The Dark Approach: Kate Hudson in The Skeleton Key

When dealing with the supernatural, it's best to go boho.

Horror films often have a bad enough reputation as it is. When it comes to style in horror films... Wait, does such a thing even exist?  

It really doesn't, I suppose, because fashion and terror are hardly ever connected. What we are supposed to experience when watching a scary film (besides being scared), is being able to relate to the "every woman" protagonist, so that we can feel her fear. But is the "every woman" often just a casual dresser as she is depicted in most scary films? Do scary things not happen when you're well-dressed?

Apparently, if it involves ghosts, then yes.

The Skeleton Key (2005) does a pretty good job at combining casual and chic. Although Caroline Ellis (Kate Hudson), a hospice nurse who works at a plantation home in New Orleans, may seemingly not consider her "look" when getting dressed to care for an elderly man, she must subconsciously adapt to her environment. She deals with Hoodoo ghosts. What does this translate to, style-wise? Dark-boho-chic.

Costume designer Louise Frogley, though not necessarily a legend, has worked on the likes of Iron Man 3 (2013), Ocean's Thirteen (2007), The Rules of Attraction (2002), Traffic (2000), and countless others.

This is definitely a look to aspire to. 

The Dark Approach: Rebecca Hall in The Awakening

There's nothing quite like English countryside style.

When faced with a winter such as this one - a dull, dreary, rainy one - it's important to take inspiration from characters and films that are surrounded by the same horrible weather.

Last winter, the inspiration was mainly the White Witch from The Chronicles of Narnia. After all, there was a fair amount of snow to deal with.

This time though, inspiration will come in the form of Florence Cathcart (a.k.a. Rebecca Hall) in The Awakening (2011).

Florence is a ghost-buster from the 1920s, whose wardrobe rivals that of Miss G (though nothing quite reaches the same level of stylishness). She's smart, confident and ruthless, and her style reflects her strength during a period in time when women weren't perhaps as known for these traits as they are nowadays.

Her colour-scheme is perfection as well. Earth-tones and navy coats add the ideal touch to this vintage form of power-dressing.

If it weren't for the ghosts, I would envy Florence's life.