The Best Horror Movie Cameos From Horror Icons, Ranked

Scream follows a group of high school friends who are hunted and taken out one by one by a masked figure known as Ghostface.

In one scene, paranoid Principal Himbry glances out of the hallway to see the janitor, Fred, mopping the floors dressed in a red-and-green striped sweater and fedora. Fred is played by Scream director Wes Craven, dressed as Freddy Krueger from Craven's other horror classic, A Nightmare on Elm Street.

In Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, Laurie Strode has moved away from Haddonfield, IL, to a new home in California, only to be tormented once again by her serial killer/stalker/brother, Michael Myers.

Janet Leigh, who played Marion Crane in Psycho and is Jamie Lee Curtis's real-life mother, cameos in H20 as the secretary of the school that Strode principals. Leigh's character even drives the same car she did in Psycho.

After a genie with not-so-good intentions is accidentally released, it begins tormenting the person responsible in the 1997 horror film Wishmaster.

Wishmaster contains several slasher icon cameos, including Robert Englund (Freddy Krueger), Kane Hodder (Jason Voorhees), and Tony Todd (Candyman). Englund plays an antique collector, Hodder a security guard, and Todd a doorman named Johnny Valentine.

Special effects guru Tom Savini also has a small cameo.

Wes Craven's 1996 meta-horror slasher Scream is much-loved and totally creepy. A year after her mother's tragic end, Sidney Prescott and her friends find themselves tormented by a masked serial killer called Ghostface.

Keep an eye out for Linda Blair, best known for her role as Regan in The Exorcist, who cameos as a TV journalist trying to get a quote from Sidney.

Bill Murray has a surprising cameo as himself in the middle of Zombieland when mega-fan Tallahassee leads the group to Murray's mansion.

Surprised to find Murray alive and not a zombie, Tallahassee and his idol reenact a scene from the horror-comedy classic Ghostbusters. It's hard not to smile when he says, "Don't cross the streams!"

Heartthrob Johnny Depp had his film debut in the original The Nightmare on Elm Street as Nancy's boyfriend Glen Lantz, who suffers a very memorable (and bloody) end by the knifed hand of Freddy Krueger.

Despite Glen not surviving for the sequels, Depp does return to the franchise for a quick appearance in Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare as the host of a televised public service announcement who uses a frying pan and egg to show the harmful side effects of drugs. Krueger then knocks him out using the pan.