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."

The More You Know

Stanley Kubrick had all the sets and models from the filming of 2001: A Space Odyssey destroyed to prevent a sequel from being made.
The real Frank Abagnale Jr. appears in Catch Me If You Can as the French policeman who arrests Leo.
The location of Tony Stark’s mansion in Iron Man is the same cliff from Planet of the Apes where the Statue of Liberty is sticking out from the sand.
Will Smith wanted to adopt the German Shepherd in I Am Legend.

Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.