Because you like Wendell White in L.A. Confidential

A machete-wielding mass-murderer, Jason Voorhees is a terrifying blank slate. See them in Friday the 13th.

Gregor Samsa is an ordinary man in an abnormal predicament. See them in The Metamorphosis.

It turns out Dracula's son Alucard has some pretty severe daddy issues. See them in Castlevania.

Sidney Prescott is trying to return to life as a regular, teenage girl – one who doesn't cause rooms to go silent when she walks in. See them in Scream.

Beware! Anton Chigurh carries a coin with him, which he forces his victims to flip to decide whether they will live or die. See them in No Country for Old Men.

Lying is the most fun a girl like Alice can have without taking her clothes off. See them in Closer.

Hotheaded and arrogant, Kaneda is nevertheless fiercely protective of the biker gang he leads. See them in Akira.

A born psychopath, don't expect Michael Myers to understand the difference between right and wrong. See them in Halloween.

An underdog with nothing left to lose, Donnie Creed has everything to prove. See them in Creed.

Terence Fletcher is a brutal and unflinchingly strict music teacher hell-bent on whipping his students into shape. See them in Whiplash.

Nadine Franklin likes to wallow in her misery almost as much as she likes to torment her mother. See them in The Edge of Seventeen.

Just call Jeff Lebowski The Dude. Or His Dudeness, Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into that whole brevity thing. See them in The Big Lebowski.