Hollywood A-Listers Who Got Their Big Break in Horror Films

Brad Pitt

Before Brad Pitt was a bonafide Hollywood hunk, he played an angsty teen doing his best to survive in the slasher flick Cutting Class (1989). Pitt portrays Dwight Ingalls, the basketball star of his high school who nearly becomes the victim of a serial killer. Sadly, critics panned the movie, calling it "good campy fun with some of the dumbest scenes you can grab from a slasher of this decade."

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The More You Know

  • Viggo Mortensen had no intention of working on The Lord of the Rings until his son begged him to do it.
  • The names of the taxi driver and the policeman in everybody’s favourite Yuletide outing, It’s A Wonderful Life, are Bert and Ernie. The writers working on Sesame Street at the time claim it’s merely a coincidence.
  • In 2002, Steven Spielberg finally finished college after a 33-year hiatus. He turned in Schindler’s List for his student film requirement.
  • There’s a 20 year age gap between Sam Neill and Laura Dern in Jurassic Park, with Laura aged only 26 during filming.
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