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

Zach Galifianakis

As it turns out, yes, Zach Galifianakis has always looked like that. The actor had a small part in Below (2002), a submarine horror film written by Darren Aronofsky. Galifianakis played "Weird" Wally, one of the remaining survivors on a haunted submarine. The film received mixed reviews.

Viggo Mortensen

Over a decade before the first installment of The Lord of the Rings ever hit theaters, Viggo Mortensen played Edward "Tex" Sawyer, the central antagonist of Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III. The film was considered a critical failure, but entertained audiences nonetheless. Mortensen made a number of appearances in supporting roles throughout the 1990s until a breakthrough in 1999, when Peter Jackson cast the actor as Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.

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The More You Know

  • Each frame of the CGI scenes in James Cameron’s, Avatar (1/24 of a second) took an average of 47 hours to render.
  • "Dracula" was filmed in English during the day, and in Spanish at night.
  • Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn failed his driving test eight times.
  • For Dr. Strangelove, Peter Sellers was paid $1 million, 55 percent of the film’s budget.
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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.