based on the Woodsboro murders, another Ghostface killer rises to terrorize them.

Jay and Silent Bob are an iconic stoner duo who have been kicking a** and taking names since 1994. In Scream 3, as Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox) was being kicked off the set of the latest Stab movie, she runs into a group of tourists being escorted around the movie studio. Among that group were Jay and Silent Bob, who mistook Gale for news anchor, Connie Chung. Jay even asked her how Maury was before Gale flipped him off and walked away. When I first watched Scream 3, I had no idea who these guys were, but now I love seeing their cameo here. It’s so funny and random!

Anthony Head As Man In Street Who Greets Todd After Competition – Sweeney Todd

Synopsis (provided by IMDb.com): The legendary tale of a barber who returns from wrongful imprisonment to 1840s London, bent on revenge for the rape and death of his wife, and resumes his trade while forming a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant.

Anthony Head is mostly known in the horror community as Rupert Giles in the popular monster show, Buffy The Vampire Slayer. He’s also no stranger to musicals as he starred as Nathan Wallace/The Repo Man in Repo! The Genetic Opera. He was supposed to have a singing role as one of Sweeney Todd’s (Johnny Depp) victims. However the song was cut, so his part was also cut down to a cameo as Man In Street Who Greets Todd After Competition (yes, that’s how he’s credited on IMDb). It’s still a very nice treat to Buffy and Repo fans to see him converse with Todd for a minute.

Linnea Quigley As Ballerina Lady – Night Of The Demons (2009)

Synopsis (provided by IMDb.com): A group of kids go to a Halloween party, only to have to face down a group of demons.

In the original Night Of The Demons, Linnea Quigley played Suzanne, a flirtatious, vain beauty who wanted to have a good time and party with lots of boys. In this film, she donned a similar pink costume and passed out candy to the trick or treaters as the Ballerina Lady. If you didn’t recognize her at first, I’m sure it hit you after she pulled her signature bend-over move that helped her and her friend Angela (Amelia Kinkade) steal party supplies at the store. I love that the remake had a throwback to the original film in the form of legendary scream queen, Linnea Quigley!

Chris Sarandon As Jay Dee – Fright Night (2011)

Synopsis (provided by IMDb.com): A new neighbor moves in next to Charley (Anton Yelchin), who discovers that he is an ancient vampire who preys on the community. Can he save his neighborhood from the creature with the help of the famous “vampire killer,” Peter Vincent (David Tennant)?

In the original Fright Night, Chris Sarandon played the suave and sophisticated vampire, Jerry Dandridge. In this film, we’re given a passing-of-the-torch kind of situation. After Charley’s house was burned down by his next door neighbor, Jerry, Charley got in the car and fled with his mother and girlfriend. After Jerry stopped their car, they were rammed by Jay Dee and when he went to berate them, he was stopped by Jerry. Jay Dee did his best to flee, but Jerry pulled him back out of his car and killed him. It was a great cameo and I love the fact that his character’s name was a nod to his character in the original film!

Marilyn Burns As Verna Carson – Texas Chainsaw

Synopsis (provided by IMDb.com): A young woman travels to Texas to collect an inheritance. Little does she know that an encounter with a chainsaw-wielding killer is part of the reward.

Marilyn Burns got her start in the horror genre as the final girl, Sally Hardesty in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. In this sequel, she played the matriarch of the demented chainsaw-wielding cannibal family, Verna Carson. At the end of the film, young Heather (Alexandria Daddario) finally read Verna’s letter to her and learned about her family. We get to hear Burns’ voice as she read the letter and we see her writing it on her deathbed. I love that she got to return to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise, and the fact that this was one of her last performances before her passing makes this cameo so much more beautiful and heartbreaking.