"30 Hollywood Stars Who Started Out in Horror Movies" Topic

"Horror movies often get a bad wrap -- too violent, too exploitative, too cliche, too many women walking around casually not wearing bras (because don't we all wear button downs half undone with nothing underneath?) -- but if we look at them a little closer, we see the great equalizer of the cinematic universe.

That's right. Horror movies are a place where many of the brightest stars in the Hollywood firmament once appeared early in their careers, including unexpected actors like Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Charlize Theron, George Clooney, Jon Stewart, and Katee Sackhoff. And these roles that need to be celebrated for the star-making turns they (maybe, probably, kinda) were.

Did you fall in love with Renée Zellweger singing "Sugarhigh" to you in Empire Records? Then light a jack-o-lantern for her terrorized prom goer in Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation, which was filmed before Empire, but released after. Bonus co-star? Matthew McConaughey, playing perhaps the most psychotic role of his career as Vilmer Slaughter. Do you swoon over George Clooney or stand in awe of his seemingly endless reservoir of screen talents? Then dig Return to Horror High out of moth balls and behold the majesty of his pre-ER mullet. But don't blink! He's a first kill. And yes, that is Marcia Brady erotically rubbing blood all over her body – for no reason! Think the new Carrie is Chloë Grace-Moretz's first brush with the horror cannon? Go back and re-watch The Amityville Horror from 2005 (above). Though we understand if you can't see past Ryan Reynolds' pre-ScarJo six-pack (24 pack?)…"
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You can't pump a thread like this without mentioning the MOST famous one of all, Jamie Lee Curtis of course.

I remember Johnny Depp in the orignal Freddy Kruger movie. It was even before his 21 Jump Street days.

Yeah Fanatik I remember that as well. When Depp was interviewed in Fangoria at the time he said he wanted to be a musician. And no Tom Hanks in He Knows Your Alone.
Lousy article I'm afraid

A young Clint Eastwood played an uncredited role as the pilot who drops napalm onto the giant spider in Tarantula.

wasn't Sigourney Weavers 1st role Alien?

and James Arness in the Thing?

Not to mention a number of directors who got their start with some cheapo little horror film.

Fess Parker, Leonard Nimoy in THEM!
Nimoy in the Brain Eaters