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."

Amy Adams

This combined parody of 1950s psychodramas, 1960s beach movies, and 1980s slasher films features none other than Amy Adams, who went on to become one of the highest-paid actresses in history. Adams plays Marvel Ann in Psycho Beach Party (2000), the girlfriend of a college dropout named Starcat. The film is based on a play of the same name directed by Robert Lee King.