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

Jennifer Connelly

Before her Oscar-winning days, this model-turned-actress starred in one of Dario Argento's strangest works to date: the Italian horror film Phenomena (1985), released under the title Creepers in the U.S. Connelly plays Jennifer Corvino, a young girl who possesses the psychic ability to communicate with insects. NYT reviewer Jon Pareles said that the best acting in the film is "by an expressive, resourceful chimpanzee—definitely the year's Best Supporting Primate."

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.