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

Charlize Theron

If you blink, you might miss Charlize Theron in her first film role: 1995's Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest. Theron was cast in an uncredited role as "Eli's Follower." Surprisingly, the movie wasn't as bad as critics had anticipated. TV Guide wrote that the story "actually improved over time to the point where this third installment is a creditable if far-fetched chiller."

The More You Know

Novelist and screenwriter Nick Hornby is brother-in-law to novelist and screenwriter Robert Harris.
In the movie 'The Hangover', no effects or prosthetics were created for Stu's missing tooth. Actor Ed Helms never had an adult incisor grow, and his fake incisor was taken out for the parts of filming where Stu's tooth is missing.
The first toilet did not flush on the American big screen until 1960
In the movie Dredd, they slowed down a Justin Bieber song by 800 times to create the "slow motion" noise.

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